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Thanks for posting the pic. I know what Teles, Strats, and Les Pauls look like so it's interesting to see someone's custom instrument.

I think that it has about the right amount of adornments. I like understated guitars better. I would have put fretboard inlays on it though, but that's because I suck.

rcannonp wrote:I think that it has about the right amount of adornments. I like understated guitars better. I would have put fretboard inlays on it though, but that's because I suck.

Heh. There are position markers on the edge of the fretboard.

I like understated, too. Didn't even want a pick-guard, really, but got the clear classical one because someone else might play it. (And in spite of this there's a scratch on the front to the upper left in the pic. )

Frodo wrote:
Dunno-- the Gent and the Steiny are indeed two very different instruments, but that may be a good reason to have them both. I have two solid bodies, so I'm sure my next one will be a hollow body. I need to choose between the Gent and the Gretsch Tennessean. Then, the winner will be in the final three along with an Epiphone Casino and one of the Gibson Archtops. I'm also taking notes on amps and peripherals from everyone's posts here.

Well, of course, my dear hobbit! If one can have *both*, one should! (Hence my Trini & and Trini Deluxe in addition to the Steiny.) Different sounds for different er, mounds. One needs a solid, a semi, and a hollow-bodied guitar!

wheever wrote:One needs a solid, a semi, and a hollow-bodied guitar!

Or at least TWO of each!!

oh good lord, yes. AT LEAST two!

what a great thread!

How could I forget Guthrie Govan from my faves

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsCKpRzfMzU

Wow! How much fun was THAT!!

It seemed so simple and straightforward that you can forget it was in 7/4. It was so wonderfully organic-- the way he was able to solo so effortlessly. And yet, the complexities are not at all hidden. I really enjoyed watching that-- had never seen it before.

Besides that, I'm not sure yet if I want to go practice my face off or to put the guitar down altogether and to just keep with the piano.

Amazing stuff, that Guthrie.

1. Of the guitars you own, which one(s) are your favorite to play and why?

Yamaha Grand. Smooth action, balanced tone.

2. Of the guitars you do not own, which one(s) do you covet and why?

Bosendorfer 9' Imperial Concert Grand. Have played several and they basically play what I think!

3. What are your preferred pre's, heads, cabinets and cables-- and style of music?

Pre: Honey???
Head: Prefer not to say.
Cabinet: Liquor
Cable: Umbilical.
Styles: Baroque -> mid-Romantic; Mozart, Bach & Beethoven.

4. Strings!! Gauge? Brand? Frequency you change them?

Yamaha originals. From 13 to 6 gauge (wound bass). About every 50 years.

5. Name your top five favorite guitarists or bassists of all time.

Daniel Barenboim, Arthur Rubinstein, V. Horowitz, Oscar Peterson and (at the risk of sounding like an egomaniac) myself.

OK, ok. I know. I was just feeling a little left out!

MLC said

Bosendorfer 9' Imperial Concert Grand. Have played several and they basically play what I think!

A friend of mine who has 3 grands has one it is quite the piano. The extra low keys realy rumble the room.

MLC I would like to see you strap one on and jump around the stage.

MIDI Life Crisis wrote:
OK, ok. I know. I was just feeling a little left out!

From one pianist to another, I confess to having a lifelong secret love interest on the side. The slenderer, curvier, cuddlier guitar is my naughty obsession whereas the piano is the woman I "was supposed to" marry-- and did.

But the piano is a homebody, she doesn't like to travel, and as time goes by she becomes increasingly high-maintenance. Sometimes she even asks to be left alone.

Ah, what do I know?

Didn't mean to leave my fellow pianists at home barefoot and practicing. Once I get my guitar situation figured out, I'll be quite keen to pick the brains of pianists.

FWIW:

1. I own a Petrof 6'2" grand with Hamburg 'Renner' action (found in Hamburg Steinways)

2. I covet a genuine Hamburg Steinway-- and, speaking of cheating-- a B3.

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5. Murray Perahia, Alicia de Larrochia, Van Cliburn, Richter, Richard Goode, Oscar Peterson, Enrico Pieranunzi, Nat King Cole

Frodo wrote:

MIDI Life Crisis wrote:
OK, ok. I know. I was just feeling a little left out!

From one pianist to another, I confess to having a lifelong secret love interest on the side. The slenderer, curvier, cuddlier guitar is my naughty obsession whereas the piano is the woman I "was supposed to" marry-- and did.

But the piano is a homebody, she doesn't like to travel, and as time goes by she becomes increasingly high-maintenance. Sometimes she even asks to be left alone.

Ah, what do I know?

Didn't mean to leave my fellow pianists at home barefoot and practicing. Once I get my guitar situation figured out, I'll be quite keen to pick the brains of pianists.

FWIW:

1. I own a Petrof 6'2" grand with Hamburg 'Renner' action (found in Hamburg Steinways)

2. I covet a genuine Hamburg Steinway-- and, speaking of cheating-- a B3.

<snip>

5. Murray Perahia, Alicia de Larrochia, Van Cliburn, Richter, Richard Goode, Oscar Peterson, Enrico Pieranunzi, Nat King Cole

My little side chick is a tin whistle. She fits in my shirt pocket and can go anywhere, though she sets off metal detectors like crazy. I've been in a lot of jam sessions where it would get around to my turn, and I'd pull out my tin whistle and blow people's minds. Heck, I'm not even that good! It's just such a novelty. But for a wind player, it's so nice to have something that doesn't require a huge case.

Shooshie

twistedtom wrote:
MLC I would like to see you strap one on and jump around the stage.

I can take that several ways...

Frodo wrote:...guitar is my naughty obsession whereas the piano is the woman I "was supposed to" marry-- and did.

But the piano is a homebody, she doesn't like to travel...I own a Petrof 6'2" grand with Hamburg 'Renner' action ...

5. Murray Perahia, Alicia de Larrochia, Van Cliburn, Richter, Richard Goode, Oscar Peterson, Enrico Pieranunzi, Nat King Cole

Dude, that's 8, you're only allowed 5 (unless you think 8 pianists = 5 guitarists.) BTW, anyone mention Django Reinhart?

I played a 9' 6" new Petroff last month and loved it! At 75k it was a steal!

But I disagree about the piano not traveling I do a lot of performances where I use a Kurxweil PC2. In a good theater with a great sound system, even a few pianists don't realize it's an electric until they see it. Good ears can always tell the difference, and trained fingers... well, you know.

As far as "my naughty obsession" you'll have to search my recent posts in another section to find that!

MIDI Life Crisis wrote:

twistedtom wrote: MLC I would like to see you strap one on and jump around the stage.

I can take that several ways...

This one had me worried too, but you beat me with it.
I mean, you beat me to it, Mike.

MIDI Life Crisis wrote:... As far as "my naughty obsession" you'll have to search my recent posts in another section to find that!

I'll save him the trouble:

Every gal's got two of 'em. Actually, so has every guy.
Dang, you're a confusing beast, Mortilla Gorilla.

monkey man wrote: Dang, you're a confusing beast...

You mean a confusing breast, don't you?