JohnW63
Enlightened Member
I guess there isn't REALLY a specific guitar for a given style. You play the style you like on what you can buy.
I guess there isn't REALLY a specific guitar for a given style. You play the style you like on what you can buy.
if you have choices, you make them
It seems there are no hard rules, though. I've asked enough electric guitar questions in this forum alone, to realize that everyone has their own opinion, and those opinions are rather nebulous. It almost always comes down to " Play what YOU like. " , but finding any of the guitars mentioned, without becoming a buy and return or buy and sell machine, is difficult.
Yes, you could simplify it to that, but I'm not enough of a "'leccie guy" to be familiar with how that might have affected the pickup offerings.Al,
Could I simplify what you wrote to say, the older ones were targeted to the Jazz crowd, and that by the time they moved to Westerly, they were changing the designs to accommodate the more modern music ?
Did they then have more guitars with humbuckers and less with single coils in the lineup ? ( Assuming the sound preference was moving toward more over driven tones for rock music )
Ironically, great players can pick up various guitars, play them, and most people will have a hard time discerning one guitar from another. Jimmy Bruno has played various guitars over the years, but to me he always sounds the same. I've said before that tone and feel are very subjective. Any style can be played on almost any guitar. Find what sounds and feels right to you, and don't worry about what others think.
Sorry for the veer posts, then.
too bad they're laminated.
To continue the veer why is it reasonable to expect anything else?
Yep, Frono can be pretty dry sometimes.I sort of took this as a hint , as it was in response to my last question:
too bad they're laminated.
I sort of took this as a hint , as it was in response to my last question:
too bad they're laminated.
Don't understand your comment. Most of the outstanding original Guild electric models from 1953 and onwards (even the top models like the X-500) had laminated bodies and laminated spruce tops. It's funny when people sell their 50ies M-75 Aristocrat and claim they have solid spruce tops, no they were laminated! Guess what a Starfire is made of? Laminated wood.too bad they're laminated.
They always were.too bad they're laminated.
SFIV1967 said:Now if you really want a solid spruce top on a vintage Guild Jazz guitar you need to get like a Johnny Smith Award or Artist Award model, A-150, A-350, A-50, CA-100, CA-500, X-700 or so.
Ralf