Guitar Spotting
When you see a guitar in a movie or on TV what do you do? When I’m watching TV with my wife, I’ll often call out the make and model of the guitar. It’s sort of a contest to see how quickly I can identify the guitar. I’m the only player so I always win. [...]
2012 Small Jazz Guitars – Eastman
Eastman has been making some of the best reviewed, medium priced instruments for some time. Their products cover an eclectic mix from violins to archtop jazz guitars to fiberglass guitar cases to mandolins. All are beautifully finished and are of professional quality at much better price than say a Gibson or one of the small [...]
2012 Small Jazz Guitars – Gretsch
Gretsch is best known today for guitars played by Rockabilly guitarists. Brian Setzer, the Reverend Horton Heat or the iconic Duane Eddie and Eddie Cochran. The best known Gretsch guitars have Bigsby Vibratos which takes them out of the running for my small jazz guitar series. Thus it may come as a surprise that you [...]
2012 Small Jazz Guitars – Dean
Dean has been making the Palomino guitar from some time. The basic guitar is reminiscent of the iconic Gibson ES-5 Switchmaster guitars from the 1950s (shown at left). The Gibson’s were 17″ wide body guitars with three P90s and later three humbuckers. The Dean Palomino series are smaller guitars with a 16″ width – and [...]
Modern Guitar Innovations – 1937 – The Seven String Guitar
Adding a 7th string to a six string guitar is probably an idea that has occurred and been tried repeatedly in the history of the guitar. You can search for history about 7-string guitars and discover there had been a 7-string guitar in Russia tuned to an open G tuning in the 19th century. It is [...]
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