Thanks for replies, doesn't really matter that much to me if my guitar is a copy of this or that particular model. Just curious about the relationship...

So, my guitar is a clone of a LP clone? That makes some sense, since the shape is very much like LP, as is the wiring and controls. The pups are singl...

The alternate tunings I usually use, Open D, E or G, make it a whole lot easier to tell when you're in or out of (relative) tune than standard. The op...

Here's a page with discussion about different methods of tuning which may be helpful for you in getting your guitar well tuned quickly. :D

Merle Travis used thumb and two fingers, with the thumb providing an alternating bass. Actually Merle Travis played with only index and thumb, having...

What kind of music are you working on? This is related to the settings of a jam or comping a singer when you just follow a chord progression, I rea...

If you instead learned section Z, played Z, learned Y, played YZ, learned X, played XYZ, then when you went to perform it for the first few times at l...

Hope that works out well for you. I fear it'll be more of a decoration on the coffee table than my favorite slide. My Dunlop brass slide sounds bett...

Found a great and interesting article discussing the blue note here, (in the file blue-note-artikkel.pdf). I wonder if it's a coincidence that the aut...

Thanks for your answer, it cleared up the picture a little. I guess part of the problem is that the blues is a fusion of African music and Western mus...

Nice collection, HP.I was admiring the piano, too. :shock: :D It's abuot seventy years old, made in Eilenburg, Germany by Gebruder Zimmerman. Learni...