I watched this years Grammy awards and spent part of my time doing what I always do when watching guitar players on television. I played guitar spotting. How quickly could I name the brand and model of the guitars on stage? I’ll admit that I’m slipping and a few threw me. I blame poor camera [...]
I started a series on guitar picks more than a year ago. I always intended to complete the series with a post about thumb picks. I had even started this and saved a draft. So, sorry for the delay. Here’s the third post in the Picky series. Thumb picks Few electric guitarists play(ed) with finger [...]
Good news for all you lovers of Jazz box, archtop hollow body guitars. Several companies have recently announced renewed production of classic archtop designs. D’Angelico. I had included some D’Angelico models in my review of small jazz boxes. These were reproductions of D’Angelico designs but were not high end luthier built guitars as made by [...]
Source: epiphone.com via Dan on Pinterest Epiphone Guitars has recently released their 1962 Collection. The collection consists of three historic electric guitars as they were made in 1962. The three are the Sheraton E212TV, the Crestwood Custom SB332 and the Sorrento E452TDN. If you love solid body electric guitars and want something similar to a [...]
I was fascinated to discover ukulele strings composed of two stainless steel flatwound strings for the 4th and 3rd strings. These were combined with two plain clear nylon strings for the two high strings. This is another set from Southcoast ukulele. The strings are the G650 Lineear String set. The recommended tuning is dependent on [...]
Southcoast Ukulele makes a nylon set of strings for baritone ukuleles with no wound strings (i.e., all plain strings). I have had these on my cheapo baritone for several months. Right after I made the video (below) I tried out a different set of strings from Southcoast for the baritone. Ukuleles are traditionally tuned in [...]
I describe the Aquila Low G string I put on my new Tenor Ukulele in the following video. You can also get a Red Series C string. Some people believe the results are better when the two low strings are similar which is why some sets of Low G tuning ukulele strings have both the G [...]
I am excited. I finally purchased a tenor ukulele. Although it is not an expensive instrument, it is hugely superior to the soprano and baritone ukuleles I own. I show off my new Kala Tenor in the video below: Some details about my new ukulele: Model KA-TEM which stands for Kala Tenor Exotic Mahogany. The [...]
Oh dear. Gibson has released another ES-330 re-issue. I’ve been waiting for nearly twenty years for Gibson to re-issue what I consider to be the “classic” ES-330 design. But they seem incapable of making a re-issue except for the fringes of the original run designs. I’m not implying these re-issues don’t match a design that [...]
I recently reviewed iPad apps for musicians. I’ve also mentioned Android apps I use on my smartphone such as gStrings, a chromatic tuner I always have with me, as long as I have my phone. But sometimes I’m working on my laptop or desktop computer and it would be easier to just see an app [...]
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