Jerry K
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Nice to see people digging their guitars. Where's that popcorn?
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Though I didn't mind the electronics on my J-35 I never really used them (maybe that's why I didn't mind them).
I took the electronics out myself the other day, took about 30 min all in. Pretty easy to take them out, little bit of naptha to remove the sticky residue left by the stick on wire holder pieces. I still have to plug the end jack and fill two tiny screw holes on the neck block left by the battery pack.
It's not an under-saddle transducer? Part of my object in removing pickups is getting that out, necessitating a new saddle, all of which would take me more than 30 minutes, I think.
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+1 on the electronics. I just dropped off a 165 to get all that pulled out, among other things. I really wonder how many buyers actually end up using that? The end plugs often become loose and is harder to put a strap on, the wires inside get loose, the battery is a pita... It's probably a selling point. I have no use for those things. If they dropped the pickups and lowered the price it would be even better.
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'The Christmas Song'
Dbmaj7 Ebm7 Fm7 Gbmaj7 Fm7 Ebm7
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire
Dbma7 Abm7 Db7b9 Gbmaj7 Gbm7 B9 B7
Jack Frost nipping at your nose
Dbmaj7 B7 Bbm7 Gm7 C7b9
Yuletide carols being sung by a choir
Fmaj7 F#m7 B7b9 Emaj7 C#m7 Ebm9 Ab13
And folks dressed up like Eskimos.......everybody
Dbmaj7 Ebm7 Fm7 Gbmaj7 Fm7 Ebm7
knows a turkey and some mistletoe
Dbmaj7 Abm7 Db7b9 Gbmaj7 Gbm7 B9
Help to make the season bright
Dbmaj7 B7 Bbm7 Gm7 C7b9
Tiny tots with their eyes all aglow
Fm7 E7 Ebm7 Ab13 Dbma7
Will find it hard to sleep tonight
A#m7 Am7 Abm7 Db7b9 Gbmaj7 Gdim
They know that Santa's on his way
Abm7 Db7b9 Gbmaj7 Gb13
He's loaded lots of toys and goodies on his sleigh
Gb+ Gbm7 B7 Emaj7 E7
And every mother's child is gonna spy
Eb Ab+
To see if reindeer really know how to fly
Dbmaj7 Ebm7 Fm7 Gbmaj7 Fm7 Ebm7
And so I'm offering this simple phrase
Dbmaj7 Abm7 Db7b9 Gbmaj7 Gbm7 B7
To kids from one to ninety-two
Dbmaj7 B7 Bbm7 Gm7 C7b9
Although it's been said many times, many ways
Fm7 Bbm7 Ebm9 Ab13 Db6
Merry Christmas to you
Unfortunately the bulletin board software does not preserve the relationship between chord and lyric too well but that is what I was playing. The interesting thing in this tune is the seeming chromatic movement in the area: " a choir, and folks dressed up like Eskimos". There are two II-V progressions, one starting from Gm7 and the next begins a half step down from that.
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=D> Well well done, sir! You have a mastery of the fingerboard I envy. Well done, sir, well done.Thank you Buc. I very much admire your work on both guitar and uke. Here's something I have been playing recently. I didn't use to like this tune; renditions I heard in the 60's were overwrought or syrupy and didn't move me. Recently I heard a version of this by Scott Bakula accompanying himself on piano and liked it so here, modeled somewhat after Bakula's piano comping, is my guitar version on a 165.
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Gibson , would not ship a guitar out of the factory with 9/64 bass 3/64 treble action.
Totally agree. Anyone who has been there knows it. The thing is there are too many variables here. String heights can go all over the place due to humidity alone, even if the setup was absolutely perfect at the factory. What matters is neck angle, not action, on a received instrument. And no measured parameters mean anything unless you control for humidity.
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In my observations which are based on personal experience and reviewing over a dozen Gibsons and Taylors, I find it hard to believe that one can say Gibson would never ship a guitar with a high action setup.
Oh wow, you checked out over a dozen Gibsons and Taylors! Was this all at one store? That is not much of a sample, you know. People on AGF and other spots will insist that Gibson quality control on action (and other issues) is inconsistent. Actually it is pretty consistent. I know that from checking out hundreds of guitars and spending time at the factory and Music Villa.
As long as the neck angle is good, it does not matter what the action is when you receive the guitar and it is better to get it a little high. Action is easily adjusted, especially when you are going lower.
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The standard factory setup puts the action at an ok height, a tiny bit higher than I usually use. But that is on the factory floor in Bozeman or at nearby Music Villa. Once a guitar is shipped somewhere else the setup can and often does change for a variety of reasons, mainly humidity but some of it is the wood and glue structure settling into a stable position. It's hard to be certain what has happened to a guitar once it leaves the factory. It may have been stored at a less than optimum humidity. Sometimes people muck around with them or change the string gauge, etc.
In the end the guitar is a dynamic equilibrium of forces and bracing and glue and humidity such that action may settle at a slightly different spot than it was at the factory, once it has sat in your home environment for a few weeks. That's why we have luthiers. A decent setup can turn a balky, muffled guitar into an effortlessly played tone monster. Don't skip the setup.
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The factory set up is sort of medium action. This is because it is easy to lower action by sanding the bottom of the saddle but to make it higher is more trouble: you need to shim it or use a new saddle. So it's better to start a little on the high side and carefully take it down to where you want it. Action is affected by many things, so no one can really tell you what is going on with your new guitar without seeing it up close. The best thing to do is take it to a luthier and get a professional setup based upon the type of playing you like to do. A luthier can also evaluate neck set, intonation and frets and other potential issues and this will help you decide if you want to keep the guitar.
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Thanks Bayou Bengal and Dan.
I used a Kodak Zi8 standalone. Just a tiny camera the size of an iphone. It is ok and yet I feel it doesn't reveal much sense of depth, a stereo sense of the room. (The room is not terribly good either, might be able use a small room...) I sometimes feed the output from a Sony PCM M-10 into it, which is better, but still somehow lacking. I think I am going set up a couple mic stands with some condenser mics I have and feed into either a Zoom or a Tascam I have and I suppose route the audio to the Kodak Zi8 again or perhaps sync up audio and video later.
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Saturday night on a 185. Come on, sing along.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNQh74tMK4c
Edit:
Actually I had been planning to record a more complete treatment of this tune, with some different elements. Saturday night, slightly inebriated, I decided the time had come to record so I dragged out the tripod and the video camera and got that set up and then proceeded to do some checks for distance of the camera - it's a very simple unit and a lot depends on how close the mic is to the sound. After I made two or three checks I kicked back for a minute to refresh the spirit and somehow or other by the time I thought about resuming recording the inspiration was gone. So what I had was the sound checks, one above. Here's another one, which may be a bit more representative of the 185's sound. Mojo-jojo or somebody was asking about it.
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Here is a tune that tennroots and I came up with, titled "Opa's Dream" in honor of my late father
Nice little jam there. I like the voicing you have chosen, sort of the opposite of what you usually expect with guitar and mandolin, with the mandolin doing the chords this time and guitar leads.
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Nice riff, Murph!
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I was playing around with this last night. It was introduced by Bing Crosby in a 1960 film about a retired business magnate going to college, titled "High Times" (that name might not have been chosen just a few short years later). I know, I need a young woman to do the singing, preferably looking a bit like Michelle Pfeiffer.
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One of the strengths of the various incarnations of Gibson acoustic has been its willingness to experiment and innovate. That's not to say I'm going to rush out and exchange rubles for everything they ever tried, but... Quite a few good designers have played with building a laminate for the back, such as the Selmer-Maccaferri gypsy guitars.
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Here is a tune I wrote today. Blues King
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hePcawp0xuA
Edit: Hmnn.. well I just threw this together and I see there are a few clinkers in there. Will try to put up a better version later.
Later:
Here's a bit better version of the vocal
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Do they make J-100s any more or has that turned into J-200 Studio?
=D> Well well done, sir! You have a mastery of the fingerboard I envy. Well done, sir, well done.
Your Acoustical Performances!!!
in Gibson Acoustic
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I played a 12 fret 200 at Music Villa a few years ago. Beautiful sound. Wish I had bought it.