dsi1 wrote:
> On Sunday, January 10, 2016 at 9:31:43 AM UTC-10, cibola de oro wrote:
>> dsi1 wrote:
>>> On Saturday, January 9, 2016 at 1:39:41 PM UTC-10, cibola de oro wrote:
>>>> dsi1 wrote:
>>>>> On 1/9/2016 9:48 AM, MisterDiddyWahDiddy wrote:
>>>>>> On Friday, January 8, 2016 at 10:07:40 PM UTC-6, dsi1 wrote:
>>>>>>> On 1/7/2016 12:46 PM, cibola do oro wrote:
>>>>>>>> dsi1 wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Thursday, January 7, 2016 at 11:10:51 AM UTC-10, cibola do oro
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> dsi1 wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> On Thursday, January 7, 2016 at 7:56:20 AM UTC-10, cibola do oro
>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> dsi1 wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Thursday, January 7, 2016 at 4:27:19 AM UTC-10,
>>>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Monday, January 4, 2016 at 3:31:44 PM UTC-5, Janet B wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Pizza war! Pizza Hut and Papa John's slash prices
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Too bad I wouldn't eat either.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Janet US
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> There's an awful lot of guitarists around that could play better
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> than guys like Clatpton or Page that will never make a dollar
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> playing.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> I've always believed that the best players are people that
>>>>>>>>>>>>> nobody's ever heard of. The reality is talent isn't enough - you
>>>>>>>>>>>>> have to have the desire to make it playing music. I never had the
>>>>>>>>>>>>> desire or the strength to be a performing guitar-monkey. 
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> A sound appraisal.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Drive doesn't mean great music, but drive may share great music.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> The worst part is that if you have some talent, people around you
>>>>>>>>>>> will be trying to control your life. This happened to my guitar
>>>>>>>>>>> buddy in high school. After college he moved to India and
>>>>>>>>>>> disappeared for a while. My guess is that the idea of being a
>>>>>>>>>>> performing monkey did not appeal to him either.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Under many radars:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5Rfv0dQttM
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Sumpin' tells me you may dog this.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> I don't know why I don't have a Telecaster. It made the guitar
>>>>>>>>>>> suitable for mass production and is responsible for our history with
>>>>>>>>>>> the electric guitar for the last 60 years.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Yeppers.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> It's truly a brilliant design. I've got every guitar that I've
>>>>>>>>>>> wanted since I was 18. The only one that missing is the basic
>>>>>>>>>>> Telecaster.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> I'll always dig and respect guys that do their own thing. Thanks.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I had a feeling you might.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Maybe you add a 50s butterscotch one day?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Heck, I may just build my own. Any monkey should be able to - as long
>>>>>>>>> as he's a very diligent monkey.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I yield to your "monkey grip", since it's not a bass...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ;-)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Speaking of "grip" I find myself in a most ridiculous situation. I have
>>>>>>> small tubes of denture material that is no longer made. The $7 tubes,
>>>>>>> which I thought was overpriced, is now going for over around $140 a
>>>>>>> tube. If I sell all the tubes, I'd probably be able to buy a Telecaster
>>>>>>> plus a dinner at Morimoto Waikiki. Now that would be funny as all shit!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The first Tele I ever saw had a bridge cover. They are beautiful with
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> cover on, and while the cover restricts picking near the bridge (most
>>>>>> folks
>>>>>> don't do that much of that anyway, do they?), and adds a little extra
>>>>>> work
>>>>>> changing strings or setting intonation, the Telecaster with the bridge
>>>>>> cover
>>>>>> is so, so pretty.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://chasingguitars.com/wp-content...2013/07/03.jpg
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Speaking of pretty guitars, I've got a nice one, and I'm sure that real
>>>>>> guitarists would think that some bang out 4 or 5 chord rock song hack
>>>>>> like
>>>>>> me doesn't deserve to play one of these, but I have small hands, and
>>>>>> in 1st
>>>>>> position the neck feels really nice.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://cdn2.bigcommerce.com/server30...0.1280.jpg?c=2
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If they made a little gold tone bridge cover for my Blueshawk, it
>>>>>> would make
>>>>>> the guitar even prettier. Like this one.
>>>>>> http://www.12fret.com/wp-content/gal...ge_cover_1.jpg
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Electric guitar bridges are ugly. Look at these Telecasters.
>>>>>> http://www.tdpri.com/forum/attachmen...r-p1000713-jpg
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --Bryan
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The telecaster bridge is a nice design that structurally makes a lot of
>>>>> sense - it spreads the string loading forces over the widest area of an
>>>>> other guitar bridge and has the mounting for the bride pickup. This was
>>>>> a common practice with lap steel guitars. The cover provides some
>>>>> electrical shielding for the early pickups which were prone to be noisy
>>>>> from leaking transformer circuits and provided a palm rest for the lap
>>>>> steel player's picking hand.
>>>>
>>>> But later pickups made that so much less of an issue, and the after
>>>> market now?
>>>
>>> A lot of the Telecasters sold these days still have pickups with a design Fender developed in the 40's.
>>
>> True day - the reissue market is strong.
>>
>>> The pickups introduced by Gibson in 1957 were quieter, more fuller sounding, and stronger.
>>
>> Far more, yes.
>>
>>> The Gibson humbucker defined the sound of late 60's and 70's rock but I wanted a guitar to sound more like the Beatles and less like the Stones.
>>>
>>
>> So you wanted a Rickenbacker!
>>
>> Who didn't?
>>
>>>> Well....
>>>>
>>>> http://intl.fender.com/en-NL/guitar-...kups-set-of-2/
>>>
>>> Those sound pretty good. Less tweet and more balls. They would be a good choice on a Tele - I think.
>>
>> I think so too, the spectrum of choices is so broad now!
>>
>> Consider:
>>
>> http://www.seymourduncan.com/pickup/...nd-tele-bridge
>>
>> or...
>>
>> http://www.seymourduncan.com/pickup/little-59-tele
>>
>> hmmm....
>
> The sky's the limit as to pickups for Teles. Alumitones might work, although I don't think they make those for a conventional bridge install. I have used them on an archtop guitar but that extended tonal range is not something that I want on an archtop - on a Tele, however...
Fair point, to much tonal range on an archtop will lead to unpleasant
harmonics, iirc.
I wonder of that's why Fender chose not to use single pole pickups on
the f-hole Tele Thinlines?
I think those preceded the single pole models, but maybe not...
> http://www.lacemusic.com/alumitone_single_coil.php
I'm going to bridge this reply to another one you may have missed, what
are your thoughts on:
Man, they can virtualize ANY thing these days!
http://www.gizmag.com/virtual-jeff-e...mmy-bar/41249/
The Virtual Jeff is not a mechanical vibrato system, but an electronic
one. Players use it like a traditional whammy bar, but digital pitch
control is used to massage the output for pitch-perfect, error-free
shimmers, dips, dives and squeals. It can be retrofitted to almost any
guitar, including acoustics and basses. "As long as it has a pickup (or
any kind of analog signal output), you're in business," say its
creators. Players could even have several instruments "Jeff-ready" for
quick swap-outs from one to another.
Details on what makes the Virtual Jeff tick are a bit thin on the
ground, but we can tell you that the device is cabled to a floor control
box about the size of a stomp. Signals from pickups on a host guitar are
registered, combined with data from the whammy bar unit, and everything
is run through a digital processor and then the digitally whammified
sound is output – all in real time.
"Virtual Jeff is a 'high precision' pitch controller," Peter Walker of
Fomofx told Gizmag. "This, at first, seems technically trivial, but a
simple analysis of what 'high precision' means in this context shows
that it's quite a challenge.