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non-gibby though' date=' it would have to be the harmony sovereign that gave the world 'stairway to heaven'. sidenote: he played the guitar solo on a tele.

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A non-Gibby for me would be Willie's Martin (N-20 I believe. "Trigger").

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jkinnama, thanks for mentioning Paul Geremia. I think that he's the finest 12 string ragtime/blues player alive. Actually, finest acoustic blues player alive, 6 or 12 string.

 

My own personal music career highlight occured some years ago when I opened for Paul. Best was swapping guitars afterwords. That Tonk Bros. 12-string was scary!

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Ditto JT. Just had a quick look at his website and very impressed.

 

Check him out while you can get it guys--and gals. "[His] Tonk Bros. 12-string was scary" His recent Fraulini (Todd Cambio) is a non-Gibson that could get me going. A friend let me borrow his for a short spell. Unique sound. Btw, also got to pick on Frank Fotusky's Square Deal (Jack Needham) OM, without a doubt the best midrange Ive heard in an OM, and his Bozeman 35. Check the links. JK

 

Statesboro Blues on Paul's Fraulini 12-string

Frank Fotusky plays 39 9th St on his Neddham OM

Frank pays Arrangement for Me Blues on his Bozeman J35

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YTqkLeBNm4

Frank's Fotusky's page: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=1534596

Todd Cambio/Fraulini: http://www.fraulini.com/index.html

Jack Needham/Square deal: http://web.mac.com/jackneedham/iWeb/Site/Welcome.html

Paul G: http://www.paulgeremia.org/

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First post after the OP, I cracked that one.....

 

It met with such stone-faced indifference I edited it out after about ten posters ignored it and put in a serious answer. I thought it was amusing first time around, and I still think it's amusing. Lets see what the rest of 'em have to say.....

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Charlie Christian's ES-150

 

And when I was a kid I lived in Spain and, aged ten (1962/3), got my first serious guitar, hand crafted in the area by a local luthier who claimed to know Segovia, and claimed to have based it on the Hauser AS was then using. So, although it is not a Gibson, and although I would not want to touch it, let alone play it, I WOULD like to hear one more piece played live and intimate on Segovia's Hauser (now in the Met, New York).

 

Segovia practised (I quote) 'five hours daily in 1.25 hour increments, emphasizing the need to practice scales to maintain sound technique'. Never knew what that last part meant, never able to spend that ammount of time, and thus - never that good. Sigh.....

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Like John's J-160E
I saw John's 1964 at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame about two months ago... I held my hand on the glass for at least ten minutes. I remember every detail about that guitar... his pickup was apparently cut in half when he moved it to the bridge... the sketches on the body were carved and then filled in with ink, as far as I can tell... the pickguard is peeling... He never did clip the strings at the headstock, they were all neatly wound and tucked underneath.

 

The Japanese coin wasn't on the strap, like you see in a lot of photos.

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I'm with you on this one TW (which is quite alarming!)

 

Har de har har' date=' matey!! Be afraid, be very afraid. Actually, I have had this strange urge, lately, to add up huge columns of numbers, or perhaps to become an embezzler of sorts. Odd, what? ( I also agree with you on the Eagles on another thread so that's a double whammy on you brother!! Cheers!)[/color']

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