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I don’t have it here handy, but there is a guitar in the newest issue of Vintage Guitar, the one with Santana on the front, that has a finish that looks like my sisters dresser. Mind you, we were very poor, and that dresser had about 5 different colors of paint on it, plus the spills from all her makeup.
Indeed, I suspected as much. My gut feeling is that a guitar string on a solid-body electric is a frequency generator and not much else. Very good guitarists have been known to disagree with that opinion, however, so we won’t be betting the farm on it, will we?
But after all…if you can make a good guitar out of clear plastic, what can’t you make it out of?
I would love to sit in front of an oscilloscope for a while, though.
I expressed an opinion up above about the effect of tuners on the tone of an electric guitar. Mind you, it’s just opinion, so now I’m really going to step in it.
It has been said that when it comes to comparing building guitars to building ships, the solid-body electric guitar is the ship-building equivalent of a dugout canoe. If so, I guess that would make the National 3-Cone Resonator the fully-rigged clipper ship.
Some say that essentially, if your soldi-body electric guitar is stiff enough to hold its tune, nothing much on it affects the tone, other than the pickups and the pots, which can have some effect. Others wax poetic on the relative merits of various woods, glues, finishes, even shapes and electrical cavities.
So…is there anyone who has ever scientifically quantified all this with oscilloscopes, etc., or are we all sitting around (metaphorically) discussing whether a wine is “presumptiuous” or “oakey?”
As a former English teacher, reading almost anything on the net is painful to me. I try not to get judgmental about it!
Paragraphing, and almost anything else requiring skill, is a matter of practice. That goes for guitar playing, writing, driving, or almost anything worth doing.
I have worked on several web sites, and it’s a constant pain trying to get people to write as if it mattered. Which, by the way, it does. Almost all web sites and forums and BBS’s have readers who are sight-challenged, and the programs they use deal very poorly with “non-standard” writing, capitalization, punctuation, spelling, etc. Imagine trying to read music in which every composer used his own rules for notes, timing, etc.
As to the tuners…I have a hard time imagining the weight of a tuner would have any effect on the the tone, but that would be something interesting to try to quantify in a scientific manner.
do you mean what became “hula” in Hawaii? Some of the more fundamental of that stuff can get downright rocky! Remember when the white man arrived there, they had virtually no instruments that were melodic, really, just drums and other percussion instruments of all sizes.
What we often think of as “hula” is largely an adaptation of the white folks’ music to the Polynesian ear, and the dance is a much-cleaned-up version for the white missionary’s eye.
I once took a French Composition class, and the professor complained all the time about a student who never put in paragraph breaks. He finally took to calling him Monsieur Pavee…Mr. Paving Stone! One big block of print.
Oddly enough, this subject has come up a number of times on various Ibanez forums. The feeling is that “ee-bahn-yeth” is correct…but no one uses it. That last “th,” by the way, is voiced, as in “this,” rather than unvoiced as in “with.”
In looking at US and Mexican strats recently, one difference I saw was the finish on the ends of the frets. The Mexican models were much rougher.
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There IS a Paris in Texas. As well as an Iraan (yes, that’s spelled correctly), Reno, Italy, etc. When you settle an area pretty quickly, names tend to be descriptive or derivative.
I, personally, live in Cedar Hill. It’s the highest spot between the Red River and the Gulf of Mexico in eastern Texas. If you listen to radio or watch TV in the DFW Metroplex (a name that drives most non-Texans up the wall), the signal came from Cedar Hill.
But we DO have names to determine if someone is from Texas:
Waxahachie
Mexia
Bexar
Boerne
Groene
Alvarado
Rio Vista.Only natives or long-time residents will get them right, since many defy logic or phonics.
Just got my Ibanez SA160 from UPS. Love it.
Hey, I like that rubbish punchline!
Teisco is almost certainly “tays-co.”
Ibanez IS a Spanish name. Although the details are a little dodgy, the Ibanez family built guitars for Hoshino before the Spanish Civil War. During the war, the factory (and the family) disappeared in what has been described as a “fairly messy worker uprising.” So the Ibanez workers got to experience a preview of what has gone on continually since then: Their jobs all went to Japan. It’s not clear if Hoshino bought or just continued to use the name Ibanez, but I’m sure somewhere along the line they paid something to someone somewhere just to avoid future paper-engorged meetings in courtrooms around the world.
An “enya” (properly called a “tilde”) is a curved line over an “n” in Spanish that make the n into an “ny” sound. As in that perennial guitar picking song, “Malaguena.” That’s “mal-a-gwain-ya.”
I live in Texas, by the way. That may be distorting my view of how any Spanish name should be pronounced.
Sabian? What about Zildjian (or however it’s spelled!)?
I’ve never seen an “enya” over the n in Ibanez, so I assume it’s not “Ee-bahn-yez”.
Don’t know how long this will be viewable, but can you believe a PRS could be this ugly?http://mi-images.instrumentexchange.com/images/photos/a_4726023928266_1.jpg
I tried both the Fender (2 copies) and Ibanez (2 copies) in a local music store, and I just didn’t like the feel of the Fender at all, and when I tuned them up, both Fenders had a lot of fret buzz. Probably just not set up yet, but neither of the Ibanez had that problem. I have also heard somewhere that the Fender showmasters, at least the flamed/quilted maple top ones, have been discontinued. I haven’t seen that officially anywhere yet.
I’ll confess a weakness for natural wood; I spent 5 years in a cabinet shop paint department, and I can put a lacquer piano finish on almost anything!
and yes, that’s the one. Haven’t recieved it yet, but I’ve looke at a couple of examples of the guitar at a local store.
It has a list of almost $600, but a street price of about $450 and you can find it new for as little as $329. I avoided the Floyd Rose style tremolo; it looked more complicated than I need.
One worrying point is that these don’t sell well on e-bay, but the Fender does. Of course, that’s like buying a Harley or a Peterbilt; it’s only important if you’re buying for the next guy, not yourself. (That ought to start up a discussion!)
