Talk:Guitar/Archive 1

message: Does anyone know whether this is a good edit?  I tried it in Google, Teoma, and Yahoo but I get no results, "...The guitar was first played by Olga Von Streiselbauckernomblemuckenstreisenburger"
:yeah, how about NOT DDerby 06:44, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Good edit

message: Anyone have any thoughts on qualifications for these lists?  I guess I agree with many of the "legends", but this is a bit of a POV call.  I'd personally lean toward getting rid of the "notables" and trying to get down to a relatively short list (10 or so?) of legends.  Then we can pick ones that are most considered "legendary", however we determine that.  Friday (talk) 20:39, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. I just moved a similar list out of guitar solo and I think it's cleaned up the page. These can be moved to a page just containing list of "notable guitarists". But if this is going on then I guess someone ought to co-ordinate it; we don't want several of these pages duplicating the same kind of material... Ornette 16:20, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Legends and notable guitar players 

message: Does anyone see a point to the "Guitar culture" section?  I don't see that the content there particularly discusses guitar culture, whatever that is. I'd personally lean toward removing it, but I'd rather have some other opinions first.  Friday (talk) 19:34, 24 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Guitar culture 

message: Graphite used for nuts?? Its far too brittle. Any evidence/refs about this before I remove statement?--Light current 01:04, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: A quick google  shows lots of graphite nuts available, so I assume they must be used.  Friday (talk) 01:07, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

text: Maybe that's why so many are available as replacement parts.. hmmm.. :) Friday (talk) 01:18, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Graphite??? You must be nuts! 

message: Sorry if I sound like I am nitpicking...
In the History section, it is mentiond that Sanskrit itself was primarily the official language of the Aryans of Central Asia, that is, Iran, and was spread along the east, as far as present Bihar by about 600 BC where it was later to be established as classical Sanskrit of India.. Checking on the Sanskrit page, shows no such information. There is some similarity in Vedic_Sanskrit, but not quite what the article says. Can anyone please verify this?
--getkashyap 05:50, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sanskrit 

message: I was going to just add the part about the four fingers and the tuning in fourths, but decided the whole thing needed cleaning up.  Hope I improved it and didn't kill anything we want.  One thing I did was to change the notation in the list of tunings.  The use of a capital, a lowercase, and a prime to denote consecutive octaves was messy and didn't add much value on a guitar scale where it's customary the tones increase and the string index decreases as you read from left-to-right.  Though it occurs to me this article should actually include a section explaining that.  Maybe someday.  216.237.179.238 22:35, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I take it back.  The notation is too common in music articles in the wikipedia.  I'm changing it back. 216.237.179.238 22:42, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tuning 

message: "This Squier Stratocaster has the features of most electric guitars: multiple single coil pickups, a tremolo bar, volume and tone knobs"
It would be worth mentioning that it also has a pickup selector.
:Every electric guitar has a pickup selector.--Jason Gastrich 00:14, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Not true, electric guitar may have only one pickup, thus simplified controls %) --GreyCat 02:23, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not familiar with a 6 string guitar that has only one pickup. Wouldn't that sound horrible? My American Fender Stratocaster has two double humbuckers. Can you provide a citation for your statement?--Jason Gastrich 04:01, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Sure, well-known examples are Gibson Les Paul Junior, Fender Seymour Duncan Signature Esquire, Fender Tom Delonge Stratocaster. --GreyCat 11:18, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  The Duncan GreyCat mentions looks like it has a pickup selector (although I can't imagine what it's selecting). Another I found was the Squire Bullet Special. --David Fell 03 January 2006
Choosing between humbuckers and single coils is a matter of personal taste. However in a strat with 3 single coils, the positions 1,3 and 5 of the pickup selector activate only one pickup, and nope they cannot sound horrible. I think Van Hallen had hacked one of his first guitars. He removed one of the pickups and left only a humbucker, so when he switched the pickup to the position with no-pickup the guitar was muted, and... well, he utilised that as a song feature ;) +MATIA  ☎ 10:17, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

text: You're right, and Tom Morello has a similar trick Triki-wiki 05:05, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Squier stratocaster image text 

message: I wrote a separate article for Guitar/synthesizer and plan to link from this article. Please check it out. In this article, I question the appropriateness of saying that one type of guitar synthesis is "the emulation of guitar played on other instruments such as the keyboard synthesiser using guitar-like sounds". To me, that's synthesis (or sampling, more likely), not guitar/synthesis. I was planning to remove this comment when I link, but thought I'd get some opinions first. --Trweiss 23:22, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Guitar/synthesizer]]