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From: plumbojt@cray.com (John Plumbo)
Subject: Wanted:  Replacements tunage
Organization: Cray Research, Inc, Mendota Heights, MN
Distribution: usa
Date: 8 Oct 92 10:37:51 CDT



I am looking for the chords to the song "The Ledge" by the Replacements.
Anybody...?

PS - B+ = B augmented, B- = B diminished

Aloha...
From: eliot@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Eliot Miranda;W211)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: John McLaughin
Date: 12 Oct 92 17:27:51 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London

In <1992Oct9.202635.23126@u.washington.edu> venk@carson.u.washington.edu (Venkatesh Murthy) writes:

>I used to play the veena (or vina
>as it is spelt sometimes), and one of the nice features of this instrument
>is that there are three strings below the standard 4 strings, that are
>tuned to the root, the fifth and the root one octave higher.  

>McLaughlin's playing with
>Shakti, to me, is the closest I've heard the guitar come to sounding
>like a veena - and he can play it about 3 times faster than one can
>with the veena!  

This is great!  McLaughlin was studying the veena in the early seventies 
(I think at Nroth Western University) but decided he was really a guitarist.
He then got Abraham Wechter to build him his Shakti guitar!
--
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From: balon@cup.hp.com (Tom Balon)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: REQ: Info on Kitty Hawk
Date: 12 Oct 92 22:46:27 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Cupertino, CA


	
	Like the post sez.... I'm looking for any information on 
	Kitty Hawk Amps. I know they are manufactured in West Germany,
	and I'm familiar with the basic models etc. What I'd like
	to know is:

	Are they still in business ?
	Who's is their U.S. distributor ?
	General Comments about the amps ?

	I've worked on a few of these amps, recently a K1, 100 watt head.
	They sound great and are very well constructed. 

	Regards,
	Tom	T.A.S. Tube Amp Service
		Santa Clara, Ca. 95051
		(408) 243-7745
From: ADCBB@VM.CC.LATECH.EDU (C. Brian Batey)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: Peavey T40 bass (Collector's item?)
Date: 15 Oct 92 19:44:46 GMT
Organization: LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY

In article <spray.719171286@convex.convex.com>
spray@convex.com (Rob Spray) writes:
 
>
>In <29372@life.ai.mit.edu> jlew@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Jeremy Lew) writes:
>
>>I've recently acquired a Peavey T40 bass.  I've been told that this
>>particular model is a collector's item.  Does anyone out there know
>>whether this is accurate, and if so, how much the bass is approximately
>>worth?
>
>I can't think why a T40 would be collectible.  Even the
>early T60s (with the little switches) are common as dirt.
>
>Now, Casey Orr told me he's supposedly getting the only
>Ibanez Iceman bass ever made.  Now that's collectible!
>
>--Rob   spray@convex.com
>
Can you describe the Iceman bass??  I have recently gotten into older Ibanez
basses (due to buying a 1980 Musician).
 
lateron
 
brian
adcbb@vm.cc.latech.edu
From: bbs.cement@tsoft.sf-bay.org (Christopher Clement)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Bass 4 Sale
Date: 12 Oct 92 22:50:11 GMT
Organization: The TSoft BBS and Public Access Unix, +1 415 969 8238

Honner Fretless for Sale. Custom neck, PJ Style Pick-ups,Baddass Bridge. 
Great for that Jaco tone. Bay area only.

Christopher

--
Christopher Clement (bbs.cement@tsoft.sf-bay.org)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: braunste@fjord.ATMOS.ColoState.Edu (lance the braunstein)
Subject: effect rack
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 19:59:26 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523

i built an effect rack for various pedals i've accumulated over the years  
and it really works out except that i had to use 4 seperate 9v  
transformers.  does anyone know if i can run one single transformer for 4  
different effects?  my idea is to splice wires off a single (transformer)  
line into each seperate effect.

steam

pms thanks to everyone who answered my question about suspended and  
augmented chords.
From: ramst11+@pitt.edu (Richard A Meyer)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Guitar pedals for sale
Date: 15 Oct 92 19:00:11 GMT
Distribution: alt.guitar
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

I've got a Cry Baby Wah Wah and a DOD stereo chorus that I'd like to sell off.
I'm asking $25 for 1 or $40 for both. Plus shipping and handling. @$5.

Later,

Rick
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: timothy.folkins@rose.com (timothy folkins)
Subject: FLA Guitar Shops
Organization: Rose Media Inc, Toronto, Ontario.
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 01:15:33 GMT
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Date Entered: 10-09-92 20:12
Thanks to everyone who responded to my Tampa/St. Pete's guitar shop
hunt! I really appreciate your help.

Obviously, I will be tracking down Throughbreds in Tampa for a
serious look - see ! :->

regards,
tef

timothy.folkins@rose.com (Timothy Folkins)
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Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: Mucking around with Nuts..
From: haley@husc10.harvard.edu (Elizabeth Haley)
Date: 13 Oct 92 06:51:04 GMT

Michael.Bremford@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Mike Bremford) writes:


>I have an el-cheapo strat which I was checking over last night, having just got
>the August 87 Guitar Player magazine ('Strat Mania') and have found that, on the
>whole, my guitar ain't as crap as I though. However, the main glitch is the nut.

>  Basically its too deep. instead of the grooves being half the depth of the
>string as they are supposed to be, on the top strings espiecally they are far too
>deep. I can't really afford a new nut (I cant *believe* how expensive parts are),
>so I was thinking of filing it down. Its a plastic nut, but as the grooves are so
>big it would take a lot of filing. Maybe I should block it up instead...

>Any bright ideas???

>	Cheers... Mike


AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
LET ME SCREAM AT YOU FROM THE VOICE OF EXPERIENCE!!!!! DON'T!!!!
Seriously, unless you want an amazing amount of hassle, or are a
trained guitar tech/luthier, If you can't afford to replace it, don't
try to fix it yourself!
I am in need of replacing my nut because of my own insatiable need to
mess with things... I thought "Gee, I put this guitar together! I put
the neck on the body, I drilled holes for and aligned the bridge, I
shimed things, I replaced the electronics, surely I can work on the
nut!"
WRONG!  Now I have a nut full of super glue from having to build it
back up, and it's never been quite right again...
First of all, sanding the top of the nut down the make the height
correct is not the thing to do, since that would *RADICALLY* change
the action, introducing one hell of a lot of fret buzz.
Another thing to consider is why are they so deep? Do they strings
take a bend after the nut to get to the tuning machines? If so the
grooves need to be deeper so they won't slip out while playing...
Do yourself a favor: Save your pennies and take it to a Reputable
guitar tech, who'll warranty his/her work. 
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: gutzmann@acri.fr (Kurt Gutzmann)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: Can strings age on the shelf?
Date: 8 Oct 92 09:50:44 GMT
Reply-To: gutzmann@acri.fr
Organization: Advanced Computer Research Institute

In article 2911@umr.edu, lin@franklin.ee.umr.edu (Austin Lin) writes:
>A about a month ago, I purchased 3 sets of medium gauge Martin Bronze
>acoustic strings from AMS to replace the ones that came on my guitar.  My
>old ones hadn't broken in the 3 months that I've used them, but I just wanted
>to get the grubby things off.  A couple of weeks after replacing them (what
>a difference in sound BTW...), I popped the D string (yeah, one of the fat
>ones...) much to my surprise.  No problem, I thought to myself, I still have
>2 new sets to use.  So I took them all down and put on yet another set.  While
>restringing it, I somehow broke the, you guessed it, D string at the tuning
>peg.  Ok... I *STILL* have one more set, so I took the D string from that one
>and this time had a friend of mine who has been playing for a looong time put
>them on for me.  That was Friday.  Yesterday, my high E string snapped on me,
>so I had to replace it with one of the 5 strings I had left over from my
>previous screwup.  Now I've only got 4 strings left out of 3 complete sets,
>and it's only been about a month, actually less.  What I was wondering was
>is it possible that I purchased some really old strings... not used, just old
>from sitting on the shelf at AMS too long?  I haven't the foggiest idea whether
>or not steel strings can go bad...  Probably some of you folks are thinking
>that I've got a burr or something on my bridge (that's where all the breaks
>are occuring, with the exception of my wonderful restringing blunder).  I'm
>inclined to discount that theory, because the original strings on my guitar
>never broke, and they were also medium gauge Martin Bronze's.  Thanks in
>advance...
>
>Austin
>lin@ee.umr.edu

It is possible for metal strings to corrode in their packages, particularly
if they stored in an environment high in airborne pollutants, such as a
city or industrial area.  Some makers package their strings in hermetic packages
to reduce this aging problem (e.g. Savarez).  
  Are you using any tools when you restring?  A pair of needle nose pliers perhaps?
Often you can nick a string with tools like this, and obtain surprisingly
snappy results (pops).  Try using only your fingers for the job, if so.

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From: abubakar@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Zulhisham B Abubakar)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: ANYBODY HAS CHORDS FOR "HOLIDAY" BY SCORPIONS!!!
Date: 16 Oct 92 16:35:29 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

Dude, 
  
  I have been playing Holiday with the chords I translated by ear.  I
don't know if that is the perfect, but it sure sounds pretty damn close. 
I can post it if you want.  I have the lead to that too.  Of course,
they really are easy riffs. (Nevertheless, it sounds so nice!)

As for the ftp thing,  you might want to subscribe to the alt.guitar.tab
newsgroup.  There are articles in there that mention some ftp in nevada
that you can access to get tabs.  I don't, unfortunately, have the numbers
of the articles at hand, so you'll have to go through the arduous task of
seraching for it.  You'll find it in no time, though.  Good luck.


ZUL.
abubakar@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: plyall@lookout.it.uswc.uswest.com (Pete Lyall)
Subject: Re: 60 cycle single pickup hum
Organization: U S WEST Information Technologies
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 14:58:41 GMT

In article <1bfjjeINN2p0@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> dkmiller@unixg.ubc.ca (Derek K. Miller) writes:
>nukes most of the noise when he's not playing, and when he is it's masked
>by the guitar tone. The Strat is a Squier with cheapo single-coils and no
>shielding. It has a nice "snarky" tone.


Argghh!

Plead with - no - BEG your guitarist to upgrade his pickups. Honestly,
it makes a WORLD of difference in both the tone and noise departments.
One of my strats is a 1984 Squier, and it was noisy and thin sounding. I 
had the pickups replaced with Seymour Duncan Hot Rails (bridge and neck), and
a single coil stack (also Seymour) in the middle position. While it
was 'in the garage', I also had the trem system replaced with a
Washburn Wonderbar. Now it's one of my favorite guitars, stays in
tune, and has marvelous crunch.

Admittedly, all these _did_ alter the tone (for the better, IMHO), and
made it darker and punchier. I have another strat (Strat Plus) which is
all original except for a SD Hot Rail at the bridge. The Lace Sensors
are MUCH quieter than the original Fender single coils, and have
managed to capture close to all of the original tone. Between the two,
I can dial in pretty much any sound I want (NOTE: the HR's are setup
with coil taps so I _can_ get single coil sound when I need it).

In any case, almost _anything_ is better than the stock Squier
electronics package...

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: WAUGH@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: StratoFAQ - First Posting (all about Stratocasters)
Date: 7 Oct 92 16:15:09 GMT
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

Thanks for all the hard work, guys.  A lot of us "Strat-cats" can look at our
instrumentsthrough new eyes.

Brian Waugh                       |    "What's for dinner?"
WAUGH@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU    |        Lazlo Toth

     owner:  1989 American Standard, Arctic white with a maple fingerboard
From: 11439106@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (SHAWN FOO)
Subject: Re: Kramer Pacer Custom I wiring
Organization: Faculty of Engineering, Monash University 
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 23:59:59 GMT

In article <92280.142108DAHUGH@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK> DAHUGH@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK writes:
>From: DAHUGH@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK
>Subject: Kramer Pacer Custom I wiring
>Date: 6 Oct 92 13:21:08 GMT
>Would anyone out there have the wiring for the above guitar?I had someone
>fit EMG's but I've now changed to Seymour Duncan's,and the other person seems t
>o have changed the wiring around.The guitar has a switch to turn eveything else
>off and turn the Humbucker on.There is also another switch to select the HB
>as HB,SC or off, alongside the 2xSC on/off switches.The HB I've fitted is a
>JB and what's happening is when that the HB is fine when HB only is selected.
>But when not andthe coil tap is selected the SC sound is very thin and weak,
>and what should be HB is somewhere between the two.HELP!
>Thanks,Dave H.

	Sounds like the Humbucker is out of phase with the single coils.... 
try reversing the connections of the Humbucker.....
	that sound right to everyone else?? hope I'm right and this 
helps.....

	S.P. Foo
From: dkmiller@unixg.ubc.ca (Derek K. Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: 60 cycle single pickup hum
Date: 13 Oct 1992 22:46:06 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: unixg.ubc.ca

In article <13217@fennig> fennig@fennig (Kurt Fennig) writes:
>I talked to a guitarist/salesman/axeman at the local music shop over
>the weekend, and he said I could shield the cavity of my guitar with
>copper foil (which they sell for $11 with 1 sticky side) and then 
>solder the copper edges together.  He said this would reduce above
>60% of the hum.  
>The strat of mine has a 5-way switch but I prefer the kick-butt tone
>of the single coil pickups in 1-3-5 position.  I'm aware of the Lace
>pickups but I think if I was to modify the strat, I would lose that
>'SNARKY' tone you refer to...  Besides, the strat has vintage reissue
>pickups with the stagered pole pieces...
>I've got a Washburn 29 fret guitar, so I play most rock with it, but
>I sure get that 60 cycle hum if I add any amount of distortion to the
>Fender.
>Does anyone know of anyone who has tried copper foiling the guitar
>cavity to reduce the hum?
>

A lot of guitars (including the American Standard Strat, I think) come
with shielded control and pickup cavities, and they do reduce hum to some
degree. Then again, considering how many thousands of guitarists have
used Strats for 40 years (nearly), there is some argument for just living
with the hum. The guitarist in my band (who uses my Strat and sometimes
his Vox Buckingham amp or my Fender Princeton Reverb) has it routed through
a Korg A5 stomp-box multi-effects unit, which has a noise gate. That
nukes most of the noise when he's not playing, and when he is it's masked
by the guitar tone. The Strat is a Squier with cheapo single-coils and no
shielding. It has a nice "snarky" tone.

So you can try the foil (it can't hurt) or you can just go with the
guitar as is. Modifying the pickups will probably modify the sound,
so you probably shouldn't risk the time or money.

      :=:=> Derek K. Miller                 dkmiller@unixg.ubc.ca
      Researcher, Alma Mater Society        thegrodd@tz.ucs.sfu.ca
      University of British Columbia, Canada

PS. I'm a drummer.


Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: till@acid-rain.lucid.com (Don Tillman)
Subject: Re: humbucker theory (was Ibanez hum)
Reply-To: till@lucid.com
Organization: Lucid, Inc.
Date: 15 Oct 92 09:51:36


   Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 01:06:11 GMT
   From: bill@verdix.com (William Spencer)
   Organization: Verdix Corp.

   till@acid-rain.lucid.com (Don Tillman) writes:

   >Bartolini pickups come in all sorts of variations built with the humbucker
   >form factor: single coil, split humbucker, dummy coil, vertical hum
   >canceller, tapped coils, and triple coil.  Oh, and regular humbucker.  Plus
   >coil tap options.  And no goofy names like "humbucker from hell" or "ultra
   >vomit death".

   That's nice, but where do you get them? I considered them as a possibility
   and then saw an ad with about 10 different ones and the legend "Bass Pickups"
   and took it to mean they don't even make guitar pickups. Oh well.

They still make lots of guitar pickups.  Call'm up and ask for details:

Bartolini
P.O. Box 934
Livermore, CA  94550
415 443-1037

   >   Now, if someone could only explain to me how Lace pickups reject
   >   hum.
   >"Radiant Field Barriers", man.  (Facetious reference to Fender's lunatic
   >marketing.)  Lace pickups don't reject hum in the sense that they're
   >noiseless or cancel hum or anything; they're just much less sensitive to
   >hum because they have these metal (steel?) side and bottom dealies
   >shielding out a large portion of the noise.

   If I understand correctly, they really are humbucking. Not the same 
   configuration as regular humbuckers, but still humbucking. The "Field
   Barriers" act as polepieces, channelling magnetism around to the back of the 
   coil equal to the front pole. Like humbuckers, the result would be
   cancellation except that the poles are also oppositely magnetised.

Unless I'm misunderstanding you, this last sentance isn't correct.  The
voltage induced in a coil of wire due to external hum doesn't care about
the polarity or even the existance of a magnet.

Humbucking pickups work by having two coils, of opposite polarity, so as to
cancelling the external hum.  Lace pickups have only one coil, so they are
can't be humbuckers.  (Also note that their advertising doesn't use the
phrase "humbucking" or "hum cancelling" or anything like that.  Not that
Fender's advertising has ever been accused of being accurate...)

  -- Don

Newsgroups: alt.guitar,rec.music.makers
From: david@euclid.JPL.NASA.GOV (David Bernath)
Subject: Korg A-5
Reply-To: dbernath@jplpds.jpl.nasa.gov
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA/Caltech
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 21:30:34 GMT


For Sale:

                 Korg A-5 digital guitar effects unit

                 Has distortion/overdrive, compressor,
                 EQ, 2 chorus, 2 flanges, slap-back,
                 half a dozen reverbs, digital delay,
                 mono input, stereo output, AC adaptor,
                 25 preset patches, 5 user-storable patches

                 $195  (I'll pay for shipping in the U.S.)


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From: dam@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (David Morning)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: sad1024 chip availability?
Date: 8 Oct 92 10:17:32 GMT
Organization: Glasgow University Computing Science Dept.

bradstoc@ravel.udel.edu (Craig A Bradstock) writes:

>In article <Bvqp6J.GqD.2@cs.cmu.edu> mills+@cs.cmu.edu (Michael Mills) writes:
>>
>>a lot of cheap 70s time-based effects used the reticon sad1024 chip.
>>does anyone know if it's still available anywhere, or if anyone made
>>a workable substitute?

>Radio Shack still had them a couple of years ago, I don't know if they still 
>do.  It was an analog delay chip - sort of primitive, but fun to experiment 
>with.  It cost me something like $20 though and was very easy to ruin w/ static
>electricity, etc. 

It was a BBD device (Bucket Brigade Device) National Panasonics make a tweaked
version of the old Reticon chip. The 1024 was a 1024 stage BBD. The National
Panasonics devices are:-

MN3004:- 512 stages ; Clock range 10 - 100kHz: Delay range 2.56 - 25.6mSec.
         Supply voltage -15volts.

MN3011:- 3328 stages: Clock range 10-100kHz: Delay range 16.64 - 166.4mSec
         Multiple taps (6): Supplu voltage -15v

MN3101:- Biphase clock generator for the above chips.

Cost(UK) MN3004 4.75 pounds
         MN3011 24.01 pounds
         MN3101 1.01 pounds

Convert using 1 pound = $1 for the likely US price.

Available in UK from RS Components (No! NOT Radio Shack)

Dave

>Craig.

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From: hsu22@wharton.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: OVATION BALLADEER, PEDALS FOR SALE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: 15 Oct 92 21:48:51 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

Looking for some $$ for a rack, so I'm selling this stuff:

Ibanez Graphic Eq...............$50
DOD Wah/Volume/Voltage pedal....$70
Boss Delay/Pitch Shifter........$100

FOR PHILADELPHIA-AREA RESIDENTS ONLY:  I have an Ovation 12-string Balladeer.
I've been toying with the idea of selling it.  The only problem is that it
has 2 hair-line cracks in the finish (someone dropped it)
--but the problem is in the FINISH ONLY.
I even had a well-known luthier (if anyone remembers T.W. Doyle pickups, Mr.
Doyle is the guy) seal and buttress on the inside of the guitar to make sure
that there would be no POSSIBILITY of wood damage.  Other than this cosmetic
problem, the guitar is a beaut.  It has nifty inlays, cool-pearlish tuners,
decorative binding around the top and soundhole, volume and 3-band graphic eq,
battery check light, deep bowl.  If anyone would be willing to pay, say $475 
for it (NEGOTIABLE within reason), I'd like to get the money because I
just don't play much acoustic.  I can't emphasize enough that I'd be happy to
work with you on the price.  Again, this is for Philly people only, since I
would want you to look at it first.  Oh, and I got it new with hard case for
$750 about 3 years ago.  A great deal for a low-budget acoustic player--the
thing sounds pretty intense through an amp.  So if you're not picky about
cosmetics, PLEASE contact me.

You can call at night til 2am -- (215)387-8194, ask for Calvin.