Vintage Electric Guitar Strings?
Question: I have seen it all now. I stopped by the local music store today to buy strings for some heavy weekend jammin and I noticed Ernie Ball has a new Classic String series out. They are supposedly pure nickel wound and have a pure nickel core. EB claims on the package that this was the way ...
- Vintage guitars??
Question: I was reading a post on another newsgroup and the poster said he was buying a 20 year old vintage Gibson Les Paul. It got me to thinking about the word Vintage and how it relates to guitars or instruments in general. While the dictionary mentions age in its definition of vintage as Le ...
tagged: Vintage Electric Guitars- What makes an electric guitar sound electric?
Question: I've been playing acoutsic guitar for 14 years. Now that Ive started playing in a small band with some of my friends I'm interested in playing an electric for effect. Not rock -- more like picking, instramental kind of stuff. About 3 yeras ago a friend of mine bought a Fender 'kit' on ...
tagged: Electric Guitar- What was your first electric guitar/bass?
Question: I remember my first electric bass fondly. It was a Univox copy of a Fender Jazz whose bridge pickup made this really grating buzzing sound when I turn the tone knob up to treble. Still, it was a solid, if unexciting instrument. It was cheap -- which was a major consideration for a 14- ...
tagged: Electric Guitar Bass- Newbie looking for Electric guitar. Help!!
Question: I am wanting to purchase an electric guitar but I don't know anything about them. I have been a pianist for over a decade and want to branch out a little for fun, nothing serious. What is important to look for or to avoid? Can I use a standard reciever/stereo as an amp? Answer: The am ...
tagged: Electric Guitar And Amp- Newbie looking for Electric guitar. Help!!
Question: I am wanting to purchase an electric guitar but I don't know anything about them. I have been a pianist for over a decade and want to branch out a little for fun, nothing serious. What is important to look for or to avoid? Can I use a standard reciever/stereo as an amp? Answer: If you ...
tagged: Electric Guitar Amp- difference between an acoustic and an electric guitar amp .
Question: Can anyone explain the difference between an acoustic and electric guitar amp? Can electris guitars be used with an acoustic amp? Answer: Most acoustic amp have a hi freq tweeter. Some amps let you switch it off for use with an electric guitar (SWR); others don't (Fender). Yes, you ca ...
tagged: Electric Guitar Amps- Electric Guitar for Acoustic Player.
Question: After being an acoustic player all my life (John Denver, Gordon Lightfoot, acoustic Beatles, Dan Fogelberg, etc.), I'm considering buying myself an electric for my 40th birthday next year. The ceiling on it would be around 2K -- if you were me, knowing that a) I know little or nothing ...
tagged: Electric Guitar Amplifier- Electric Guitar Amp .
Question: There is a vacuum tube based amplifier in a recent issue of popular electronics. I was wondering how it could be modified to be used as and electric guitar amp. I really don't know much about how and electric guitar works. I guess there is a small current, that is passed through the p ...
tagged: Electric Guitar Amplifiers
