E-minor7
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Well, thanx for the thoughts and replies gentlemen. And pardon for the delay - things have been busy here.
A lot of you say what I expected to hear, , , and it must be confessed that I fished for a little variation.
Have recently been experimenting with goin' back to 11s after at least 20 years of 12s and it's not that risky at all.
If the guitar has pondus and isn't too vague in it self, the 11s can add an elegance which gets kind of over-rolled by the slightly thicker steel. Something airy that shouldn't necessarily be confused with thinness occurs and it makes a good solid acoustic maneuver slightly different. The step down isn't as steep as we tend to believe.To test my observations I took my Mart. D-18 to an acoustic jam the other night and asked my pal (a sworn 12-guy) to play it a bit. He got caught and kept clinging to the hog without noticing the D'Addario 85-15 bronze 11-15-24-32-42-52s at all. Quite a surprise when he found out after half an hour or so. Must say they suit this special slope so well.
Point : don't be afraid to try it out. Yes, you will feel slightly lighter, , , but it'll take you somewhere else. All a bit like changing to summer shoes.
Just wait and see. . .
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As much as the Dove and the Acoustic Firebird follow similar overall patterns, they are highly different.
The first significantly offering one of the genuine classic 'modern' Gibson sounds, , , where the F-bird flies somewhere else, maybe pointing into a more neutral, yet maplish sonic territory. It has been said here that it had some D-35 in its nature. For my 5 Yen that's not especially precise, but I see the point as some sort of abstract illustration. It's a great guitar, however definitely a Gibson. And it's a mightier square than the generous Dove - at times actually too big.
2 wonderful instruments for sure ^^ and both syrup drippers from above, , fat, sticky, co-starring like few others around.
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I just played it 20 minutes ago - looking forward to McMasters version.
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You take a big fat dread and switch the 12s to 11s.
! What happens ?
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2 minutes ago, E-minor7 said:
The steel rings out in a grander way the higher they fly.
And I prefer them frigging low. .
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The discussion about string-height makes me wanna add 5 Yen : Definitely my experience the lower action dampens the sound. Now I'm not a scientist, but everything I've done and own show that pattern. The steel rings out in a grander way the higher they fly.
Apart from that : Is the guitar in Q with solid or laminated maple. The latter I would think, , , but read and been told otherwise !?!?
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Splendid job ^
21 minutes ago, 62burst said:But Dave at Brother's likes the sawdust & superglue fill of the hole & then he re-drills for the pins. The mix gives a nice hard surface for the ball ends to rest.
A good first solution.
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Ha haha he he he heh he. . .
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24 minutes ago, 62burst said:
That's fine. But let me ask a question: If we could make two guitars of the same scale length, but exaggerate the dimensions, say one a three-quarter sized J-45, and one with a box the size of a cello, which would sound tighter, and which would project better? "Just wondering..."
Are you out to blow my mind, , , !!
Just let me repeat that my 2010 J-45 is so much different from my pal's 03 or 05 Historic Collection. And that my 2 Birds born within the same month of 2012 are quite different - tho closer related than the mentioned slopes.
And 62burst -
what if we imagined that an actual hummingbird made a nest inside a Gibson ditto and a cat tripped by activating the strings - would it then sound like a hummingbird or a Hummingbird. .
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5 hours ago, ThemisSal said:
The American Hummingbirds are and addictive enigma for me..
Still searching for the right Hummingbird - after having owned 4 maybe 5.
'Cuse me, I sense this is a psychological thing and who can blame you. Seldom has an acoustic guitar been so special, intriguing, alluring, , , and vulnerable.
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1 hour ago, 62burst said:
How way back were those observations, and have they changed since then? I mean "The projection and 'whelm' of the 45 – will be the most significant difference between the 2."
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"...The Hummingbird being tighter, having more note separation and not that depth"
Funny- the square shouldered body of the Hummingbird seemed to me to allow the sound to develop more first in the box, giving a fuller/rounder sound, where the J-45 allowed the sound to get projected out sooner keeping the mids strong. In the same way the small body of the L-00 can be punchy and loud, where the superjumbo '200 can be a surprisingly quieter guitar.
Actually no - but have to add my 2010 J-45 Std. is an extraordinary strong bear - almost monstrous. And that my TV-Birds have opened up since the lines above. But especially the words about the "The Hummingbird being tighter, having more note separation and not that depth" holds water. Primarily the post 2010s.
Apart from that, it's important to stress that these instruments vary a lot, not least between the vintage and contemporary versions.
But yes, the bunch here more or less confirm the picture - we are talking about 10 guitars, 4 slopes and 6 squares. Vintage as new.
The rule is : No rule should be too strict - it will only make it fall faster
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2 hours ago, fortyearspickn said:
J45 is more mellow... H'Bird projects more clearly. Makes you wonder, given the big difference between square and round shoulders - how can the tone NOT be affected by a cutaway?
Remember there are more factors to this - the highly different back-braces fx.
11 hours ago, billroy said:apologies for the tangent, (but I've never been fortunate enough to play a 'bird) - technically speaking, all else being equal, what would a square shoulder due vs a slope shoulder? ...i.e. how would someone expect a mahogany J45 to differ from a mahogany bird - thank you for any input.
These 2 are quotations from earlier posts :
The projection and 'whelm' of the 45 – will be the most significant difference between the 2. The Hummingbird being tighter, having more note separation and not that depth, which is found in many slopes (and long scale squares).
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To me the basic difference would be -
The Hummingbird is characterized by the much talked about honey glaze – flower juice dripping from the 3 tips of that guard. J-45 is more sitting on the the fence with a straw in the mouth.Then again 'sweet' – yes, I believe the Bird is sweeter, but many Gibsons are sweet. It's a part of the basic G-flavor in a lot of the models, if you ask me.
In my experience there's no such thing as more bass in the square shouldered. They aren't more open as a general rule. But in some way it could be said they are slightly boomier – simply due to the cubic.
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Another attempt from way back was about the J-45 bein' raw, , , with a gentler nature within - whereas the Bird was first sweet then revealing a more primal side.
Well, , , some may disagree, but that's what I got.Let's hear from others - good topic. ^
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I kind of like it, but can't really figure why it changed.
Miss the 'who-are-on-overview' on the bottom of the side and inside the threads.
And would have preferred a new different set of (discrete) colors. The ice-landscape-palette is as far from acoustic guitars as anything I can imagine.And yes, , of course I miss my dear Times New Roman too. .
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10 hours ago, 62burst said:
Not out of the woods by any means, but appreciate the mention.
I see, , so do the ducks. .
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4 hours ago, Lars68 said:
True, but they do migrate frequently. One landed with me here in Sweden a few years back and decided to never leave.
Really ? , , didn't know that (perhaps a vague echo) - did you show us pictures. .
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6 minutes ago, impresarius said:
Thanks - that’s what I thought, they’re only USA made aren’t they..?
Can't believe you'll find a real Bird born anywhere else.
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13 minutes ago, impresarius said:
Hi there,
Is there such a thing as a genuine Korea-made Gibson Hummingbird?
Wouldn't think so - lot and lots of kitsch-copies over the years especially in the 70s, believe me. .
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15 hours ago, Murph said:
He looked so young in those old pics...
And vice versa
17 hours ago, 62burst said:Looking back for photos some four pages, they still seem to be there. Yes?
Yea, sure, , but I'm further back in the precious archive.
Okay, a lot of them were gone already - perhaps due the fatal Bucket-change - but we had loads of pure photo-gold behind us. TONS !
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22 minutes ago, 62burst said:
I can relate. (unfortunately)
Been somewhat relieving to see the black banner go - thought about mentioning it a couple of days ago, but forgot.
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11 hours ago, blindboygrunt said:
Moot ?
Martin-out-of-topic - as the double guitar says Gibson on the headstock, that's it.
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23 minutes ago, 62burst said:
We can no longer chose font type? 'Believe you'd used Times New Roman.
🐧. Looks like we gained emojis that were only available when on the mobile devices.
Yes, you're right - used that font from the very beginning. Found it easier to read and liked the opportunity to choose.
Was generally into Times New Roman at the time - still use it in all private mails.
🌻🌸🐌💃a whole lot of colors and signs to play with indeed 🐙. . . . . . . . .
5 arms mean 2 guitars and a harp
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54 minutes ago, 62burst said:
Poor mr Emin7 hasn't gotten to using his impossible-to-quote format/font fest . . . Yet. The inhumanity of looking like everyone else's post.
Is it stil available 😵!?!, , , I know you rose the topic before, but why the heck was my former font so harrrrd to quote. . !?!
Just can't see the logic.
Eehh, has the emojis lost color ? , , , not that I used them a lot.
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I won't be the one to complain. Still it seems all past photos are gone - quite a loss for the Board. On this pc the quotation-boxes are ppzzzzt too. All in all it looks pretty chaotic back there.
That's life, , , apparently. But it feels like modernizing the museum did cost a serious part of the artifacts.Well, , , at least we have the threads and words.
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8 hours ago, j45nick said:
Hmm.... interesting that Keef appears to be playing a Heritage 12 in that video . According to Fabulous Flat Tops, those weren't built until '68 or '69, but there it is for all to see in '66.
Reasons to believe this is a so called sing-back performance. Jagger singing live to a recorded track while Richards is miming (and the strings just appear).
Keith probably played his 12-string Harmony H 1270 on the track.
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If the first Crows were un-scalloped it's certainly new to me.
I regained my interest - later passion - for acoustic Gibsons via my brother's CW S.C. around the millennium.
Almost sure that pale square was scalloped - the light response was actually the reason it appealed to me.
Still, , , can be wrong here. Would be a huge surprise.