BS: new instruments

Subject: new instruments
From: 53
Date: 11 Aug 01 - 02:45 AM

we have just bought a yamaha cg 70 classic guitar and now we have just bought a johnson baritone uke, both of which have nylon strings and i love practice on them cause it saves my fingers for my real playing. i hope that some of you out there might have some info and some input on the 2 instruments. i think that both of these instruments are of good looks and they are constructed very well,anyway i'm proud to own them since for father's day my children gave me a taylor big baby. the guitars that i already own were a 1979 gibson walnut J 40 that i bought brand new in 1980,and also i own a 1990 takamine ltd which sounds great on stage ran thru a peavey reno acoustic amp. and the i own a 1988 fender strat plus with 3 gold lace sensors in it and i ran it thru a peavey classic 210 amp i am really proud of my collection of my guitars. my wife also has a taylor big baby and she has just fell in love with it and she is really practicing hard and learning how to play well. we have been doing some home recording and we hope that will continue to do well.well that's about enough for now, thanks bob.

Subject: RE: BS: new instruments
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 04 Sep 01 - 09:34 AM

Subject: RE: BS: new instruments
From: Oversoul
Date: 04 Sep 01 - 10:54 PM

i love new instruments too! i just got a new gibson sg standard in tv yellow and i love playing chordal things on it in the morning through my wee bit of a pignose amp. also i have started using a heifetz mute on my little viola and it sounds new too! intonation is improving, 'cause i play more now. hope is the anchor of the soul! i have a cool harmony mandolin but it is not at all new.

Subject: RE: BS: new instruments
From: kendall
Date: 04 Sep 01 - 11:01 PM

Sniffing the sound hole of a new guitar is like sniffing the neck of a baby. They have a different odor of course!

Subject: RE: BS: new instruments
From: catspaw49
Date: 04 Sep 01 - 11:08 PM

I'm going to let that alone and just say that you owe me one Kendall.........

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: new instruments
From: Sorcha
Date: 04 Sep 01 - 11:14 PM

A very BIG one, Kendall. The man has never been know to let an opportunity like that go by!

Subject: RE: BS: new instruments
From: Gloredhel
Date: 05 Sep 01 - 10:40 PM

New instruments can be great--just got a new harp myself, a real pedal harp, too, for classical music--6ft. tall, 85 lbs, impossible for me to carry alone, but absolutely beautiful! And someone had better post to this after I do because all the threads I've posted to in the past three days have gone wherever threads go to die and I'm beginning to think no one wants to talk to me....

Subject: RE: BS: new instruments
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 05 Sep 01 - 10:43 PM

I like harps.

Subject: RE: BS: new instruments
From: GUEST,yum yum
Date: 05 Sep 01 - 11:47 PM

I know how you feel.... I restore (or help to restore) old sets of pipes. In the past year I have been handed -bags- of old sets of pipes. (I make pipebags for all types of bagpipes) I was given a set of pipes (circ:1760) and asked to replicate the bag and bellows. Wow, I know they are not new instruments, but the way bags and bellows have evolved over the years they may well have been. It didn't pay me to do the work, but what the hell! the kick I got out of it when the set was put together and I heard them played... blew me away! I know how you feel....

YUM YUM

Subject: RE: BS: new instruments
From: GUEST,Lanfranc at the orifice
Date: 06 Sep 01 - 04:56 AM

Mmmm. My SGAS (Serial guitar acquisition syndrome) has worsened of late. Latest addition is a Martin DM12 12-string.

An amazing instrument. I have been a bit cynical about Martin's lower-end ranges, but this not only plays the pants off any other 12 I have owned (8 over the years, including Guilds and Gibsons), but sounds better than the D28-12 that one of my cronies plays.

Doesn't smell particularly fragrant, though, they must have economised on the perfume!

Subject: RE: BS: new instruments
From: Wesley S
Date: 06 Sep 01 - 11:09 AM

Kendell is right you know - babies and new instruments smell alike. Thats why I found a diaper on my mandolin this morning. Maybe next time I'll turn on the lights at 2:00AM.

Subject: RE: BS: new instruments
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Sep 01 - 01:03 PM

Question for Davecojo:

Does that new Gibson SG Standard have the 490 pickups? If so, have you any experience with the P-90's that Gibson put in the 60's SGs and how they compare? Thanks.

Subject: RE: BS: new instruments
From: GUEST,Songster Bob
Date: 07 Sep 01 - 02:14 PM

New instruments? I haven't had a "new" instrument in years. Even my custom-made Running Dog jumbo concert guitar wasn't new when I got it. It was made in 1997, and I bought it in 2000 (it was the maker's demo model, and last I saw him, he hadn't made another).

I get lots of "new to me" instruments, though. Mostly guitars of late, both coming and going. I just sold two on Ebay and bought one, which hasn't arrived yet. As for the smell of 'em, all I worry about is mildew, 'cause some guitars reek of it, if they're old enough and were stored improperly. Had one once I couldn't stand to use, so I had to sell it. Should have de-molded it, but didn't know how in those days.

I have something like 23 guitars, 5 banjos, a guitar-banjo, 2 mandolins, a banjo-mandolin, a tenor banjo, a fiddle, a dulcimer, and an autoharp. I think that covers the stringed instruments. There are harmonicas, jew's harps, and a toy-sized squeezebox.

None of 'em are new, and few (other than the harmonicas, of course) were new when I got 'em.

Maybe I'll buy a new something someday, but I'm not in the habit of looking for new.

Bob Clayton

Subject: RE: BS: new instruments
From: 53
Date: 07 Sep 01 - 08:44 PM

Bob Clayton, what type guitars do you have? Acoustic, Classical, electric? What names? Gibson, Takamine,...? I'm impressed, at any rate, keep up the collecting of the finer things of life. I am crowded out now with our small collection... We live in a singlewide MH.

Hey, you guys I am so glad you finally spoke to me on this thread! The night I put it in - no one would speak to me at all.

Bob