Specimen electric lute

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Here's another one of Ian Schneller's creations, seen here in this video clip being played by the guy who commissioned the instrument in the first place, Michiel Niessen, in March 2009. Read more about it here.

G L Wilson

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Specimen aluminium-bodied Selmer-style jazz guitar

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This Specimen aluminium-bodied guitar is currently being offered for sale on eBay with a starting price of $2,500. It is styled after the Selmer oval-hole gypsy jazz guitars (although with a scaled-down body size) as used by the likes of Django Reinhardt. The seller refers to it as "Maccaferri" but this appellation is a total misnomer. Selmer Maccaferri guitars featured a larger D-shaped soundhole (originally conceived to house an internal resonator device which eventually proved unpopular), and by the time that the Selmer company had brought out the oval-soundhole guitar they had ceased all connection with Mario Maccaferri himself.

Anyway, as for this Specimen "tribute", I'll borrow from the eBay listing and let the seller explain all:

This one-of-a-kind guitar was built in Chicago about ten years ago by Ian Schneller, founder of Specimen Products and the Chicago School of Guitar Making. In the event you are familiar with Specimen, you don't need me to say much of anything here. This is a very serious guitar, for serious bidders only. Do not bid prior to researching Specimen Products--you will be glad you did, as it is quite an amazing operation. Assuming you are not familiar with Specimen, here is the description from the Specimen website of this guitar, and whereas Specimen has produced many guitars over the years, they've only produced one Maccaferri, and this is it:

Maccaferri.
"A nod to another point in history — Django Reinhardt, Mario Maccaferri. This fully-acoustic aluminum Specimen guitar has quite a usable volume unamplified. When plugged in with a regular mono cable, its mini-humbucker provides a feedback resistant electric signal. When used with a stereo 1/4-inch cable plugged into a Fishman Power Blend pedal, its transducer in the bridge surreptitiously accompanies the humbucker via a third wire. This enables either a stereo or combined output with a broad and complex tone pallet. I have always been critical of transducer units, but I believe that the technology has finally matured. And, coupled with the sustain of aluminum, the sound of this instrument is truly stunning. It's like listening to a guitar through a microscope. A tiny drop of water teaming with life."

The only blemishes on this guitar are a very small knick in the back of the neck about halfway up--doesn't impair the instrument but you can feel it when the left hand is moving to various positions on the neck. Otherwise, there is slight corrosion on a few of the screw heads at both the pickup and bridge. It appears that whereas the larger screws holding the body together are stainless, the smaller screws holding the components (i.e. bridge, pick-up, are not). This is a NO-RESERVE auction for a very rare and very special guitar.

[...] [A] Fishman Powerblend pedal--barely used, with all original paperwork and packaging--is included. [...]

Features of the guitar are as follows:

• Fully-acoustic aluminum body
• Bird's eye maple neck with aluminum facing on headstock
• Ebony fretboard
• Banjo tuners
• Mini- humbucking pickup in neck position
• Fishman Transducer pickup in ebony bridge
• Volume and tone controls
• Custom-made aluminum tailpiece with sculpted ebony insert

(Ignore all reference to Maccaferri - as already noted above, this is incorrect).

See also: www.specimenproducts.com

G L Wilson

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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

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1960s Vox Clubman bass

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I think in the early days Vox must have been rather slapdash about the names they applied to their guitars, as I had previously thought that the above-pictured bass was the Vox Bassmaster and not the Vox Clubman Bass which is the name that appears on the headstock on this example currently for sale on eBay. To confuse things even more, the name Vox Bassmaster also appeared on a completely different design of bass.

These early Voxes, made in Dartford, Kent, in the UK, were essentially student model guitars with a very thin plywood body. It looks as if the original finish (most likely red) was removed from this example a long time ago. Note also the jack socket, which would have been added later. Early Voxes such as this had a TV-like co-axial socket, as did the Vox Clubman II guitar I used to own (before I upgraded it).

Despite their student status, these basses are known for their distinctive sound and playability. Personally, because of their cheap construction, I wouldn't have thought they were eminently gig-worthy but perhaps to get that certain sound in the studio they would be desireable.

G L Wilson

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Guild B-301 Bass

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Here's a classic bass design that you don't see too often these days. Regarded as a reliable workhorse of a bass, the Guild B-301 was in production from 1977 through to 1980. It features a mahogany body with a set 3-piece mahogany neck. Pickups and controls were all mounted to the pickguard, meaning that the body only needed routing on the front side. This was an economical exercise in order to speed up and simplify mass production.

The B-301 was the single pickup model and the two pickup model was named - wait for it - the B-302. This example, with "B-301" on its truss rod cover, has two pickups - but one of these has been added by a previous owner.

G L Wilson

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Chickenfoot - Wabo Cabo (Live) - 2010

Artist: Chickenfoot
Album: Wabo Cabo (Live) (Bootleg)
Year: 2010
Genre:  Rock
Format: 320 kbps mp3
Password: http://guitar-maniacs.blogspot.com
Tracklist:
1. Avenida Revolucion (7:55)
2. Soap On A Rope (6:01)
3. Sexy Little Thing (4:38)
4. Carrie And Chad's Mom (1:52)
5. My Kinda Girl (4:40)
6. Foxy Lady (5:49)
7. Bucket Routine (1:52)
8. Oh Yeah! (6:57)
9. Happy Birthday / Wipe Out (1:57)
10. Get It Up (with Immigrant Song tease) (6:26)
11. Turnin' Left (7:15)
12. Thank You's and Goofing Off! (2:30)
NOTE: As I knew it is not official release. It is recorded live show from the web cast.

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