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08 Jul 98 - 09:27 PM (#32118) Subject: Sisme Guitar From: murray@mpce.mq.edu.au I just found a battered old "Sisme Model A" guitar in a pawn shop. It is very small bodied, has no pickguard and no struts on the back. On the other hand it has the fingerboard dimensions of a steel string guitar. It has a moveable bridge and a trapezoidal tailpiece like old Gibsons, etc. I got it because (ha! who can resist a bargain) it emphasizes the middle tones and gives a sound more like the old blues recordings. I would be interested in anything you can tell me about the instrument--historical and practical. BTW, I know about rec.music.makers.acoustic and I posted the same question to them. Murray |