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From: basinski@biosci.arizona.edu (Mark Basinski)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: Humidifier basics
Date: 15 Dec 92 21:36:51 GMT
Followup-To: alt.guitar,rec.music.makers.guitar
Organization: Univ. of Arizona

In article <1992Dec14.160859.1@acad.drake.edu>, seh003@acad.drake.edu
wrote:
> 
> I've heard and read some stuff about humidifying guitars.  Can someone go over
> the basics?  I have a Carvin DC127 electric that I keep in its case in my dorm
> room in Iowa.  It's rather dry during the winter, but we have a humidifier
> going in our room.  Do I need to put a humidifier in the case?  I don't want
> my beloved axe to be hurt, please help.  Thanks!
> 
> Stephen
> 
   Well, first off, I don't think there is any danger for electric guitars,
with the possible exception of the fingerboard, depending upon what it's
made of. A rosewood or ebony fingerboard might shrink a little bit, which
in turn might possibly cause the frets to pop up. You can check this by 
running your finger along the edge of the fingerboard to feel if the
frets feel like they are sticking out more than usual - on many guitars the
ends of the frets should be flush with the edge of the fingerboard, and
any shrinkage will be noticed by being able to feel the fret ends
protruding.

  Low humidity is a danger for acoustic guitars and perhaps some semi-solid
electrics or electric acoustics (though often the wood for
electric-acoustic
and more inexpensive acoustic gutiars has been kiln-dried, and is therefore
pretty stable).
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Mark Basinski      Internet: basinski@biosci.arizona.edu
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: npstewar@eos.ncsu.edu (NATHAN PHILLIP STEWART)
Subject: Classic Tube Amp Transformers
Originator: npstewar@c00723-239rd.eos.ncsu.edu
Reply-To: npstewar@eos.ncsu.edu (NATHAN PHILLIP STEWART)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 00:48:10 GMT


Sorry Folks, this looks to be tougher than I thought.  I called up a local
repairman who has a good head on his shoulders and good ears attached to it.
I didn't tell him I was trying to build an amp, because any descent tech who
doesn't know much about you will rightfully try to discourage you from doing it.
I'm starting to think any good friend will do the same.

I asked about the Gibson Hawk transformers someone asked me about, and he said
good luck.  There apparantly is no 'source' for those, you'll have to hunt them
down.  When I asked him about Power and Output transformers for a deluxe, he
told me if both were bad, don't buy the amp, it's not worth fixing for price
alone.

This kind of leaves only three reasons to even try this, the best ones anyway.
1) If you are just interested and don't care what this will cost. You just want
to have the experience of building an amp.

2) You're absolutely sure of what you need, and will die if you can't get
an xxxx model amp, which there happen to be only two of them ever made, and
One belongs to David Gilmore, and the other belongs to Seymour Duncan.

3) You know what you're doing, and you think, If I just had a preamp like this,
and just this much power, but with this characteristics, and no one has ever
made this amp exactly.  If this is the case, you are probably one of four or
five people with names like Fischer, Rivera, Smith, etc.  If any of you are
reading this Christmas is coming real soon, and I'd like two medium-low gain
amps, one with a tight Fendery response, and the other with a real warm, sweet
and loose feel.  (I was kind of thinking of 4 6V6's for the first, and 4 EL-84's
for the second, with both having a half power switch and running in class A.)
But with such an animal, you're probably talking about custom wound transformers
anyway.

If anyone is trying to fix old priceless Fenders though, you are in luck. (But
costly luck)  Caeser Diaz (Sp?) a famous amp guru (As far as amp guru's get 
famous) can supply original parts for vintage Fenders.  I don't have the address
with me, but I can get it.  It is in the 1990 Guitar Player's Amp Special Issue.
I don't remember the date, but I think it's november, with the USSR Guitar
report (I guess that means it can't be 91)

npstewar@eos.ncsu.edu
Nathan Stewart
Ps. I still haven't given up completely.  More after Christmas break.
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Date: Friday, 11 Dec 1992 16:36:39 PST
From: <WAUGH@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: SleepWalker Movie slide song ?
Distribution: usa

In article <ROUSSEAF.92Dec11181654@saguenay.IRO.UMontreal.CA>,
rousseaf@saguenay.IRO.UMontreal.CA (Francois Rousseau) says:
>
>I've heard in a movie named SleepWalker, near the end, a
>great pedal steel (I think) song. It was very slow and passionate. The
>scene where it is heard actually shows one of the main actor putting
>a 45' rpm on an old stereo (before eating a young lady...).
>
>I've heard this ballad before, it's an oldie, may be a classic. It's
>instrumental. What is the title ?

Sleepwalk by Santo and Johnny

Brian
Xref: sparky alt.guitar:10972 rec.music.makers.guitar:1003
From: tespy@sw.stratus.com (Tony Espy)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar,rec.music.makers.guitar
Subject: Tubeworks Amps
Date: 18 Dec 92 22:11:42 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: orion.ts.stratus.com


  Anybody out there have any experience with amplifiers from 
  Tubeworks ( makers of the Real Tube, Blue Tube, etc...)?
  They sell a combo unit called the Mosvalve 2112 that includes
  the following in one cab:
	
		modified Real Tube II pre-amp ( 2 12AX7s ), clean
                channel is basically a blue-tube circuit, and 
                hot-rodded Real-tube circuit for the lead.  Also
                allows stacking of the two channels for ultra-gain.
                Includes a spring reverb and stereo effects loop
                ( w/adjustable levels and wet/dry mix ).

		100 Watt Mosvalve Amp

		1 12" custom spkr ( Celestion cone & voice coil w/American
                made frame & magnet ).

         ~$600 ( or less )

         They also sell a 2-12" version for a little over $800 w/a closed
         12" on the bottom, and a semi-open back 12" on top.

	
   I have a few friends who own the Real Tube pedals and love the sound.
   Just wondering if anyone out there has any other comments...

						.
					/tony . . .
						.


		"Jazz isn't dead, it just smells funny." - FZ
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: jhalvers@plains (Jon Halverson)
Subject: Re: Alternate tunings .... any ideas???
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 20:06:18 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

Oh, here's one I like. D-G-D-G-G-D.

jh
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: META <META@UNB.CA>
Subject: RE: SleepWalker Movie slide song ?
Organization: The University of New Brunswick
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 02:48:08 GMT

In article <ROUSSEAF.92Dec11181654@saguenay.IRO.UMontreal.CA> rousseaf@saguenay.IRO.UMontreal.CA (Francois Rousseau) writes:
>I've heard in a movie named SleepWalker, near the end, a
>great pedal steel (I think) song. It was very slow and passionate. The
>scene where it is heard actually shows one of the main actor putting
>a 45' rpm on an old stereo (before eating a young lady...).
>
>I've heard this ballad before, it's an oldie, may be a classic. It's
>instrumental. What is the title ?
>.
>.
Don't know the movie, but I assume it's "Sleepwalk" by Santo and Johnny.
This song has been done, redone, and it still has amazing mileage,
whether done with slide or creative tremolo work.  From the golden era
of guitar instrumentals.....

Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: jhalvers@plains (Jon Halverson)
Subject: Re: Alternate tunings .... any ideas???
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 20:04:33 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

In Orval's example of open-E tuning he gives E-H-E-G#-B-E.
                                               ^

  Where is the H on *my* guitar? Mabey I'm not looking hadr enough. :-).


Flustered in Fargo,

jh

Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: olavt@ulrik.uio.no (Olav Torvund)
Subject: Re: Martin and Company guitars
Followup-To: alt.guitar
Organization: University of Oslo, Norway
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 08:57:41 GMT

In article <john.t.rock.3-181292010338@lafmac04.lafortune.lab.nd.edu> john.t.rock.3@nd.edu (ROCK) writes:

 
   Can anyone post or email a response to the following questions:

   1) What are Martin and Company guitars so great (so damn expensive)?  I
   have a cheap one guitar and it works for me just fine.
 
A good guitar, such as a Martin, will have more carefully choosen
material. It will have a solid (usually spruce) top, carefully tuned
bracing, generally made from a very fine selection of wood, high
quality mechanics, fine wood in neck and fretboard, etc. And it will
be hand-made. A cheaper guitar will often be made from som kind of
plywood (stronger and cheaper, but it does not play that well.)

A better guitar sounds better and fells better. But if your cheap
guitar works for you, stick to it. Buy a new one when you grow out of
your present guitar. (Finding a really good guitar is almost like
falling in love: There are a lot of good guitars around, but then you
meet the right one, and you just got to have it.)

Olav Torvund
University of Oslo
Norway
Olavt@jus.uio.no

Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: rthoff@pieman.compserv.utas.edu.au (Rude -THE- Dude)
Subject: Re: Help with repair of my guitar!
Organization: University of Tasmania at Launceston
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 11:45:54 GMT

In article <14991.2b252983@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu>, antonr@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu writes:
>
>My guitar was in the basement for long time.
>Actually it wasn't even mine yet.
>I got it as a present.  So, know the main body
>is deformed(the side were the strings are.)  
>I went to the guitar store and they told me 
>that it would cost $60. to fix.  Do any of you know
> what I should do or have any suggestions???
> 
> 
>Thank's in advance.
By what do you mean deformed?

I trust you mean that the top is warped?

Well, if they quoted you $60 then I dare say that it is a good price,
after all, if that is the case, then to do it properly, the top would have
to come off, and then the ribs would have to be either replaced or just re-
glued... Then the guitar top may either need replacing or steaming into 
a standard flat shape...

So there is a lot of work in it to do it properly...

I hope this helped...

Ps. don't spend too much, if you think the guitar isn't worth it...
What sort of guitar is it? Is it a steel string? What make is it?

Write to my account,
rthoff@esk.compserv.utas.edu.au

Later,

Rudolph...............
 

-- 
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Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: tom@cpac.washington.edu (Tom)
Subject: Re: Band Question
Organization: Center for Process Analytical Chemistry, UW
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 01:38:32 GMT

In article <1goilcINN6j6@golem.wcc.govt.nz> watson_mj@med.wcc.govt.nz writes:

   Ok, heres the situation. I'm playing in a band, which is still getting
   its shit together, 

I know this is terrible, but I'm having a really good laugh after reading this.
--
Tom
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: pquince@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov (Peter Quince)
Subject: Re: Alternate tunings .... any ideas???
Organization: Image Analysis Systems Group, JPL
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 02:01:43 GMT

I wrote:

>oh, yeah, H is B-flat. pq

actually, maybe its B, which makes more sense anyway.  I know you
can play B A C H, but I can't remember if H is B flat or B.

more bandwidth ad trivium asinorum, i know, i know

--
From: faulkner@acsu.buffalo.edu (Shane P Faulkner)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: Flanger pedal help
Date: 16 Dec 92 23:09:41 GMT
Organization: UB

In article <1gnvnbINNc45@hpscit.sc.hp.com> brett@sr.hp.com (Brett K. Carver) writes:
>[ Article crossposted from rec.music.makers.guitar ]
>[ Author was Brett K. Carver ]
>[ Posted on 16 Dec 1992 19:22:18 GMT ]
>
>
>I was given a used Boss BF-2 Flanger pedal.  It has four controls on it:
>
>	Manual
>	Depth
>	Rate
>	Res
>
>Could someone with a manual please tell me what each one does.  I've got a 
>general idea from playing around with it, but I'd like to know what the manual
>actually says.
>
>Also, what I really want is a chorus effect.  I know that chorus and flange
>are similar.  Can someone suggest settings for the BF-2 that would get it as
>close to a 'normal' chorus effect as possible?
>
>Thanks.
>
>							Brett Carver
>							(707) 577-4344
>							brett@sr.hp.com

Try to find a used Boss CE-2 or CE-3 chorus pedal.  I've seen them used for
as little as $30.  They are both GREAT sounding chorus boxes.

//////////////////  Rush - Marillion - Kim Mitchell  ////////////////////
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/ V127L2QZ@UBVMS.BITNET     |  Ambition for illusion                    /
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Newsgroups: alt.guitar,rec.music.makers.guitar
From: Peter.Weekes@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Subject: 1961 Fender Mustang valuation REQ
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 22:39:49 GMT

I have been offered a 1961 (so the owner says) Fender Mustang 6 string, can
anyone give me an idea of the market price of one of these in reasonable
condition ? It has recently had the frets replaced. 

I know it's not a tele or strat, but do folk still collect and value these
models ?

Thanks for any advice. 


Peter 

-- 
Peter Weekes    Box 7163             
     \       Wellington South       
     /         New Zealand         Peter.Weekes@bbs.actrix.gen.nz      
   /
From: css1rs@gondor.mcs.surrey.ac.uk (Russell Smithers)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Holiday
Date: 11 Dec 92 18:49:36 GMT
Organization: University of Surrey, Guildford, England
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

I haven't forgotten about the FAQ, I shall do that, but im going on holiday
so I shall start it when I get back. This meens that I won't get to read
this group until the 23rd, so mail me direct on css1rs@mcs.surrey.ac.uk
if you want to chat about the faq.
From: rg@kunikpok.UUCP (R.G. Keen)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: Travel Guitar
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 20:58:55 CST
Organization: Kunikpok Kennels and Komputers (Pet Project)

johnw@ods.com (John Williamson) writes:

> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions on where to find an electric guitar
> small enough for traveling with (i.e. fits in a suitcase) ?
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.

The Hondo Lazer is ideal. It's a copy of an original made by Erelwine in 
Austin. Headless, tunes at bridge and is a full Fender scale. Johnny 
Winter played a Lazer. Only hitch -- I tried for 8 months to find one., 
no luck. Otherwise, There is the 
Chiquita, which is a short scale instrument.
From: argent@IASTATE.EDU (The Great Grendel-Khan)
Newsgroups: alt.gothic
Subject: Re: AcrossThisGreyLand
Date: 20 Dec 92 18:44:00 GMT
Reply-To: argent@IASTATE.EDU (The Great Grendel-Khan)
Organization: Iowa State University

In article <BzGwsG.HH@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, ogre@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Lestat)
writes:

	[personal plug for Across This Grey Land #3 deleted]

> Where did you get your copy? I can't seem to find any of the Projekt releases
> anywhere. I know I could I always mail-order it, but I don't like to wait.

Local rcord store does it almost every time when you live in a college town.

	Maybe I haven't read far enough yet, but I was wondering if anyone has heard
"Girls Under Glass"?  I'm starting to feel like I'm the only person that listens
to them.
	I also bought the recent "Love Spirals Down."  It's not as good as ATGN (even
though they do the first 2 songs on that comp.).  It's still worth getting
though.  Just not a dark as I like.
Newsgroups: alt.gothic
From: kenyon@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Subject: Gargoyles
Reply-To: kenyon@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 23:54:23 GMT

I don't recall the exact address offhand.  I seem to remember its around 250
or so.  I'll try to find it and post it for you later.  It's on the left as 
you walk away from Copley. I'll look it up though.
From: AS.GMH@forsythe.stanford.edu (Gina)
Newsgroups: alt.gothic
Subject: Re: Peter Murphy is a feeb
Date: 18 Dec 1992 15:54:15 -0800
Organization: Stanford University
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: morrow.stanford.edu

>        Man!  I picked up some Bauhaus albums today because I've been reading
>so much about them in this newsgroup.  What tripe!  I can't believe that
>people would spend their time listening to the kind of trash that is on
>"The Sky's Gone Out".  I've heard better lyrical talent from wiener dogs
>being fed into a garbage compactor.  Sheesh...
>
>--
>The Wailer at the Gates of Dawn              | banshee@cats.UCSC.EDU       |
>Just who ARE you calling a FROOFROO Head?    |                             |
>DoD#0667  "Just a friend of the beast."      | banshee@ucscb.UCSC.EDU      |
>2,3,5,7,13,17,19,31,61,89,107,127,521,607....| banshee@ucscb.BITNET        |


Hey, if you don't like Bauhaus, what are you doing reading
alt.gothic.  In case you didn't know, Bauhaus pretty much created
the goth persona.

-Gina
Newsgroups: alt.gothic
From: mlc9g@Virginia.EDU ("Matt Condon")
Subject: Re: Phrump
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 16:52:41 GMT

lawson@gibbs.oit.unc.edu  writes:
> 
> Im looking for some really depressing music.  Something that will make me
> want to curl up in a dark room and reflect on the abject misery I call
> life....
> 
> (Gee, that sounded pretty bad...Im not suicidal, really)
> 
> Previous favorites include _Within the Realm of a Dying Sun_ and for some
> reason "Elegia" off of New Order's _Low Life_.....
> 
> Suggestions??
> 
> Thanks all.
> 
> AJ
> 

Hm....  Well, Joy Division's "Closer" has always done that to
me, but from the sound of it, you would probably already know
about that... :-)
From: P.J.Jeffcock@bradford.ac.uk (Phil Jeffcock)
Newsgroups: alt.gothic
Subject: Rozz's Projects
Date: 16 Dec 92 10:29:45 GMT
Organization: University of Bradford, UK
Originator: phil@christian_death
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Does anyone know if the two most recently announced releases by Rozz have
appeared yet, i.e.

Shadow Project: Deaths for the Dying
Rozz: Every King a Bastard's Son

-- 
Phil Jeffcock (phil@bradford.ac.uk)
Computer Centre, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK. +44.274.383317.
Newsgroups: alt.gothic
From: mlc9g@Virginia.EDU ("Matt Condon")
Subject: Re: Peter Murphy is a feeb
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 23:00:16 GMT

banshee@cats.ucsc.edu  writes:
> 
> 	Man!  I picked up some Bauhaus albums today because I've been reading
> so much about them in this newsgroup.  What tripe!  I can't believe that
                                              ^^^^^
                                              fish? :-)
> people would spend their time listening to the kind of trash that is on
> "The Sky's Gone Out".  I've heard better lyrical talent from wiener dogs
> being fed into a garbage compactor.  Sheesh...
> 
> -- 
> The Wailer at the Gates of Dawn              | banshee@cats.UCSC.EDU       |
> Just who ARE you calling a FROOFROO Head?    |                             |
       ^^^
       YOU!
> DoD#0667  "Just a friend of the beast."      | banshee@ucscb.UCSC.EDU      |
> 2,3,5,7,13,17,19,31,61,89,107,127,521,607....| banshee@ucscb.BITNET        |

Hmmm....  Well, I'm a big Bauhaus fan and like all of it
(including TSGO), but I will say that you probably picked up
their weakest album if you bought TSGO...

If you want a better perspective of Bauhaus, pick up the
1979-1983 set (lets not start another flame war about
compilations, they ARE one of the best ways of introducing
people to new bands!).  If you want a better listen to Peter
Murphy, pick up ANY of his solo albums (though my personal
favorites are Should the World Fail to Fall Apart and Love
Hysteria).
From: wilsonandrew@bvc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.gothic
Subject: WHAT'S THIS ALL ABOUT? (RE)
Date: 19 Dec 92 05:05:05 GMT
Organization: Buena Vista College, Storm Lake, IA


	I Think people seem to have a much different concept of what it 
means to be a goth from me. I think people nowadays "go goth" just as sort 
of a cool, image thing. Being a goth doesn't mean wearing all black, or 
wearing plastic vampire fangs, or wearing lots of dark eye-shadow. 
 I think gothic is a way oif thinking.
Goths (as I see it) recognize life as being a dark, mysterious, romantic 
thing. We listen to music that appeals to this way of thinking, and act, 
dress, talk, whatever, accordingly. When I speak of romanticism, I'm not 
talking about huggy kissy crap, I'm talking about being aware of your 
surroundings, and applying your concept of life to it. A dark, brooding 
apartment facade appeals to my sense of gothicism as much as any graveyard, 
or cathedral. (I'm not trying to be snobbish here, I don't mean to sound 
that way at all, but as far as I'm concerned, I wish poeple would decide 
that "being goth" is uncool, and the whole thing would go out of fashion, 
so people would just leave me the hell alone. after all, what good does 
"being different" do you if you're just like everybody else?
-andy
From: wilsonandrew@bvc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.gothic
Subject: re:phrump
Date: 18 Dec 92 22:52:58 CST
Organization: Buena Vista College, Storm Lake, IA

Really dpressing music? Try Slowdive. I don't think they're gothic at all, 
but they sure are depressing. My friends and I have come pretty close to 
killing ourselves while listening to these guys, that's how depressing they 
are. basically, a good deal.
If you're into abject misery and depression, try listening to really 
obnoxious polka. 
Warning! If you listen to too much polka, you WILL kill yourself. 
(or whoever happens to be so cruel as to play this crap at an audible 
level, or be so stupid as to shell out the cash to buy it)
no offense, T.M.B.G fans
From: chris@castlab.uucp (Christian)
Newsgroups: alt.gothic
Subject: Re: Phrump
Date: 20 Dec 92 06:12:09 GMT
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering

lawson@gibbs.oit.unc.edu  writes:
>> 
>> Im looking for some really depressing music.  Something that will make me
>> want to curl up in a dark room and reflect on the abject misery I call
>> life....
>> 

I highly recommend The Cure _Pornography_, which is so depressing that the band
won't perform it durring their concerts... 

Just to throw in something else: If you want to be blown out of your chair and
visit Hell in person, take a listen to Diamanda Galas's _Plague Mass_. 

-Chris
Newsgroups: alt.gothic