anyone play guitar

[sonicdmb]

Not a guitar but I have just finished building this Electric Octave Mandola/Mandolin depending who you ask. Humbucker pickup Birdseye maple head stock veneer, ash neck mahogany body. set up for Humbucking coil cut and series. waiting on a sterio jack socket so I can add the piezo with output via a A B Y pedal with pre amp built in. Resizing photo seems to of blurred it

Edited July 6, 2014 by sonicdmb

[double10]

Fender strat and a classical

[Magus69]

Guitars where do I start ? : I have 2 Line 6 Variax's first is a Variax 700 electro acoustic, second is a Variax 500 Electric, I have 2 Ibanez guitars first is an RG570 (which gets used the most) second is a JS1200CA , I have a Yngwie Malmsteen signature strat that I have swapped out the pickups and tremelo to give more sustain , recently sold a Gibson Les Paul to fund the strat , I have a takamine 12 string electro acoustic (can't remember the model without looking) and an ageing Eko J-51 6 string electro acoustic .

Mike ...

[wymberley]

I'm still pretty rubbish, hampered by learning to read music on the piano when I was very young and I've never got past the habit of trying to see the guitar fret like a keyboard, and the guitar just doesn't work like that so I don't know my way intuitively round the fret board.

 

Isn't that a *****r! As a lad I used to play (well, I made a noise) trumpet in a marching band. Someone found some fifes which for us to use and the old boy who taught us several tunes used to finish each session by playing his banjo for us. He was incredible and I've never forgotten it - I can still hear him playing 'Dinghy Patrol' even now. Now I'm slowing down I decided that I'd have a go and was given one for Christmas. I also did the obligatory piano bit and find I have exactly the same problem.

[Beretta06]

You need to speak to Ziggy

[Mick Shaw]

I have four acoustic's one of which is a12 string Yamaha, one epiphone sheriton semi acoustic, A Peavy (strat copy) a Marlin sidewinder (strat copy) two maurice Smith hand made electrics, one Tele and a PRS. and three hand made by myself, My version of a super strat, a matching 4 string bass and my version of a Gibson S.G.

Of all these I seem to favor the Marlin and can get an incredable tone from it through a Marshall stack. I play mostly blues/rock some soft rock and a little country,

Mick.

 

P.S. I am thinking of thinning down my Guitar collection as I have with my gun colection, so if any one is looking for something special drop me a PM

[Gimlet]

Isn't that a *****r! As a lad I used to play (well, I made a noise) trumpet in a marching band. Someone found some fifes which for us to use and the old boy who taught us several tunes used to finish each session by playing his banjo for us. He was incredible and I've never forgotten it - I can still hear him playing 'Dinghy Patrol' even now. Now I'm slowing down I decided that I'd have a go and was given one for Christmas. I also did the obligatory piano bit and find I have exactly the same problem.

 

I think children who want to learn to read music and learn the guitar should learn the piano at the same time. Its the musical equivalent of bringing them up bilingual. Trying to do that later in life is much more difficult.