TommyK Posted July 18, 2008 Share Posted July 18, 2008 http://www.epiphone.com/thevintagecollection/vintage4.html Look at the bridge.... no saddle.?!?!?!?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLiveSoundGuy Posted July 18, 2008 Share Posted July 18, 2008 No saddle. Wonder if maybe it was a free-standing saddle, and it's just missing? Good find! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyK Posted July 18, 2008 Author Share Posted July 18, 2008 No saddle. Wonder if maybe it was a free-standing saddle' date=' and it's just missing? Good find! [img']http://www.epiphone.com/thevintagecollection/images/1930Recording1.jpg[/img] Not particularly hard to find. Go to Epiphone's main page, click on the thumbnail in the lower right entitled "The Vintage Collection." It's the "Recording 4" guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jefleppard Posted July 18, 2008 Share Posted July 18, 2008 where does the term 'recording guitar' come from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLiveSoundGuy Posted July 18, 2008 Share Posted July 18, 2008 Dunno, but I would bet it was a marketing term. Even back then. I mean if it was good enough for the pros to use for recordings, then it's gotta be good right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jefleppard Posted July 18, 2008 Share Posted July 18, 2008 Dunno' date=' but I would bet it was a marketing term. Even back then. I mean if it was good enough for the pros to use for recordings, then it's gotta be good right? [/quote'] most likely, LSG. i'll bet KSD or JK would know for sure of the term's origin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyK Posted July 18, 2008 Author Share Posted July 18, 2008 At first blush I'm thinking 'Recording' would be equivalent to 'Artist'. i.e. all the tone without the bling. But... this 'Recording 4' seems to be blingy. Remember too that, I think it was Gibson, that sold a banjo called "The Electric Banjo". Nope, no pick-ups, no wires, no electrics just a banjer with, at the time as Edison was electrifying the world, a hot sounding name. I've even seen where, in Japan, a brand of rice was sold with the English word "Radioactive" emblazoned across the front. Probably just because it looked cool and more 'Western'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyK Posted July 18, 2008 Author Share Posted July 18, 2008 No saddle. Wonder if maybe it was a free-standing saddle' date=' and it's just missing? Good find![/quote'] I'm not seeing any foot prints, though... curious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLiveSoundGuy Posted July 18, 2008 Share Posted July 18, 2008 I didn't mean freestanding as in an archtop bridge would be. I meant a piece of freestanding bone that sat on the bridge itself, just in front of the drop off. Kind of like this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jefleppard Posted July 18, 2008 Share Posted July 18, 2008 what LSG said seems to be the case. though these are tenors, the saddle is tucked into the bridge rise. though the strings w/o the saddle seem to pull up the back of the bridge piece so contact is limited, the strings would still buzz, wouldn't they? http://www.vintageinstruments.com/museum/epirectnrfulpage.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyK Posted July 21, 2008 Author Share Posted July 21, 2008 I didn't mean freestanding as in an archtop bridge would be. I meant a piece of freestanding bone that sat on the bridge itself' date=' just in front of the drop off. Kind of like this one. [img']http://www.epiphone.com/thevintagecollection/images/1930Model4Archtop3.jpg[/img] Ah... So.... I didn't see the rabbet. The FS saddle is just missing on that example. Probably gave one the opportunity to adjust intonation abit too. Quite ingenius that Stathopoulo familiy. I learned something today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave in SLC Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 Remember too that' date=' I think it was Gibson, that sold a banjo called "The Electric Banjo". Nope, no pick-ups, no wires, no electrics just a banjer with, at the time as Edison was electrifying the world, a hot sounding name. I've even seen where, in Japan, a brand of rice was sold with the English word "Radioactive" emblazoned across the front. Probably just because it looked cool and more 'Western'. [/quote'] A.C. Fairbanks -- which later was purchased by Vega -- offered the 'Fairbanks Electric,' a lighter-built precursor to the 'Fairbanks Whyte Laydie.' For some historic background, see http://www.mugwumps.com/acf_date.htm . Also, I remember in the Fifties (1950s, that is! <smile>), when everything was 'Atomic this' and 'Atomic that.' Dave in SLC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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