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Framus 12 string electric
I bought this truly strange guitar in the early eighties. While playing in a band called Super Suzy in the later 1970’s I often used an Ovation 12 string guitar. Since Super Suzy was a very adventurous group I frequently experimented with various tunings on the twelve string – tuning the string pairs in…
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Frameworks Classical 7
Throughout my 35 year career as a guitar player I have always loved the sound of acoustic guitars and especially nylon string classicals. The big problem they all had was not being able to amplify them in a practical way so I could play with a drummer and keep the picking hand under control.…
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Chapman Stick
Oh boy. That story with the Chapman Stick. I still own it and every few months I will pick it up and doodle a little on it. And I use it often to record specific parts on tracks I am working on. I had been interested in a Chapman Stick ever since I read about it…
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Carvin LB 76 fretless bass
In the Fall of 2007 my wife Monika Herzig and I were invited to a concert in Frascati, Italy – that’s up in the mountains, about 15km south-east of Rome. Since 2001 we had played a few concerts in Germany on our yearly vacation trips. Every time I would pack my black Carvin LB 76 bass…
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Carvin LB 76 electric bass
After moving to the US in 1988 I noticed that I got more calls for bass than guitar. After a while I decided that I needed something more professional than my brother’s old Marathon bass. After seeing Chick Corea Electric Band live in Birmingham, AL, circa 1989, John Patitucci left a deep impression on…
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Avante AV 2E baritone guitar
In early 2006 a copy of a guitar magazine landed on my kitchen table – unusual, since I had been subscribing to Guitar Player Magazine for many years but stopped reading it because most of the content didn’t interest me that much anymore. There was nothing in that sample issue able to convert me…
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Agile Renaissance X 8 String
I am not quite sure what it is with these added strings. After I aqcuired my first seven string guitar about a decade ago I have rarely played any of the six string guitars in my office. For a while I have been fuzzing around with a Schecter Hellraiser 8. It’s great for writing…
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