Musings on guitars, guitarists, guitar styles and approaches, technical matters and guitar design by a professional guitarist with a Ph.D in ethnomusicology.
Also covering electric bass, lap and pedal steel guitar. And what the hell, banjo.
Back in 1983 when "In A Big Country" by the Scottish band Big Country became a pop (and more importantly for me at the time, video) hit, I was in Grade 9. I had a little group of guitar-playing friends and we would exchange licks and knowledge about the world of guitars, amps and pedals. The scuttlebutt was that Big Country owned rare and coveted pedals (I remember a "Japanese distortion pedal" being mooted) that allowed them to achieve their trademark 'bagpipe' sound.
What was the source of the bagpipe tone? We're still speculating, it seems. According to this blog, they were using the MXR M-129 Pitch Transposer, a rackmounted device. It certainly is rare.
Another guitar gadget of legend was Jimi Hendrix's "secret switch", which I heard bandied about for a few years. It's now claimed that this switch really did exist, possibly installed by Dan Armstrong. A Hendrix guitar with the switch, has, in any case, never been found.
New Brown Sound collection for TONEX!
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TONEX has been my favourite amp plugin since the day it was released and it
only keeps getting better. And the TONEX pedals – the flagship TONEX Pedal
an...
The Roland JC 120 And Jazz Chorus Amplifiers
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*Ray Cummins*One of my good friends is Ray Cummins. You may know of Ray
from his from his tutorials that are found in Vintage Guitar Player
Magazine an...
5 Weird Guitars from Craigslist!
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*guitarz.blogspot.com*:
Hi there. My name is Billy and I’m a writer with Guitartricks.com, where we
teach people how to play guitar online! I’m a huge fa...
Nickel-Silver vs Stainless Steel Frets
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I’ve been noticing a lot more requests lately to re-fret guitars with
Stainless Steel fret wire. I also get asked a ton of questions about the
difference...
Guitar Tone - Why Everything Matters
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"Fracturecaster" by Phil Sylvester of Pheo Guitars, Portland, OR
*CLICK HERE* for more info.
*October, 27, 2016 *
Guitar Tone Wood Factor (Even Solidbod...
Long gap from blogging many projects!
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Has it been that long? Well I have had to stop, ok slow the rate of guitars
being built but lots of other projects have happened in the mean time. 1:
Two V...
Rickenbacker 360 Profile
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Learn all about the guitar that was introduced to the guitar world via
George Harrison on the 1964 Beatles album *A Hard Day's Night*. Features
high-resolu...
Blind Blake: King of Ragtime Blues
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During the mid 1920s, strong sales of 78s by Papa Charlie Jackson and
Blind Lemon Jefferson led Paramount Records to sign Blind Blake, a
swinging, sophist...
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