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Got you! Me too, he had the sweetest tone. Coltrane said of Getz, “let’s face it, if we could we’d all sound like him.”
Good take. The way I see this guitar is that Julian got to work with a great company to create his absolute dream guitar. A $7,000 instrument for a player of Julian's magnitude seems like a...
:welcome: "Inna Gadda Davida...." We had a drummer who used to play that drum solo just out of the blue. Audiences loved, the band just considered it a bonus break. Win-win! :cool:
Do you have a guitar that she made? I've heard very good things about her manouche jazz guitars.
maybe, but I've owned old Epi's w/unbroken Frequensators when I purchased them develop cracks while I owned them and I never use anything heavier than 13-56 gauge. whether the metal was already...
hah..thought you meant this cheers ps- funny i was just listening to getz- capt.marvel...with corea, stanley clarke and tony williams...huge getz fan
also the heavy gauge high tension strings of that vintage era probably contributed to that breakage..these days strings are lighter gauged and lower tension...big improvements in design and...
the old ones are made of brass which isn't the strongest metal to begin with, I don't know what they're using today, could be something as weak as pot metal or strong as steel, I have no idea.
yes hopefully the modern era asian made versions are less prone to breakage...and if they do, they are at least a common stock item these days..can be had for around 25$ the larger issue is some...
The guitar likely used on Midnight Blue, an L5 with a CC
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funny you should write that Joe D...as the epi frequensator ad copy read- greater clarity....truer tone..eliminates deadspots! cheers ps- & nice appreciation of maestro van eps and his old...
The cool sound of Stan Getz
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