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Cort G200 (Strat-copy) as a backup for when I want 5-position single-coil or for when my shoulder hurts from the LP. (I'm not a young man anymore and I probably should've switched to extra-wide straps decades ago.)

Actually, I hardly break out the Matchless anymore. It's mostly headphone amps for me these days.

Hundred dollar versions of a Harmony Dreadnought and a Hohner Classical.

(So the short answer would be, "One of each: LP, Strat, Dread & Cassical.&quot

EDIT: Found a pic...

It is the only guitar I have ever had that doesn't go out of tune no matter how much I flog the shit out of it.

It has a single Seymour Duncan "Invader" pick-up slammed down just above the bridge and a lone volume knob (missing the knob, because it isn't really necessary anyway). I run it through an ME-30 effects processor that makes it sing when I want it to, but I usually have set in demolition mode.

My back up bass is a Mexican Jazz Bass that I rebuilt with a Mighty Mite neck and a Hipshot bridge.




My guitar rig (on the rare occasions I play) is a '94 40th anniversary Stratocaster through a re-issue Super Reverb with a Marshall Bluesbreaker for a little extra dirt.

I love the sound of fingers and thumb on the bass, but there are some tunes where I like the attack and dynamics of a pick. I use Clayton .63's.

Sound. Personally for picks I use Dunlop max grips .73 is the thickness right now. I know it's hell on my strings but I love the sound of the thicker picks on my Jackson or B.C. RICH. I finger pick on the acoustic

The acoustic tone isn't all that great but the B-band electronic built in pick-up is quite nice, played through my Ultrasound acoustic amp. I improved the tone and projection by putting in a bone nut and bridge and the playability by sanding down the sides and back of the neck. It has low action for a classical style guitar. I've also put together a parts guitar that looks like a telecaster. I had a custom made mahogany neck (made by US Custom Guitars) fitted for it that's very wide across and thin of profile and with a flat fretboard (I don't like the narrow, highly radiused commercial electric guitar necks of guitars you buy off the rack, especially Fenders, as I can't play fingerstyle on them). The body which has a tele shape is extremely light and resonant, made from ultra-light Asian Paulownia wood. I put very light weight tuners on it with plastic tuner keys. Everything else is light weight including the bridge and the custom-made jazz-style Charlie Christian pick-up which has an amazingly rich jazz tone. The guitar weighs a little over four pounds and is even lighter than a notoriously light Parker Fly guitar. After complaining for years of not being able to find a mass-produced guitar with a wide, slender, flat neck and a nice jazz tone I decided to put together my own frankenstein guitar. I really like it. I play fingerstyle and with a pick. I use little Fender jazz picks (mandolin picks) and attach them to my thumb with a little piece of strong double-stick tape, letting me transition easily from fingerstyle to picking (I'd use a thumb pick like Lenny Breau used but I can't get used to the rigid feel). Having the pick fixed to the thumb also frees all the fingers on the right hand to do two-handed tapping a la Van Halen (I don't really go for that style and I don't play rock but I do have a few times that I use it) as well as multi-note harmonics. I have a Fender Blues Deluxe for rare times that I want to play blues like when I was a kid with an old Gibson Flying V and Fender Strat. But for years now I've been mainly playing by myself in my living room, aspiring to play fingerstyle jazz guitar accompanying myself like on a piano, in the vein of complete and great jazz players like Joe Pass or Lenny Breau, who could make solo jazz guitar playing sound very full and sufficient. I'm by no means comparing my playing ability to those greats (nowhere near it) but those fingerstylists are my inspiration and they've influenced the type of guitars, sounds, and equipment I seek.

a blonde ES175 Gibson - all with very different sounds

Acoustics - I like Martins - my best flatpicking is a '58 D-18, but also have a great-sounding '67 D28 rosewood - great rhythm sound.

I also have a D18V which I bought in 2001 when my granddaughter was born - put it in her name so she could benefit from the Martin lifetime warranty.

Several others taking up closet space, but these are the ones that get played.

that I play through a decent Fender Princeton Twin Due (I think that's what it's called - 2 x 10" speakers).

Can't really afford more and only have the Mockingbird because I inherited it from a family friend. But holy shit, it sounds amazing.

Acoustic is a cheap Washburn. Someday.....maybe I'll have enough for a Martin. That's my ultimate guitar ambition.

The Takamine was my dad's he can't play since his stroke. The BC Rich was a Christmas gift from my dad. The Jackson was the first guitar I bought for myself. My current wants for a guitar is a skg electric, and a cherry red Gibson hollow body

finally got it back.Amazing sound

first guitar I ever touched.Damned thing is worth Lord knows how much money and I was like ten years old at the time strumming away on it.

Oh back to your original question I have a fairly new nothing special Epi Les Paul studio with Dimarzio's top and bottom and lockers matched with a peavy 5550 and various pedals

Hand carried from Valencia, Spain, in 1973.

Right now it's still mine.

I was trained as a boy in classical technique, in Mexico. I don't play too much anymore.

Check this out

Ladino is an archaic form of Castillian Spanish.

Flamenco has many influences from Northern Africa and the Middle East.

Listen to this flamenco sung in Turkish. Interestingly, that's where many of the Sephardim ended up 500 years ago, when they were expelled from Spain.

Thank you for sharing this

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