Guitare,guitars,and music

Subject: Guitare,guitars,and music
From: little john cameron
Date: 18 May 02 - 02:35 PM

Somehow or another I came across this site,maybe it was in here.Anyway here it is.Great music on the jukebox.Click

Subject: RE: Guitare,guitars,and music
From: C-flat
Date: 18 May 02 - 03:06 PM

Superb site! Thanks for that ljc.

Subject: RE: Guitare,guitars,and music
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 18 May 02 - 05:38 PM

Wow! Feast your eyes at this site! Thanks John.

Subject: RE: Guitare,guitars,and music
From: 53
Date: 18 May 02 - 06:24 PM

Good to see some threads about guitars.

Subject: RE: Guitare,guitars,and music
From: Ebbie
Date: 18 May 02 - 07:07 PM

So Les Paul early on did play acoustic guitar. The subject came up on a thread a couple months back.

Subject: RE: Guitare,guitars,and music
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 18 May 02 - 07:38 PM

I keep going back and looking at these axes. Check out
Mark Twain's 1837 Martin
Eddie Lang's 1939 Gibson L4 Archtop
Clapton's 1934 D'Angelico
Crash Corrigan's 1936 Gibson SJ200 (first of its breed)
Django's '37 Gretsch Synchromatic.

Pure Pornography for Guitar Maniacs.

Subject: RE: Guitare,guitars,and music
From: C-flat
Date: 19 May 02 - 05:13 AM

Why can't they make instruments as beautiful as these anymore. Some of the early Martin and Gibsons are pure art.

Subject: RE: Guitare,guitars,and music
From: Mooh
Date: 19 May 02 - 08:17 AM

I agree that it feels like "they" don't make them like that anymore, but it's not really true. "They" has changed from the big names to the small shops. Scores of small shop builders are crafting weird, wonderful, innovative, classy guitars. We are very far removed from when such guitars and builders created the standards of build quality and design, but just as many luthiers practice their art today, refining the designs given them by their forebears. Such refinement however is getting out of reach for the casual (and even the pro) musician as prices are not what they were once upon a time.

That said, the guitars at Momi are as drool worthy as any, new or old, because they represent the leading edge of a cultural force. They changed the world, like the automobile, and cheap electricity.

Today's "envelop pushers" you ask? Grit Laskin's flat-tops and inlays, John Zeildler's (RIP, this week!) guitars combining flat-top and arch-top features, G&L Strat and Tele refinements (locking bridge saddles etc), among others.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: Guitare,guitars,and music
From: little john cameron
Date: 19 May 02 - 12:32 PM

Check Barbara Mandrells "Crutch" guitar. ljc.BTW,there is loads of music on this site as well.

Subject: RE: Guitare,guitars,and music
From: GUEST,van lingle
Date: 19 May 02 - 12:53 PM

Yeah Ebbie but I once read an interview where he said that back in the thirties when he was playing at a roadside barbecue stand that he removed the needle from the arm of a phonograph, wiring still attached and installed it in his acoustic guitar and used the record player as an amplifier. vl

Subject: RE: Guitare,guitars,and music
From: fat B****rd
Date: 19 May 02 - 03:34 PM

F...ing marvellos site LJC. Thank you so much for bringing it to our attention. Al the best from the fB.

Subject: RE: Guitare,guitars,and music
From: M.Ted
Date: 20 May 02 - 02:16 PM

John Zeidler, RIP this week? Details--please!

Subject: RE: Guitare,guitars,and music
From: Mooh
Date: 20 May 02 - 02:25 PM

M Ted,

Sorry to leave you hanging like that. I believe I saw the obit in a NY or Philly newspaper website sent by a friend. Leukemia I think, left a wife and child, was a builder of incredible instruments, flyrods and flies and other things. Sorry I don't know more as I've not kept the notice. A huge loss to the art of luthiery.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: Guitare,guitars,and music
From: M.Ted
Date: 20 May 02 - 05:14 PM

I owned one of his earlier guitars(an archtop), and it was a great instrument, capable of a greater depth of sound than I have heard in any other instrument, but very demanding of the player(too demanding for any of the the other Zeidler owners I ran in to to actually make it their main instrument)--

I had a number of discussion with him about the relative virtues of the classic archtops, and he tended not to think much of them-- as I understood it, he thought that electrics were much better instruments, and he wanted to get the dynamic range and cleanness of sound that they had in an acoustic instrument--

He once built his own version of a tele, semi-hollow body--that impressed me even more than his acoustic instruments--it had the bite that you would expect, but the sound was very complex, with a lot of dynamic room--Bob Benedetto said that John was the best luthier that he knew of--too bad to loose someone like that--