Guest Angelo
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Hello Lisa,
Thank you so much for your answer, what a relief ! I suppose you have seen the file I made about the history of your guitars. This was the last one that I couldn’t identify, even with the kind help of Tomás.
It’s funny to think that you made your sound quest reverse in respect of the George Harrison’ one.
He started with the Gretsch and evolve towards the Fender Stratocaster sound.
G.H. quote, extract from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6r25HyQSkE
« I didn’t like the sound that I had and it was a Vox sound on a Gretsch , you know in those days, it was early days and we where lucky to have anything, you know ».
Well anyway, you have demonstrated to be able to make the most of the most modest instruments.
Now that you have some « higher end guitar » as you said, you should enjoy enven more playing.
Looking forward to ear some new songs of yours.
I wish you the best.
Angelo
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Thank you Howard for your encouragement but I’m afraid I lost the photographs. They were in my Iphone and it crashed. I can not turn on the device anymore and at Apple store they ask me 40 euros to try to fix it. As it’s a 4s I will rather buy a new one and I will wait till the next public appearance of the MLTs to take another picture. Anyway I don’t need any picture, the moment is engrave in my mind and in my heart.
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Hello Richard,
If you like this guitar so much you can buy one on Ebay
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erratum: it’s a Taylor 712CE-N in June (and not a 714). There’s only 12 fret on the free fingerboard side (not 14).
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and while we are there, this one … (the blue one) MSA?
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Hello everyone. Does anyone have an idea of the brand and type of this Hollow Body guitar?
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Hello everyone. Does anyone have an idea of the brand and type of this Hollow Body guitar?
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Hello Tomas, as you made the effort to search and give me a help. Here is the answer (in red i.o. blue but yet the same guitar).
It’s a Alba, a very cheap beginner guitar.
Why do we spend so much money buying very expensive branded instruments?
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Thank you for your help Tomas. I came to the same dead end as you. I would give up but here, we are in this MLT Fan Club wonderland and I can hope to find a solution to my searching.
By the way are you interested in a Golden Ton? Are you a creazy collector as I am? I found another one on the adds. If you want, I also made a file (word) with all their guitar with specs and good pictures.
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Hi John and thank you but don’t bother you with that. I’ve allready bought my new mobile and have the old one dropped at the store. Apart those pictures of the MLT at the Epstein theatre there wasn’t much of interest in it. I’m confident that the MLTs will reappear some day on stage.. Let’s hope so!
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Hi Lisa,
I am really happy and relieved that you like it. I was a little afraid that it could bothers you to see your guitar copied by a total stranger (even though he is a registred Fan of yours). Know however that if one day you’ll have your guitar stolen (as happened to John with his Gibson J160E) or damage in the belly of an aircraft, f.i., I’ll send mine with all my greetings to you.
First of all I must say that I’m a baby as a guitar player, well, hum.. let’s say intermediate level. However for me, it’s a great guitar, the weight is well balanced thanks to his chambered body, sounds typically british with her single coil pickups (the Vox amp helps to) playability is excellent but the accessibility of the high notes is limited. You would have had much dificulties playing « when my guitar gently weeps » solo translated up high has you did on the duo jet. But above all, I must admit that There’s something inexplicably cool about playing a guitar that looks exactly like what your heroe plays.
I do not fix the bridge to the body as it seems to be the Gretsch advice not to do so, have a look at this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5Mx9Jq8ZFA Personnaly I have no problem with the bridge nor the tuning for I play only little on this guitar but I know the tuning is an issue. Apart the Dusenberg tremolo, the most unique hardware feature on your guitar—at least relative to other current-production Duo Jets—is that the bridge is a “rocking” bar style with a floating wood base, where most modern Duo Jets have ebony pinned bases and either a Synchro-Sonic or a Space Control roller bridge. You swap out your Synchro-sonic bridge for a Compton bar bridge, doing so sacrifices the ability to individually intonate strings. So with my very little knowledge I understand that either you use the floating bridge and the rocking bar (but it regularly gets out of tune if you touch the bridge while playing) or you fixe the bridge by whatever means that suits you (to pin it in place is the Gretsch solution) but in that case you must use a adjustable bridge as mentioned above.
About that email, I’m sorry that it was so heavy and it must have taken a while to upload (iI apologise). I just wanted to let you see what I’m doing with the informations you share with us. In the meanwhile I realised that I’ve made some mistakes for instance you noticed that one of your first 6 steel string is a Maton EM225C natural and not a performer GBG808CL as I though it was. Feel free to let me know if I’m wrong with something else.
About the Cavern club as a sweaty place, I should say that it’s not more like that today because they have installed a very good ventillating and air conditioning system. As crowdy as it was Wednesday 21 and Friday 22, I’ve never been so confortable in a basement club.
From me to you.
Angelo
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Yes it’s this one
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Yes indeed it’s a tough one. I tought of an Aria but you’re right, it’s probably a copy of a ES335 or 355 of an unknown brand and I guess I’ll have to ask it directly to Lisa. Same enigma for the blue one. Thanks for trying.
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Hello Tomas,
I found it looking on the classifieds ads. Quite simply, and I must admit that I verhave been very lucky to find it so quick and also because the guitar is brand new. Sounds good also for such a low price.
What is worth noting is the quality of the musical production of the two sisters with cheap instruments (even if over time they have acquired good material). That proves once again that “it is not the guitar that makes the guitarist “…
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Your welcome. Here is the “Golden Ton”
and if you want it in action, check : Samba Pa Ti – MonaLisa Twins (Carlos Santana Cover) live!