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From: richard@purch.Columbia.NCR.COM ()
Subject: Re: Topics for a FAQ
Organization: NCR Corp, E&M-Columbia, Columbia, SC
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 93 17:23:56 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.120407.17463@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK> css1rs@gondor.mcs.surrey.ac.uk (Russell Smithers) writes:
>Ok, I have come up with some headings that I would like to cover :
>
>Chords
>Scales
>Technicle
>
>Any other's you would like to see? well mail me at css1rs@mcs.surrey.ac.uk

How about the following:

construction of vintage Les Pauls (woods, custom vs standard, etc)
dating schemes for Gibson and Fender at least
a list of who to call if you want an appraisal (ex. Gruhn Guitars)

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Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: guy@harlqn.co.uk (Guy Snape)
Subject: Re: Tuning Trouble
Organization: Harlequin Limited, Cambridge, England
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 09:31:28 GMT

>What's the best method for tuning? Pitch pipe? Pitch fork? How 'bout

My 2c worth... Just Say No to pitch pipes.  I've come across more than
one which has been out of tune.  You can get a half decent blues out
of them though, if you don't have a harmonica ;-).


-------------------------	            Guy Snape
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Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: mathers@sibelius.trl.OZ.AU (Steven Mathers)
Subject: speed
Reply-To: s.mathers@trl.oz.au
Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 21:47:25 GMT

Having been practising guitar for a whole month and a bit, I am
wondering how accomplished guitarists manage to whizz up
and down scales so quickly.  Its not a question of accuracy...I
just cant seem to make my fingers move that fast, even if I
dont worry about trying to hit strings.  Is this just practice, or
are there some 'tricks' involved.

Also, I cant seem to get any sustain out of my admitedly crappy cheap
guitar.  No matter how hard I hammer on the strings, it sounds weak.
Newsgroups: alt.guitar,rec.music.makers.guitar,rec.audio.pro
From: fiedler@netcom.com (Dragon (David Fiedler))
Subject: Re: Guitar for sale...Gibson LesPaul Custom
Organization: InfoPro Systems: Writers, Consultants, and Dragons
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 00:35:17 GMT

soh@gdstech.grumman.com (Scott O'Hare) writes:

>In article <1993Jan6.192144.17356@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com> cooper@kdx200.enet.dec.com () writes:
>>
>>A women buys her boyfriend a BRAND NEW LES PAUL CUSTOM for Xmas.  Not knowing 
>>what he was getting for Xmas, the IDIOT dumps her.  
>>
>This is really one of the funniest things I've read in awhile. He's an idiot
>because he didn't hang around long enough to collect the guitar, which he 
>obviously would have done if he knew he was getting it, right? 


That's what I thought initially, but now I think that it means: only a
great woman would buy her boyfriend a guitar like this as a present, so
he's stupid to have not realized how cool she was.


Too bad I just got a LP Studio....
-- 
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"The future is tekon"     Internet: fiedler@netcom.com or david@infopro.com
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Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: bsb@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Brett Baumberger)
Subject: Re: Lace Sensor Humbuckers
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 22:42:04 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard NARC Atlanta

>Has anybody played a strat with lace sensor humbucking pickups?
>I'm considering fitting one on my strat plus deluxe. I need your opinion
>Thanks in advance.

I have a humbucking position for the lace sensors in my bridge posoition
on my Strat Ultra.  I like it very much; and use it often. Hot!  The
humbucker is made of 2 Red Lettered Lace Sensors, and has a switch where
I may use 1 coil, the other coil, or both as a humbucker.

Brett
bsb@hpuerca.atl.hp.com



Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: ai456@yfn.ysu.edu (Paul S. Troutman)
Subject: Wanted: Fender Stratocaster
Organization: Youngstown State University/Youngstown Free-Net
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:15:04 GMT


I'm looking to get back into guitar playing. Any one have a cheap price on a used (maybe abused) Strat? Preferably one with a tan neck.
-- 
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: walagerw@cs.vu.nl (Lagerweij WA)
Subject: Patrick Eggle's Brian May signature model?
Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 11:23:33 GMT

Hi,

I heard somewhere that Patrick Eggle (sp?) were going to make
a Brian May signature guitar, modeled after May's famous
'Red Special'. I know for a fact that the company gave Brian
a guitar but have no info on what kind of.

The same source also said that Guild would also restart the BHM
line.`

Does anyone have any more info on this? 
Thanks,

Wouter.
-- 
Wouter Lagerweij | 'Do you think you're better every day?'
walagerw@cs.vu.nl| 'NO, I just think I'm two steps nearer to my grave!'
						- Queen
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: bud@megatek.com (Wayne Francis)
Subject: Re: Electra guitar
Reply-To: bud@megatek.com
Organization: Megatek Corporation, San Diego, California
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:03:46 GMT

In article <93008.112227OBFP@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> Peter S. Andersen <OBFP@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> writes:
> Has anyone heard of this brand of guitar? I saw one in a local
>store the other day. It is a solid body with neck through the body
>or possibly some kind of glued on arrangement. It has two
>humbuckers with controls in a Les Paul kind of configuration. Any
>clue where this beast may have originated?

   This would be a japanese made guitar.  They were imported into the US by Saint Louis
Music, the same company importing (or marketing , whichever is appropriate) Alvarez
Yairi guitars.  Later they changed the name of their electric line to Westone.
More recently they have changed the name to Alvarez for their electric line.  
The electra line started out making gibson and fender copies.  Some were of
very high quality and some were pretty cheap.
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Date: Tuesday, 12 Jan 1993 17:15:49 PST
From: <WAUGH@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: Vintage Tube Amp Owners

In article <C0roGs.2LH@cup.hp.com>, balon@cup.hp.com (Tom Balon) says:
>
>        Vintage tube amp owners:
>
>        TAS *the* Tube Amp Service in Santa Clara can repair or rebuild
>        your vacuum tube amp. If you have an old amp that's dear to you,
>        and you use it regularly, it's important to make sure it's healthy.

               <Tom's specifics deleted to save bandwidth>

>    +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
>        T.A.S.
>        Tube Amp Service              "On the trailing edge of technology."
>        3455 Homestead Rd #14
>        Santa Clara, Ca. 95051  (408) 243-7745 PST
>    +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+

            <Tom's address left to make sure you have it>

I don't usually do this but I have had such good service from Mr. Balon in the
past I feel compelled to let it be known that T.A.S. is for real.  Tom is an
industry electronics professional and guitar player who loves tube amps.  He
runs T.A.S. as a labor of love and it shows in the quality of his work.
Don't worry, there's only him.  Nobody else will work on your favorite gear.
He refurbished an old (1969) Princeton Reverb Amp of mine, installing an
adjustable bias supply in the process.  It sounded so good another friend of
mine is having TAS work on his Princeton and restore an old Guild accordion
amp (it's really cool!).

Don't hesitate if you can use the services T.A.S. provides.  You won't be
disappointed.  Tell him Brian sent you.

Brian

P.S.  Ask to see his Princeton that now uses EL34s.  It cranks!
From: kermel@goofi.greco-prog.fr (KERMEL Julien)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: gif guitar pictures
Date: 11 Jan 93 16:35:57 GMT
Organization: ENSERB (Electronic & Computer Science School) Bordeaux FRA
Originator: kermel@goofi


	Could some one give me some ftp sites where I can find some
	guitar pictures in the gif format ?

                                           Thanks.
	Julien Kermel
	kermel@goofi.greco-prog.fr
From: css1rs@gondor.mcs.surrey.ac.uk (Russell Smithers)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Topics for a FAQ
Date: 6 Jan 93 12:04:07 GMT
Organization: University of Surrey, Guildford, England
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

Ok, I have come up with some headings that I would like to cover :

Chords
Scales
Technicle

Any other's you would like to see? well mail me at css1rs@mcs.surrey.ac.uk
From: drkerns@sony7.sdrc.com (sean kerns)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: Sigma guitars...
Date: 8 Jan 93 19:35:23 GMT
Organization: SDRC

In article <1993Jan8.173311.20207@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, wag2y@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Bill Gillen) writes:
|> Does anyone out there know much about Sigma guitars?
|> I've have an old clunker DM-5 and I was wondering if
|> anyone could give me some background on it.  I picked it 
|> used and I must say that for the few bucks that I spent
|> this thing really has a nice sound.  (Especially on the   
|> low end.)  Is this one just a fluke?
|> 
|> Also I noticed a stamp inside the guitar that said it was
|> made by the Martin Co.  Is this one of those guitars made
|> from afar and given the Martin stamp?  
|> 
|> Thanks for all the help,
|> 
|> Bill
|>  
 

Yep,
That is indeed one of the oriental specials. They do play pretty nicely, though.

Snake
From: boydso@nextwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu. (The Sexecutioner)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: Metallica in mutant fingers shock !
Date: 8 Jan 1993 06:23:59 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department at Rose-Hulman
Reply-To: boydso@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: o231-14.nextwork.rose-hulman.edu

In article <1993Jan7.123055.20897@abekrd.co.uk> graeme@abekrd.co.uk  
(Graeme Griffiths) writes:
> 
> Greetings all,
> 
> 	A friend of mine gave me the TAB for Metallica's last album (you
> know, the BLACK one) which I was quite pleased about. It's a style I've
> never really learned and I was keen to pick it up.
> Anyway in one of the songs (I think its "Through the Never") has a bit
> from West Side Story (America) at the beginning (You know the bit that
> goes, da da, da, da da, da, dah dah dah.....) and in the TAB it looks a
> little impossibe to play. Anyone got any tips....
> 
> 	One of the notes (and they're all about this spread) is:
> 
> -----------------
> -----------------
> -----------------
> --------2--------
> --------9--------
> -----------------
> 
> 	My fingers ain't that long. I thought it could be a misprint but
> like I say the rest of the riff is also spaced this far apart. The TAB
> doesn't say to tap it, so do Hetfield and Newstead have fingers _that_ 
> long ?
> 	Inquiring minds etc....
> 
> 
I'm not sure which part of which song you're talking about, but a friend
of mine had the same problem with the tab to Megadeth's "Countdown to
Extinction" tab. Anyway, we finally figured it out: it was a 2-guitar
part, one guitar an octave above the other.  It looks like that's what
you've got there.

                           Stephen Boyd
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
nope, no .sig file....i dont even know how to get one!
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: wag2y@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Bill Gillen)
Subject: Sigma guitars...
Originator: wag2y@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:33:11 GMT

Does anyone out there know much about Sigma guitars?
I've have an old clunker DM-5 and I was wondering if
anyone could give me some background on it.  I picked it 
used and I must say that for the few bucks that I spent
this thing really has a nice sound.  (Especially on the   
low end.)  Is this one just a fluke?

Also I noticed a stamp inside the guitar that said it was
made by the Martin Co.  Is this one of those guitars made
from afar and given the Martin stamp?  

Thanks for all the help,

Bill
From: Jonathan Egre' <jonathan@mantis.co.uk>
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: Patrick Eggle's Brian May signature model?
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 93 12:25:05 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.

walagerw@cs.vu.nl (Lagerweij WA) writes:

> I heard somewhere that Patrick Eggle (sp?) were going to make
> a Brian May signature guitar, modeled after May's famous
> 'Red Special'. I know for a fact that the company gave Brian
> a guitar but have no info on what kind of.
> 
> The same source also said that Guild would also restart the BHM
> line.`
> 
> Does anyone have any more info on this? 

The December (?) issue of the British guitar magazine "Guitarist" had an 
interview with Brian May in which this was mentioned.  Is this your source?

In the "Guitarist" interview Brian May said that Patrick Eggle wanted to 
manufacture and market a guitar in cooperation with him (May).  It was *not*
specifically stated that this would be a replica of Brian May's home-made
"Red Special" (it wasn't denied either).

Brian May implied that Guild still had some kind of right, which might or 
might not be an exclusive right, to produce guitars bearing Brian May's name;
he wasn't sure what would actually be possible between Guild and 
Patrick Eggle.

Brian May's own guitars apparently have *very* thick necks, which might not
be to everyone's taste.
--
Jonathan Egre' = jonathan@mantis.co.uk = jonathan_e@cix.compulink.co.uk

Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: stud9j25@bcars243.UUCP (Steven Kostur)
Subject: Re: Lace Sensor Humbuckers
Reply-To: stud9j25@bcars243.UUCP (Steven Kostur)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 14:19:43 GMT

In article <C0K4E4.KoI@hpuerca.atl.hp.com>, bsb@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Brett Baumberger) writes:
>>Has anybody played a strat with lace sensor humbucking pickups?
>>I'm considering fitting one on my strat plus deluxe. I need your opinion
>>Thanks in advance.
>
>I have a humbucking position for the lace sensors in my bridge posoition
>on my Strat Ultra.  I like it very much; and use it often. Hot!  The
>humbucker is made of 2 Red Lettered Lace Sensors, and has a switch where
>I may use 1 coil, the other coil, or both as a humbucker.
>
>Brett
>bsb@hpuerca.atl.hp.com
>
>
>
Anyone has any experience with the blue-red humbucker?
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: bud@megatek.com (Wayne Francis)
Subject: Re: Sigma guitars...
Reply-To: bud@megatek.com
Organization: Megatek Corporation, San Diego, California
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:07:50 GMT

In article <1993Jan8.173311.20207@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> wag2y@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Bill Gillen) writes:
>Does anyone out there know much about Sigma guitars?
>I've have an old clunker DM-5 and I was wondering if
>anyone could give me some background on it.  I picked it 
>used and I must say that for the few bucks that I spent
>this thing really has a nice sound.  (Especially on the   
>low end.)  Is this one just a fluke?
>
>Also I noticed a stamp inside the guitar that said it was
>made by the Martin Co.  Is this one of those guitars made
>from afar and given the Martin stamp?  
>
>Thanks for all the help,
>
>Bill
> 
    Sigma acoustic guitars (you didn't say but I assume you 
have an acoustic) were designed by Martin and built by the Japanese.
They were then sent to the US where they were set up by Martin.
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: drwagner@pinkfloyd.oracle.com (David Wagner,,,)
Subject: Re: Rocktron Intellifex
Reply-To: drwagner@pinkfloyd.oracle.com
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 01:55:34 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by an unauthenticated user
              at Oracle Corporation.  The opinions expressed are those
              of the user and not necessarily those of Oracle.

In article 92Dec19214657@bailey.cpac.washington.edu, tom@cpac.washington.edu (Tom May) writes:
>In article <9235506.27045@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> jimt@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au (Jim Trivellas) writes:
>
>>The Intellifex is a high performance unit that has 8-voice chorusing, 
>>digital HUSH noise reduction, pitch shifting, various delays and reverbs, and
>>the very useful feature of delay/reverb ducking (previously available only
>>on the TC 2290 I think).
>
>Ok, what is delay/reverb ducking and why is it so very useful?
>--
>Tom


What ducking allows you to do is to attenuate the delay/reverb output
while you are playing (so that it doesn't sound "cluttered"). You can
control the amount of attenuation, the input threshhold (at what input
level will ducking kick in?), and the release threshhold (how soon after
the input signal has fallen below the input threshhold will it stop ducking?)

Dave


Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: fisel@eskimo.com (Aron Roberts)
Subject: Re: HELP: String Bend = SNAP!
Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 06:31:28 GMT

Well it would depend on where the string is breaking. If it is always
breaking at the bridge then your frets have nothing to do with it. I
have on one of my guitars sanded the bridge saddles to keep strings from
breaking. Also if you haven't had the thing set-up recently any trem
action will weaken the string(not always but often). I will also put in
my recommendation for Dean Markleys here.

Fisel@eskimo.com
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: ikeda@ohara.info.waseda.ac.jp (Satoshi Ikeda)
Subject: Re: What is MIDI?
Organization: Ohara Lab., Dept. of Info. and Comp. Sci., Waseda Univ., JAPAN
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 05:56:33 GMT

Hello. Please don't mind my poor English.

In article <ponte.726357066@aer.com> ponte@aer.com. (Rui Ponte) writes:

 >explain what MIDI stands for? I have seen it in many posts and

MIDI stands for Music Instrumental Degital Interface.
And, it decides the standard. 
For example, the transport rate of degital signals is 38400 bit / second,
you must send the binary code 90H 3cH 40H to instruments to make C sound.

You can harmonize an instrument and another one or computers that have
this interface, though they are made by different makers. 
So MIDI is used many ways, like synthesizer, drum machine,
music sequencer, MIDI guitar ,etc.
To use MIDI guitar, you can make a shynthesiser sound, record the sound, 
and edit the sound. It's great.

And also many people use this word to stand for degital music or 
computer music.

.... I can't explain MIDI well in English. So I wait another follow.
     But I hope you will know MIDI a litte, and be interested in MIDI.
     Thank you.

			Satoshi Ikeda	
	Ohara Lab., Dept. of Info. & Comp. Sci., Waseda Univ., JAPAN
		E-mail : ikeda@ohara.info.waseda.ac.jp



	



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From: hayrinen@messi.uku.fi (Jukka Hayrinen)
Subject: Action on classical guitar?
Originator: hayrinen@messi.uku.fi
Date: 11 Jan 93 10:44:44
Organization: University of Kuopio, Finland

Ok, subject says it: What are the distances measured in the 1 and 12 fret on a
properly set nylon string? I set up my electrics pretty low by trial and error,
but they have adjustable bridges. I wouldn't want to experiment by carving too
much plastic out, and having to replace them or putting shims underneath. Any
help mucho appreciated. Thanks!

-Jukka-

Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: sunthej@alleg.edu (Jake Blues)
Subject: Usenet University (was Lesson of the week).
Reply-To: sunthej@alleg.edu
Organization: Allegheny College
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 22:22:13 GMT


You should consider contacting the Usenet University about this, or at  
least notify them,  This exactly the type of thing it is trying to spawn.
From: olavt@ulrik.uio.no (Olav Torvund)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: speed
Date: 5 Jan 93 13:47:07 GMT
Organization: University of Oslo, Norway

In article <1993Jan4.214725.6665@trl.oz.au> mathers@sibelius.trl.OZ.AU (Steven Mathers) writes:

   Having been practising guitar for a whole month and a bit, I am
   wondering how accomplished guitarists manage to whizz up
   and down scales so quickly.  Its not a question of accuracy...I
   just cant seem to make my fingers move that fast, even if I
   dont worry about trying to hit strings.  Is this just practice, or
   are there some 'tricks' involved.

The main problem with speed is coordination and accuracy, and
practise, practise, practise and practise. You say you have been
practising for a whole lot and a bit, but the accomplished guitarists
you are refering to have been practising for years and years.

If you want to build up speed, practise with a slow and even tempo,
and concentrate on a nice and clean sound. Use a metronome, and
increase speed gradually, until you reach your top speed. Then slow
down to a speed you can cope with. Next time you do the same, and
after a while your top speed and your "control speed" will have
increased. It takes a lot of time and practise. And do not forget that
guitar palying is not an olympic sprint, it is about palying muisc.


   Also, I cant seem to get any sustain out of my admitedly crappy cheap
   guitar.  No matter how hard I hammer on the strings, it sounds weak.

Sustain have much to do with your guitar, but also with your playing.
If you are precise in your left hand fingering, your sustain will
improve: Keep your fingers as close as possible to the fret without
any damping. And it also have to do with your right hand playing. Your
playing should be strong and controlled, but not hard if sustain is
what you want.

Olav Torvund
Oslo, Norway
Olavt@jus.uio.no
Organization: Senior, Architecture, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Date: Tue,  5 Jan 1993 13:01:09 -0500 
From: Nicolas Alejandro Arauz <na0s+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Korg A5 (exciter ver) for Sale!

I have a Korg A5 Multi-FX processor for sale.  It's sits on the floor,
and allows 5 effects simultaneously.  It's about a month old, perfect
condition, still have the original box, manuals, etc.  It has
Compressor, 3 Band EQ, Exciter, Chorus/Flanger, Reverb/Delay.  It's
really good, and each effect has its own pedal.  I just decided it's not
convenient for me to use.  I prefer rack-type/table-top/micro effects,
and actually, I've replaced this with a Zoom 9002, which I like more.
It sits on my desk where I can play with the controls.  But if combined
foot-pedals are your thing, then the A5 is for you!  I'd prefer to sell
it directly to someone in New York City, so you can come and pick it up,
and not worry about shipping, etc.  I'm selling it for $265 (cash or
certified check/m.o.). I think it goes for about $299 (plus tax) at Sam
Ash last time I check. And even if it's a little lower now (I doubt
it!), you'll still have to pay $40 or so in taxes.  So if you're
interested, give me a call at (212) 388-9495 and ask for Alex.  I may
accept a SLIGHTLY
lower offer, and of course I'll consider shipping C.O.D. for a little
shipping and handling  ($5 or so).  Be hearing from ya!
 
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