G L Wilson
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Showing posts with label electro-acoustic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label electro-acoustic. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Ozark Galloping Horse acoustic
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Ozark Guitars produce a fine range of budget to medium-priced acoustic and resonator guitars and other folk instruments such as banjos, mandolins, mandolas and bouzoukis. It's nice to see that they have been having fun with some of their designs, such as the above pictured acoustic with a "galloping horse" soundhole design picked out in inlaid mother of pearl and abalone. Other soundhole designs have included a dolphin, an eagle, and a butterfly. It seems the horse and dolphin designs are now discontinued. I'm not quite sure what relevance the pineapple on the headstock has.
G L Wilson
Guitarz - The Original Guitar Blog - now in its 10th year!
G L Wilson
Guitarz - The Original Guitar Blog - now in its 10th year!
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Ibanez Artstar AE-200
This Ibanez Artstar AE-200 is quite an intriguing guitar, about which I couldn't find much information - feel free to contribute if you know more... The acoustic/electric hybrid guitars are not exceptional nowadays but this one is from 1988! It has a piezo pickup under the bridge and a mini-humbucker in neck position, and you can balance the pickups from full bucky for a jazz tone to just acoustic with the piezo. I have no confirmation for this but the slits under the strings next to the bridge seem to be sound holes - strangely located then because we are more used to semi-hollow guitars with a central beam prolonging the neck... Definitely would like to know more - it's very interesting...
Bertram
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010
90s Acoustic Dean
This electro-acoustic guitar from Dean has something vulgar that is almost exciting (like Patricia Arquette wearing pink leopard-print leggings and lake placid blue lace bra in True Romance, if you see what I mean..) I cannot find anything about it on the Web, though it's just from the 90s and from an important company, and not some brandless Japanese cheapo from the 60s - if anybody has info, it's welcome.
I'm busy with electro-acoustic guitars lately, and quite desperate to see that they are at 99% even more conservative than electric ones ; that's why I chose to show this one here: even if I think it's quite ugly, at least it tries something different.
Bertram
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Saturday, June 26, 2010
Fender Telecoustic Paisley
Actually this Fender Telecoustic Paisley is there only on its aesthetics, the Telecoustic models - an electro-acoustic version of the Telecaster - have quite a bad reputation when it comes to sound and music ; but the paisley finish is superb, I my opinion better than the solid body version.
To be honest it would be perfect on a shirt - I've been looking for a paisley shirt for months now, Pink Floyd 1967 style, and you can't find this anymore in continental Europe - do you still have this in the UK?
Guitarz - The Original Guitar Blog - now in its 9th year!
Friday, May 21, 2010
1952 Gibson L-7C
A queen amongst the acoustic archtop guitars I love so much, the Gibson L-7C is a version of the classic L-7 with a round venetian cutaway, and is still in production since its released in 1949 - claiming for some reason to be one of the few non electrified acoustic archtop guitar built nowadays, like it's the best idea they ever had.
Anyway, that's why this 1952 one has been upgraded, probably in the 60s, with a DeArmond pickup. The honey-blonde finish fits particularly to this model, much better than the usual sunburst, as it allows to perceive at the first glance its elegant and structural simplicity.
Look at it people, this one is supposed to be one of the best guitars in history!
Sunday, May 9, 2010
ARIA Pro II NXG Custom Shop
This nylon stringed Aria pro II is serious stuff. Its slim wide telecaster shape has its sound hole on the upper horn, something that Ovation and its followers made quite common now, but the hole is big as required to properly amplify the nylon strings and has a quite elegant shape.
I like how Japanese instrument makers have no complex about innovation also in classical music instruments, where tradition absolutely rules in the West!
bertram
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Saturday, February 27, 2010
40s Gretsch Synchromatic with De Armond custom pickup
As you can see, this beautiful über-vintage 40s Gretsch Synchromatic has a vintage modification with its De Armond pickup that was probably added in the 50s - according to the seller.
I'd love to plug this guitar in a fuzz/wah pedal and a big Marshall stack both set on 11 and hear it scream!
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Aria Pro II Howard Roberts 1977
You probably noticed that I love hollow/semi-hollow jazz guitars such as this Aria Pro II Howard Roberts (though I would probably stick a screwdriver through the strings and plug it on a fuzzbox with all its knobs on 11).
This Aria is a clone of the custom guitar Howard Roberts designed for Gibson based on the ES-175, but it is not clear if it's a copy from the 'lawsuit era' or one made in the short time when Howard Roberts was endorsed by Aria... But it doesn't have two pickups like the Gibson - only a neck one like the Epiphone version, but still three knobs like the Gibson!
Anyway, I'm not an expert so if you want to know more you can have a look here.
And let's enjoy the beauty and bizarreness of an acoustic flat-top with a florentine cutaway, a sound hole and a humbucker pickup - never seen one like this before!
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