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THE UNIQUE GUITAR BLOG: Electric Travel Guitars
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Tuesday, October 5, 2010. Today we will look at electric travel guitars. There are a lot of acoustic and acoustic/electric travel instruments, but for now we will mainly look at electric travel guitars. The first electric travel guitar I ever played was the Chiquita. Luthier Mark Erlewine and Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top fame designed this guitar in the late 1970’s. Despite its small size, it was a joy to play. Hondo stopped distribution of the Chiquita in 1985. I have often seen Johnny Winter photographed wi...
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THE UNIQUE GUITAR BLOG: The Gibson SG - A Most Unique Guitar
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013. The Gibson SG - A Most Unique Guitar. When I was 13 years old, I would arrive for my guitar lesson about an hour early at Dodds Music. That way I could check out all the new guitars. I can recall when the store had this beautiful guitar that I had ever seen. It was a Gibson SG Custom. In my opinion, the SG shape has to be one of the most original guitar designs. It was shaped like no other guitar at the tim. E Gibson gave it the designation SG which stood for solid guitar.
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THE UNIQUE GUITAR BLOG: May 2015
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Saturday, May 30, 2015. Gibson L-Series Guitars and The Nick Lucas Special Guitar. In 1926 Gibson introduced the L-0 acoustic flat top guitar. The top was amber stained spruce. The back and sides were made of birch that had been stained in a brown finish. The Gibson L-0 was a small guitar measuring only 13 ½” wide across the lower bout. The top and back of the body were bound. Guitars in the L series. Changes occurred in 1928 to this model. The top was now made of mahogany as were the back and sides....
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THE UNIQUE GUITAR BLOG: September 2014
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Friday, September 26, 2014. The Guitars of Stevie Ray Vaughan. Vaughan received numerous accolades as a player and was featured in many magazine articles, especially those having to do with the guitar. His young life ended in a twist of fate that harkens back to Buddy Hollies story,. The pilot guided the helicopter over a golf course at low altitude. He somehow crashed into a 300 foot high ski slope. Stevie Ray Vaughan grew up in Dallas Texas. After hiring drummer Chris Layton and bass player Tommy Shann...
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THE UNIQUE GUITAR BLOG: October 2014
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Sunday, October 26, 2014. The Gibson Musical Instrument Corporation owes a debt of thanks to several great guitarists; Peter Green, Eric Clapton and Michael Bloomfield come to mind. It is my opinion that these these fellows brought back popularity to the Les Paul guitar, in an era where most guitarists were playing a Fender Stratocaster, Telecaster, or a Gibson ES-335. Among his early supporters were B. B. King, Muddy Waters, Bob Dylan and Buddy Guy. Bloomfield used to say, 'It's a natural...Michael B...
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THE UNIQUE GUITAR BLOG: Danelectro Guitars and Amplifiers
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Wednesday, May 4, 2011. Danelectro Guitars and Amplifiers. Was an immigrant to the. As a child, his parents fled from. To escape the persecution of Jews during the czarist Russian era. Worked as a civilian designer for the US Army and devised a way to equip the radio receiver/transmitter in military vehicles with a system that made them unaffected by engine noise. After the war, he set up shop in. Under the name Danelectro. Had placed a ¾” aluminum rod in the neck to prevent warpage. He st...The lipstick...
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THE UNIQUE GUITAR BLOG: April 2015
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Friday, April 24, 2015. The Gibson Citation and Gibson Kalamazoo Award Guitar. In 1969 Gibson introduced their top of the line model and called it The Citation. It was also their most expensive new model and remains so to this day. The Citation was designed by then Gibson president Stanley Rendell. Was made to order. Orders were taken in 1969, but the buyer might not get the guitar for up to 2 years. There were only 8 Citations made and shipped between the years 1969 to 1971. Gibson" was inlaid on the he...
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THE UNIQUE GUITAR BLOG: Prince's Guitars
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Thursday, September 1, 2011. Quite a few years ago, in the Cincinnati, Ohio area, there was a department store called Swallens. This company specialized mainly in furniture, appliances, and electronics. In the late 1970’s Swallens started offering a few musical instruments, mainly Gretsch guitars, for sale. This may have been because Cincinnati was home to the Baldwin Piano Company. Which at the time owned the Gretsch Company. I will also mention that Duke Kramer. Duke Kramer of Gretsch. This guitar was ...
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THE UNIQUE GUITAR BLOG: March 2015
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015. Your Real First Guitar - April Fools Day! It’s April the first and I usually put together something silly, like making a Hello Kitty guitar out of a 1957 Stratocaster. But this year I am sort of tardy. Actually I’ve been compiling a lot of real stories about real unique guitars, when I discovered it’s almost April Fools Day. And I haven’t written a doggone thing. 9835; Who’s the leader of the club, that’s made for you and me? 9834; ♫. The Mario Maccaferri Guitar, was modeled afte...
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robbsend.com - The Guyatone Story
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Here's another story about a great guitar company. Written by Nate DeMont of DeMont guitars and Guyatone. One of the earliest guitar manufacturers in Japan, Guyatone began production in 1933. According to Mr. Hiroyuki Noguchi, editor of Japan's Guitar Magazine, Matsuki Seisakujo was founded by a cabinet maker's apprentice Mr. Mitsuo Matsuki and friend Mr. Atsuo Kaneko, who later became a famous Hawaiian and Spanish guitarist, as well as help with the formation of the great Teisco in 1946. As seen in The ...
