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47 stevep48 Offline Send Email May 2, 2000
12:34 am
Joel,<br><br>Thanks for the reply. I'm still waiting for that Selmer Maccaferri book but my luthier friend Doug who makes Maccaferri style guitars located a ...
48 stevep48 Offline Send Email May 2, 2000
12:44 am
When I was showing my little collection of tenor guitars recently at ther Guitar Fest in Brisbane, one keen young guy came up wanting to buy a jazz tenor ...
49 stevep48 Offline Send Email May 2, 2000
1:43 am
I managed to cull this little bit of information about Tiny Grimes from the Internet which confirms the four string guitar connection:<br><br>b. Lloyd Grimes, ...
50 curlym_99 Offline Send Email May 2, 2000
2:34 am
Steve, Tiny grimes was an excellent tenor guitarist, one of the best. He played in guitar tuning, mostly electric. There's some excellent recordings of him...
51 stevep48 Offline Send Email May 2, 2000
6:50 am
Joel,<br><br>Thanks for the information. After I posted the message, I did notice that there were quite a few re-issues of his work on CD including the kilted ...
52 cosmic_uke Offline Send Email May 3, 2000
11:22 pm
Hey group - Check out the June issue of Acoustic Guitar Magazine. In the "Jump Street" section they cover jazz guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel and his use of a...
53 mistermetzoo Offline Send Email May 6, 2000
12:09 am
Hey Phil! Thanks for the tip! I bought the issue today and now I want to buy Kurt Rosenwinkel's CD where some cuts feature a four string ...
54 cosmic_uke Offline Send Email May 6, 2000
3:26 am
Hey Group - Check out a new group out of Austin called Shorty Long. <a href=http://www.shortylong.com target=new>http://www.shortylong.com</a><br><br>The core...
55 stevep48 Offline Send Email May 8, 2000
7:55 am
Cosmic Uke,<br><br>Big thanks for the tip from me as well. I looked up the site and downloaded the MP3s. They are fabulous - I just love that style of music....
56 tedg_98053 Offline Send Email May 10, 2000
4:25 pm
Hi All,<br><br>I'm new to the group and am excited to be apart of it.<br><br>My name is Ted and I have spent the last two years researching the life and guitar...
57 tedg_98053 Offline Send Email May 10, 2000
4:26 pm
Sorry, it wouldn't let me post the entire message because it was too long....<br><br>To do this he needed a different method of string and came up with the...
58 stevep48 Offline Send Email May 10, 2000
11:39 pm
Ted,<br><br>This is just to thank you for taking the trouble to contact me privately about the EFS and to place such a large posting which was in effect a ...
59 curlym_99 Offline Send Email May 11, 2000
2:55 am
Ted, Thanks for the info. Is there any EF stuff on LP or CD. I'm intrigued by your thoughts on EF's tuning. My impression from reading the Selmer book was that...
60 bob_devellis Offline Send Email May 11, 2000
2:52 pm
Although I've never heard of Eddie Freeman, I think this thread is quite interesting. For those of you who are playing around with different string gauges, I...
61 bob_devellis Offline Send Email May 11, 2000
3:00 pm
Follow-up:<br><br>Actually, there are a couple of sites with string calculators in my bookmarks and I inadvertently pulled the one I use less. I usually use...
62 tedg_98053 Offline Send Email May 11, 2000
4:02 pm
Hi Joel,<br><br>Thanks for your messege. The problem with Eddie's Melody Maker articles (which was the source of the information in the Selmer book) is that he...
63 tedg_98053 Offline Send Email May 11, 2000
4:13 pm
Hi Again!<br><br>I have Eddie's entire discography and it will be listed on the web site. The problem, of course, is that he is very difficult to hear! All of...
64 curlym_99 Offline Send Email May 11, 2000
6:16 pm
No, I'm not going to solve this one today, BUT just for yuks I tried restringing the D and A strings on my trusty old Stella with a .036 and a .024 (which is...
65 tedg_98053 Offline Send Email May 11, 2000
7:05 pm
You're the man! <br><br>Were you using wound guitar strings for the bottom two and then the wound banjo .036 and .024 for the D and A? If so than that's what I...
66 tedg_98053 Offline Send Email May 11, 2000
11:51 pm
Hi!<br><br>Has anyone every come across some high end Gibson archtop tenors? Like the L7's used by Condon or even the D'Angelico's? I know that Mandolin ...
67 stevep48 Offline Send Email May 11, 2000
11:52 pm
Ted,<br><br>Following on from this posting. I know you have already indicated that the G string should be a regular wound guitar A string (.036) and the D...
68 stevep48 Offline Send Email May 12, 2000
12:26 am
As we have been talking Maccaferri tenor guitars so much, I have now finally added the photo of my Doug Foster Maccaferri style tenor guitar which was made in...
69 tedg_98053 Offline Send Email May 12, 2000
12:26 am
You're not being thick at all! In fact, you caught my blunder. The guages, from low to high should be as follows:<br>C - .46 (or higher) guitar string, usually...
70 stevep48 Offline Send Email May 12, 2000
12:31 am
Ted,<br><br>Many thanks for the clarification. It makes much more sense to me now. Am I correct in assuming this would apply to both normal tenor length neck ...
71 stevep48 Offline Send Email May 12, 2000
2:17 am
I have just been sent a JPEG taken of my tenor guitar display at the Brisbane International Guitar Festival (BIGFest) held two weeks ago, by the organiser so I...
72 curlym_99 Offline Send Email May 12, 2000
3:52 am
Ted, I just want to clarify that didn't use your tuning. The gauges I tried are:<br><br>C- .036<br>G- .024<br>D- .036 (I would probably use about a .032 ...
73 tedg_98053 Offline Send Email May 12, 2000
3:36 pm
Now I see what you're saying - my mistake. You're playing with a re-entry tuning and you're following the same path Freeman did. In the Melody Maker articles, ...
74 tedg_98053 Offline Send Email May 12, 2000
3:41 pm
Hi Steve,<br><br>Thanks for posting the photo. What a neat looking guitar!<br><br>As for the longer scale. I think that you could do it if you were able to ...
75 mistermetzoo Offline Send Email May 13, 2000
3:02 am
Steve, Thanks for posting the pic of you and your wife and Mom at Bigfest. Your collection is truly amazing. Earnest Instruments was the first link I set up ...
76 stevep48 Offline Send Email May 13, 2000
7:57 am
Ted,<br><br>Can you please explain the meaning of the term 're-entry tuning' - this is the second time I have seen reference to it in the Maccaferri...
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