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Hands vs. Machine: The Survival of the Guitar in an Electronic World
NextSound.com ^ | January 24, 2014 | Tad Malone

Posted on 01/25/2014 10:21:49 AM PST by giant sable

One of the great paradoxes of modern popular music is the endurance of the guitar.

After all, electronic music has now been generally available for a half-century – and logic would suggest that with its wide range of effects (including synthesizing the sounds of traditional instruments), its programmability and editing, and its plummeting price, that the guitar, that ultimate refinement of analog music creation, would by now have gone the way of the harpsichord.

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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Computers/Internet; History; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: electronicmusic; guitar; moog; synthesizer
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To: Zeneta

Pat Metheny’s Orchestrion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VymAn8QJNQ


21 posted on 01/25/2014 1:12:57 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe

Would love to try a Guild, but I ain’t giving up my Martin! Love that guitar. Best one I’ve ever owned.


22 posted on 01/25/2014 1:14:04 PM PST by Mama Shawna
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To: djf
He played a lot with Bowie.

And Zappa.

23 posted on 01/25/2014 1:15:25 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: giant sable
Is this with or without endangered Republican hardwoods? You know, those woods which have armed LEO raids and seizures when identical woods used by Democrat guitar makers aren't a problem!
24 posted on 01/25/2014 1:15:44 PM PST by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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To: cuban leaf

Nothin’ like strappin’ on one my strats and jammin’. The only button I care about is the one that goes to 11.:>)


25 posted on 01/25/2014 1:19:14 PM PST by rktman (Under my plan(scheme), the price of EVERYTHING will necessarily skyrocket! Period.)
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To: djf

Oh and another guy named “Fripp”.


26 posted on 01/25/2014 1:20:49 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Mama Shawna

To be fair, the ones I played were not set up for me. I like to down-tune and use open tunings and all the ones I played were not set up for that. The strings buzzed horribly and the 6th strings were so loose they slid off the fretboard just from a simple fretting (not even bending).

I don’t blame you for not wanting to give up a Martin. They are beautiful guitars.

A $2,000 used Guild D-55 (for my tastes) is equal to if not better than a $3-4,000 Martin. Ren Ferguson, previously with Gibson, is running the shop.

Don’t give up the Martin, but if you ever get the chance to try the D-55, I think you’ll be impressed.

Here’s a clip of someone playing one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kuScTu6vE0


27 posted on 01/25/2014 1:25:44 PM PST by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Prepare for survival.)
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To: ez
I have a Epiphone Valve Jr 5w that I modded with a bitmo tweaky mod kit and a bigger power output transformer, thru a 2x12.

Heaven!

28 posted on 01/25/2014 1:34:47 PM PST by Manic_Episode (F the Whigs)
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To: giant sable
As long as there is Bluegrass & Folk music there will be always Acoustic Guitars :>}
29 posted on 01/25/2014 1:49:58 PM PST by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: Manic_Episode

Sweet. I have major gas (gear acquisition syndrome.) goin pedal shopping this week. Enjoy!


30 posted on 01/25/2014 2:20:52 PM PST by ez (Muslims do not play well with others.)
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To: giant sable

Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing (Alchemy Live) - YouTube
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8Pa9x9fZBtY


31 posted on 01/25/2014 2:29:03 PM PST by Wolverine (A Concerned Citizen)
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To: Wolfie

“The guitar is indeed alive and well. The traditional guitar tube amp, though, has faced some strong digital challengers.”

You see the prices of tube amps lately? I asked the gy at the music store why are they so expensive. He said because the sound cannot be duplicated by digital equipment.


32 posted on 01/25/2014 3:42:49 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz ("The GOP fights its own base with far more vigor than it employs in fighting the Dims.")
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To: dfwgator

btt


33 posted on 01/25/2014 4:26:21 PM PST by real saxophonist
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe

Oooh....that was pretty. That guitar had an amazing sound. As a matter of fact, I DID have a Guild before I got my Martin, and I sold the Guild to BUY the Martin! However, it was a cheap guitar, and the Martin sounds WAY better than the Guild did. What can you expect from a guitar bought straight off the hook from Guitar Center? HAHAHA! It’s funny how that came about. A friend of ours that we had been jamming with off and on brought it over one night and let me play it ALL NIGHT. So, by the end of the evening, after he knew I’d fallen in love with it, he looks at me and says “Ya know, Shawna, I was thinking about selling that guitar’. WELL HELL!!! Can you say SOLD!? Still the best git-fiddle I’ve ever owned, I play it almost every day. I have pounded the absolute CRAP out of that thing, and it just gets better with age. You should see the scratches, dents and dings on it, but it always stays in tune, and just the TONE of it is SHAWEET! Just like all the old gun slingers say...you can take my guitar out of my cold, dead fingers, cause I ain’t gonna stop playing till the day I die!


34 posted on 01/25/2014 10:40:54 PM PST by Mama Shawna
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To: Mama Shawna

Glad that you found your instrumental soulmate. There’s no replacing that.


35 posted on 01/28/2014 8:38:14 PM PST by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Prepare for survival.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

I was at the NAMM Show last week. Tubes are where it’s at.

What’s old is new again.

And to think I gave away my Fender Strat and Bassman Amp when I decided I wasn’t going to be the next Clapton back in the 60’s. Sigh...

Had I kept them, I could have sold them now so I could pay for my Health Insurance.


36 posted on 01/28/2014 8:47:03 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Nobody owes you a living, so shut up and get back to work...)
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