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It was inexpensive, but it sounds just fine for the beach or the pitfire ... or just messing around
Ibanez 510 A-style acoustic mandolin ... it works ...
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thunderous!
built for me by a friend in Canada, "Toirneach" ("Thunder" in Gaelic) is a much better drum than I am a player ... but I intend to continue beating the goat ...
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a very special gift
my dear friend built this from a kit in 1975 and inlaid the headstock and painted the resonator and the head ... 11" frosted plastic head, cast metal 1-piece rim and tone ring, 24 hooks and nuts with individual flange pieces, mahogany resonator with tortoise plastic binding, and mahogany neck with 22-fret rosewood fingerboard ... kind of a mellow little thing
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imagine this picture as a dark sunburst
... and it would be mine ... spruce top, maple everything else ... the sister of the M-340 ... the "TV" stand for "Traditional Violin" ... beautiful and chime-y!
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bright and punchy!
all maple (body, neck, fretboard) with a spruce top ... a dreadnaught that will get your attention from the first notes!
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I LOVE THIS!
'94 Guild acoustic-electric (Fishman electronics) All Mahogany top and Body (AMB) ... some folks disparage these, but I've found it perfect for my kind of acoustic/electric music ... it does well at both!
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spruce and mahogany ... what more do you need?
I bought this new in Apriil 1967 from Manny's in NYC ... had to have the neck re-set once and the bridge replaces twice, but it's a tank! with a wonderful jangle!
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it's a little thing, but ...
My brown Vox Pathfinder 15r puts out 15 watts through a little 8" speaker ... it's solid-state with a great tremolo and a spring reverb ... and it'll curl your toes, bro! (don't bother getting the nearly worthless Vox foot-switch)
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“pure, rich and deep, with the tinkling of silver bells in it”
spruce top, arched maple back, massive six-pole piece horse-shoe magnet pick-up ... great in the upper mid-range ... from what I can tell, made in 1936
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sweet!
spruce top, mahogany back, sides, and neck ... rich and mellow with excellent projection ... not the most expensive one out there, but it works just fine for me!
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It ain't for Bluegrass, but it's terrific!
a 1914 Gibson A-1, missing its pick-guard and with a long-ago repaired crack on the treble side up by where the neck meets its body, that is warm and sweet, and perfect for folk, and old-time, and Celtic tunes ... a special pumpkin top!
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strange and wonderful
body carved from a bole of mulberry, frets tied onto the neck (in quartertones!), and tuners that are nothing more than sticks ... I tune its six strings like a mountain dulcimer (Cc-gg-cc) ... it differences from western instruments are eye-opening
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a monster!
Mine is Fiesta Red ... but it's chambered mahogany body and the updated DeArmond 2000 single-coil pickups are a perfect match ... she moans and howls and sets my heart aflame. Her sound is bright and insistent, demanding and taking her place in the middle of the music ... if you can find one (they were only made at the Guild Custom Shop in Nashville for a couple of years) ... get one! You'll be glad that you did!
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an amazing guitar!
I've got a '61 with the DeArmond Dynasonic single-coils ... but despite the difference in pickups, most of these Starfires are loaded with humbuckers (the single-coils are brighter and crisper ... think rockabilly instead of rock), it is, without a doubt, the finest electric guitar I have played. mellow and sweet when it's clean, and dirty and iin-your-face when it's overdriven ... perfect!
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It don't get much better than this!
Peter McMahon designed and built this little 25-watt howler ... cleans, when you need 'em, and breakup, too ... An amp EVERYONE should own!
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I've owned this guitar for 48 years, and I've played it nearly every day
there is nothing that sounds like this guitar ... that's why Chet Atkins, Earl Klugh, and Eric Johnson have all owned one ... mine is special ... a mellow resonator that sustains and chimes
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wonderful!
this is NOT a bluegrass mandolin ... and since I play folk and old-time, and a little Celtic, that's just fine with me
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I've owned this guitar for 48 years, and I've played it nearly every day
there is nothing that sounds like this guitar ... that's why Chet Atkins, Earl Klugh, and Eric Johnson have all owned one ... mine is special ... a mellow resonator that sustains and chimes
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If you need a hollow-body arch-top with single-coils ... here's your huckleberry!
It can play nice ... or it can rip your face off ... mine is an old one with DeArmond Dynasonics ...
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It don't get much better than this!
Peter McMahon designed andd built this little 25-watt howler ... cleans, when you need 'em, and breakup, too ... An amp EVERYONE should own!