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From: plyall@lookout.it.uswc.uswest.com (Pete Lyall)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: Which Fender Strat is best ?
Date: 4 Sep 92 14:45:12 GMT
Organization: U S WEST Information Technologies

I concur...

I own both a Strat Plus, and a Squier Strat, and each is beautiful in it's
own way....

On the Squier, I put new pickups in (Seymour Duncan Hot Rails in the neck and bridge, and
a single coil stack in the middle), custom wiring (for any combination and coil tapping),
and I put a locking trem system on (Washburn Wonderbar). The result was a very punchy (Les
Paul'ish?), darker than usual Strat. It's great for some types of sounds (Queen, Steve
Morse, Santana, etc.), but I still prefer the Strat Plus (with a SD Hot Rail at the
bridge, adjusted farther away from the strings for better definition) for some blues &
funk, and the bite-ier sounding rock.

Both quitars play very well (they _have_ been set up, and the frets have been tweaked
on the Squier), and I go through phases where I play one to the exclusion of the other.

Pete Lyall

-- 
Pete Lyall [USWest]        Compuserve: 76703,4230           Internet: plyall@uswest.com
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"... So I picked up my pride from beneath the pay phone, and combed his breath 
right outta my hair. And sometimes, it's not so easy ..." J. Hendrix/My Friend
From: harper@godot.think.com (Jim Harper)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re:Ty Tybors sound/Pearce Amps
Date: 26 Aug 92 11:08:41
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
Distribution: alt
NNTP-Posting-Host: godot.think.com

For those who read the other post about Pearce amps going
out of business thats wrong. For a short time they were
out of business but are now back and sell through some
dealers and also direct. My bass player just got their
bass preamp and it smokes big time !!!

Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: mirk@nim.ctt.bellcore.com (Andy Mirkis)
Subject: Re: Looking for a 12 string....
Summary: Ovation 12 string
Keywords: Ovation 12 string
Organization: Bell Communications Research, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 22:06:34 GMT


>Howdy all... I've recently become interested in getting ahold of a 
>12 string.  I just love the sound.  I've been looking around, playing
>lots of different guitars.  Currently I've got my eye on an Ovation
>with pickup, though they want $600 for it (with case).... I don't really
>know the model, though I'm guessing it is the bottom of the line 12
>string/pickup that they make.  Any comments?  Any recommendations for
>12 strings?  Pickups are not really necessary, so any 12 string will do....
>

I am also very interested in buying a 12 string.  I was looking at
an ovation that looked and sounded great.  I believe it was from the
pinicle (sp) series.  According to the salesperson there are three
"levels" of ovation quality: the lowest being those made in Korea,
the highest being those made in the U.S. and the pinicle series
(made in Japan) somewhere in between.

I was this close to buying it but I was a little uneasy with all
the talk of Ovations spliting below the bridge.  I don't know of
this happening first hand and the sales person said it was not a
problem (as the dollar signs rolled in his eyes).  I like the action
of the Ovations and the electronics are nice to have as well.  Anyone
out there own an ovation 12 string??  Any comments??

-Mirk

------------------------------
Andy Mirkis
Bell Communications Research
Piscataway, New Jersy
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From: mpinkert@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Snowden )
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: Guitar Lesson
Date: 29 Aug 92 02:31:11 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

this is a test

sorry

Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: scam@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (JOE JR. SAGGIO)
Subject: acoustic
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Distribution: usa
Date: 26 Aug 1992 16:35 EST  

I recently bought a Takamine acoustic with built in pickup in the tailpeice
  It is the best acoustic I've ever seen or played.  It lists for about 
1K and I bought it used from a good friend at a music store for around 
400.00. The direct sound is fantastic and when you combine the direct 
signal, straight into the board, with a mic input into the board the result
gives me a boner.  The playability is phenomenal, however, I strung it with
10's and adjusted the neck to give a very easy action.  I did lose a little 
volume but the result was worth it.

joe


Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: 11439106@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (SHAWN FOO)
Subject: Re: Why so few people have perfect pitch
Organization: Faculty of Engineering, Monash University 
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 01:36:07 GMT

In article <17bi9cINNfse@network.ucsd.edu> mbreen@sdacs.ucsd.edu (Michael Breen) writes:
>From: mbreen@sdacs.ucsd.edu (Michael Breen)
>Subject: Re: Why so few people have perfect pitch
>Date: 24 Aug 1992 20:54:04 GMT
>In article <11439106.11.714635904@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au> 11439106@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (SHAWN FOO) writes:
>[all the meaningful stuff deleted]
>>	And, what about those ads you see in Guitar magazines about that Guy 
>                                                                 ^^^^^^^
>>who claims that you can have perfect pitch if you send $100 for some 
>>cassttes or something.... Anyone know if that works??
>>
>>	
>
>No need to deify this person by capitalizing reference to him.  I've given
>up capitalizing references to 'god' until somebody gives me a definition
>worthy of deification.
>
>Michael Breen
>singing and philosophizing
>(and wondering why we capitalize 'i' in reference to ourselves)

ooops...sorry michael...:)
From: scrs_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Shorts)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Hendrix - Wind Cries Mary Tab Wanted
Date: 26 Aug 92 01:39:09 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)

wanted:
	Wind Cries Mary 
		Jimi Hendrix
	(Pref. Studio Version)

thanks
Shorts
From: easteee@wkuvx1.bitnet
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: dokken/Mr. Scary
Date: 31 Aug 92 13:37:28 GMT
Organization: Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY

In article <5837.1288.uupcb@spacebbs.com>, mike.mcaulay@spacebbs.com (Mike Mcaulay) writes:
> easteee@wkuvx1.bitnet writes:
> 
> EA>In article <HARPER.92Aug25113017#godot.think.com>, harper@godot.think.com (J
> EA>arper) writes:> I was wondering if anyone knows the tab to the solo in Dokke
> EA>> "Tooth and Nail" (I tried alt guitar tab but to no avail).
> 
> EA>Have you got around to learning "Mr. Scary" yet?  It's pretty
> EA>rewarding..   I've figured out most of the rhythm sections, but the
> EA>solo spots are particularly complex and tricky--few are easy to hear
> EA>right off the bat.  Do you know of any tab books that have this song
> EA>in them?  I've been looking forever.  The only think I can come up
> EA>with are those books that tell you what notes the rhythm guitar is
> EA>playing (and they don't bother to be precise, either).
> 
> It was transcribed in Guitar For The Practicing Musician a few years ago
> (just after the album came out, I think).  Actually, they may have
> transcribed the live version...  anyway, check a current issue for their
> back issues advertisement.
> 
> M.
> ---
>  . SLMR 2.1 . Quack!!!
>                   


Actually, I remember that I do have a transcription of the live
version of Mr. Scary, but I think that is in Guitar World, and the
transcription is only of Lynch's 7 minute (?) intro...  They should
have went ahead and transcribed the whole thing..The end part is what
I'm looking for.. (like the version on 'Back for the Attack'). 
I'll try looking in GFTPM...

Treewire-
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Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: schouten@sp1.csrd.uiuc.edu (Dale Schouten)
Subject: Re: Strap buttons
Organization: Center for Supercomputing R & D
	<1685688B2.ADCBB@VM.CC.LATECH.EDU> <DJM.92Sep2133224@jolt.eng.umd.edu>
Date: 2 Sep 92 13:10:48

In article <DJM.92Sep2133224@jolt.eng.umd.edu> djm@eng.umd.edu (David J. MacKenzie) writes:
>> Screw it into the lower side of the neck heel.  Going into the lower side
>> helps the button to bind better.
> I just had this done on my Yamaha acoustic at a local music shop.
> Parts + labor was about $5.  They too said the bottom of the neck heel
> was the best place for it, and I'm very happy with the location; the
> guitar balances very well on the strap.
Just out of curiosity, when you say `bottom of the neck heel', do you
mean the back or the side nearest the high strings?

Dale Schouten
schouten@uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: yuf@sequent.com (Kyle Grieser)
Subject: Guitar playing posture/muscle tenseness
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems Inc.
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 23:17:02 GMT

I was wondering if anyone has and ideas about something that
has bothered me recently.  I've been playing quite a bit,
and I admit that my posture while playing isn't the best sometimes :).
I've found that there is one muscle in my back that has something
to do with my left arm.  It's right below my left shoulder blade?
Anyway, this muscle has been really tense and bothers me sometimes
while playing, though usually afterward.  Any ideas on how to
either strengthen this muscle or change my playing position to
alleviate the amount that I use it????  Anyone else experienced this?

-yuf
From: svrobins@bra.isnet.inmos.co.uk
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Strap buttons
Date: 2 Sep 92 10:12:09 GMT
Organization: Inmos Limited

After many years of not owning an acoustic guitar and playing only my 
Telecaster I recently bought a Seagull S6. I'm very happy with the S6,
but one thing bothers me: no strap button on the neck end of the body!.
This means I have to attach the strap by looping a shoestring-like cord
behind the nut underneath the strings on the headstock.

I don't like this at all. Surely it can't be a good idea to hang the 
instrument by its neck?. I'd much prefer to have a strap button at each
end of the body, like my Telecaster has.

So, the questions are : can I simply add a strap button?, if so do screw
into the body cavity above the neck/body joint (do I need to strengthen this
in any way?), or into the heel of the neck joint.  Will this adversely affect 
the instrument ?.

Perhaps this a common arrangment for fixing a strap on acoustics, and I
should leave it alone.

Any ideas ?

Thanks

Paul Robins

===================== gave up the .sigs years ago ========================
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: kew@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (steve.w.askew)
Subject: Re: Slide Guitar
Summary: Standard Tuning for Slide
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 15:09:44 GMT


	I find that if a song is in Gmaj,Amaj,Emaj or Dmaj, I can play slide 
	in standard tuning. Depending on position it allows the E and B strings
	to be used, or the D,G,B strings to be used. Im not a very good slide
	player, but I can get by enough to cop a style. Ive also played with
	beer bottles, double shot glasses, 6oz bar glasses, ciggy lighters.
	Oh, I used a slide also. It really doesnt matter what you play with,
	however people in the crowd seem to think its something special if
	use some belt buckle or something. As long as you know were it touches
	the strings its about the same with a slide or a berr bottle.


	Steve
	Doin That Blues ThAng!
From: basinski@biosci.arizona.edu (Mark Basinski)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: Why so few people have perfect pitch
Date: 27 Aug 92 19:16:42 GMT
Followup-To: alt.guitar
Organization: Univ. of Arizona

> >From what I understand about this, it is generally accepted that anyone
> >can attain perfect pitch with proper training...
> 
> The general thought in the music realm is that you can't attain it.

   I don't know what "music realm" you are talking about, but in studies
in music education, it is commonly recognized that people can learn and
focus primarily on visual, aural, and/or tactile stimulus. Most people
tend to have a natural orientation to one of these, and so someone who's
natural tendency is to be "visual" might be a great reader but has trouble
memorizing (until they start trying to memorize the visual image of the
page, perhaps), while someone who is primarily "tactile" might have great
physical chops but have trouble reading or hearing harmonies, etc. People
who "have perfect pitch" are generally in the group that is primarily
"aural", and while some people just "have" perfect pitch, the ability to
"learn" or acquire perfect pitch depends greatly on aural focus, and so
for this reason some people have a much easier time learning to remember
pitch, and others just never can do it. 
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mark Basinski      Internet: basinski@biosci.arizona.edu
Xref: sparky alt.guitar:7505 alt.guitar.tab:1903
From: sbb1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Shay B. Berthelson)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar,alt.guitar.tab
Subject: What is the 12 bar blues rule?
Date: 27 Aug 92 01:20:39 GMT
Organization: Mississippi State University

What is the rule that when speaking of blues people mention the 
standard twelve bar.  Please help.  Also any one have any good sounding 
easy to learn riffs, not neccessarily blues.


Thanks
Shay B.

--
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** Shay B. Berthelson ******   Don't call me WHITE ***************************
** sbb1@Ra.MsState.EDU *****   I am Danish American **************************
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From: glenn@moeng2.morgan.edu (D. Glenn Arthur Jr.)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: Martin guitars
Date: 25 Aug 1992 12:34:36 -0500
Organization: The Space-Time Fabrication Institute, Rockville, MD.
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

In article <YSh-9a#@engin.umich.edu> neufeld@math.lsa.umich.edu writes:
>
>
>Just make sure they're serious acoustic guitars.  I'm not interested 
>in things like Yamaha, Fender, or Ovation.

:-)  I've heard all sorts of good things about Martins.  The only
people I've heard put down Martin guitars are luthiers themselves,
who fancy themselves sort of competitors to Martin.  But I have yet 
to find a Martin in a music store that I like half as much as my 
Yamaha.  I've only played one Martin I did like, and that wasn't for 
sale.

This spring I was shopping for a 12-string.  I kept finding Yamahas
that felt right and sounded sweet.  Not like the $1200 Alvarez a
friend bought a few years ago, but better than anything I could 
afford.  I found other guitars that came close, but I didn't like
the Martins I tried.  Or the Ovations.  Of about eight brands, There
were only one or two that really felt and sounded as nice - to me - 
as the Yamahas I tried.

I don't want to put down Martin -- after all, everyone _else_ seems
to like them, so they're obviously doing something right -- and I'm
not saying that you should like Yamahas just because I do, but I'd
say that when it comes to steel stringed acoustic guitars, Yamaha
should not be dismissed out of hand.  If you've got a thousand bucks 
or so to spend, by all means get the best guitar you can.  If you're 
looking to spend under five hundred, try everything from that price 
on down, because you never know when you'll be surprised by something 
that costs half what you planned to spend.

By the way, over the weekend I was shopping for a mandolin, but I
missed and got twelve strings instead of eight.  You guessed it, a
Yamaha.  Used.  At half the price I was planning to pay for a new 
one.  Of course I still need a mandolin...




-- 
D. Glenn Arthur Jr., The Human Vibrator, glenn@bessel.umd.edu
"Being a _man_ means knowing that one has a choice not to act like a 'man'."

How much interest is there in a TV/TS newsgroup?  How many would post there?
You can send me mail anonymously at wi.2743@wizvax.methuen.ma.us (was wi.79)

Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: loon@underdog.ee.wits.ac.za (LOON M J)
Subject: classical guitar - anyone?
Organization: Wits Electrical Engineering (Undergrads).
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 12:13:24 GMT


I'm looking for a bit of idle email chat with a classical guitar player. It 
seems there's not many of us sophisticated types on this newsgroup. 

Regards and sympathy,  
--
Marc Loon <loon@underdog.ee.wits.ac.za>
Student No: 8807871/X (just thought you'd want to know)
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg

Conversation: a voice competition between two people
in which the one taking a breath is called the listener.
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: serge@dgbt.doc.ca (Serge Ah Hee)
Subject: Re: Strap buttons
Organization: The Communications Research Centre
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 13:25:57 GMT

In article <1992Sep2.101209.13@bra.isnet.inmos.co.uk> svrobins@bra.isnet.inmos.co.uk writes:
>After many years of not owning an acoustic guitar and playing only my 
>Telecaster I recently bought a Seagull S6. I'm very happy with the S6,
>but one thing bothers me: no strap button on the neck end of the body!.
>This means I have to attach the strap by looping a shoestring-like cord
>behind the nut underneath the strings on the headstock.
>
>I don't like this at all. Surely it can't be a good idea to hang the 
>instrument by its neck?. I'd much prefer to have a strap button at each
>end of the body, like my Telecaster has.
>
>So, the questions are : can I simply add a strap button?, if so do screw
>into the body cavity above the neck/body joint (do I need to strengthen this
>in any way?), or into the heel of the neck joint.  Will this adversely affect 
>the instrument ?.
>
>Perhaps this a common arrangment for fixing a strap on acoustics, and I
>should leave it alone.
>
>Any ideas ?
>
>Thanks
>
>Paul Robins
>
>===================== gave up the .sigs years ago ========================

Leave it alone :)

-- 
Serge Ah-Hee                  "Most troubles come from the fact that people 
serge@dgbt.doc.ca		take for granted of what they have, and 
				only care for what they want."
My opinions are mine only.
From: tms@cs.umd.edu (Tom Swiss (not Swift, not Suiss, Swiss!))
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: The Unreplaceable Acoustic
Date: 1 Sep 92 05:29:11 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: The Reality Liberation Front (pixels to the people!)

OPA@psuvm.psu.edu (Behrend AArea) writes:
>I am the proud owner of an Ibanez acoustic, Sure you are all saying big deal.
>Well you see it may not be a Martin or an Ovation but it was my Grandpa's. My
>Grandma gave it to me after my grandfather passed away. It is around ten years
>old but looks like it was purchased yesterday.  The day I got it.....the case
>was old and dusty, the clamps old and squeaky, but when I opened it the guitar
>shined so bright I had to shield my eyes.  I'll never forget how I felt when I
>saw that the Kapo was still on it and the pick still stuck in the strings like
>he just got done playing.  My Grandfather might not be around any more but his
>music will always be alive in me and his guitar.  Anyone else out there with
>interesting stories of their guitars?

     My Gibson acoustic was given to me by my uncle, a few years ago
when I took lessons for a while. It's pretty old - I think it was made
in '66 - and a bit beat-up, but still has a good sound. If I remember
the story right, my uncle won the money to buy the case from my father
in a poker game.

     When I was a kid, he'd often bring a guitar to family gatherings
and play for us - mainly for my brother and me. He hasn't done that
in a while now - we don't get together as often, and my brother and
I are grown up now. But those times were very special to me. Here
was a guy who could _make music happen_. He helped me see that music
can be something to _do_ rather than something to listen to.

     I took lessons for about two years, but gave it up, partly out
of the diminishment of interest that affects kids when things take
a while to learn, and also because of a little bout with carpal tunnel.
I started to pick it up again back in December. My goal is to be able to
play a few songs for the family at Christmas; my cousin has a little boy,
and I'd like to do for him what my uncle did for me.

===============================================================================
Tom Swiss/tms@flubber.cs.umd.edu| "Born to die" | Keep your laws off my brain!
     "What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?" - Nick Lowe 
          This is a .signature antibody. Vaccinate your .sig!
     "...getting [cruise missiles] more accurate so that we can have 
      precise precision." -- Vice President Dan Quayle referring to 
      his legislative work dealing with cruise missles
From: kevin@sherman.pas.rochester.edu (kevin mcfadden)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Rik Emmett Concert dates??????
Date: 2 Sep 92 18:59:31 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Rochester


	Hi there all!  About two weekends ago, Rik Emmett (former guitarist of Triumph), 
opened up for Skynard in Buffalo.  I was wondering if anyone knows any dates and 
locales for his concerts.


Thanks a lot!

Kevin
kevin@sherman.pas.rochester.edu
From: mike.mcaulay@spacebbs.com (Mike Mcaulay)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: dokken
Date: 27 Aug 92 22:57:00 GMT
Reply-To: mike.mcaulay@spacebbs.com (Mike Mcaulay)
Organization: SPACE BBS - Menlo Park, CA - 10 Lines + 4gB - 415-323-4193

easteee@wkuvx1.bitnet writes:

EA>In article <HARPER.92Aug25113017#godot.think.com>, harper@godot.think.com (J
EA>arper) writes:> I was wondering if anyone knows the tab to the solo in Dokke
EA>> "Tooth and Nail" (I tried alt guitar tab but to no avail).

EA>Have you got around to learning "Mr. Scary" yet?  It's pretty
EA>rewarding..   I've figured out most of the rhythm sections, but the
EA>solo spots are particularly complex and tricky--few are easy to hear
EA>right off the bat.  Do you know of any tab books that have this song
EA>in them?  I've been looking forever.  The only think I can come up
EA>with are those books that tell you what notes the rhythm guitar is
EA>playing (and they don't bother to be precise, either).

It was transcribed in Guitar For The Practicing Musician a few years ago
(just after the album came out, I think).  Actually, they may have
transcribed the live version...  anyway, check a current issue for their
back issues advertisement.

M.
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 . SLMR 2.1 . Quack!!!
                  
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