Re: Is the electric guitar dying, taking Gibson and others with i
From Mandoplumb - " ..in my opinion if you install a electronic pickup an instrument becomes electric. ..". If the instrument can be played perfectly audibly 'without' the elecs.,then it's an electricly amplified 'acoustic' instrument. IMO - a truly elec.instrument is one that without the elecs. becomes inaudible - although i do understand Mp's point of view.
Re. Asian made 'anything' - those guys did produce some horrendous stuff in the begining. Why wouldn't they,they were making copies of Western goods that they'd never made before !. However,drawing on over 3,000 years of skill in producing exquisite works of art & craftsmanship,they were soon developing & improving the goods that they made & at a lower cost. After that they were marketing their own brands of goods & taking on sub-contacts from Western brands - fiendishly clever these Orientals !!.
I remember reading an article re.the setting up of the Chinese 'Gold Star' banjo production line,overseen by Greg Rich (ex.Gibson) & Scott Zimmerman (Desert Rose Banjos). Initially,things were coming down the assembly line a bit 'not quite right'. Greg Rich said that he only needed to tell the guys once about something, & it never came down wrong again.
The 'electric Osbornes' were ghastly !!. However,at that time,several bands were trying to get into the rock music market by playing what i could only call 'Bluegrass versions' of rock songs,trying to appeal to the non-Bluegrassers who might bite.
Jim & Jesse - ''Johnny B. Goode''
Some of the Osborne Bros. songs recorded back then were far from the Bluegrass shore.
- ''There's Always a Woman...'' & several more like that one,
Ivan
Weber F-5 'Fern'.
Lebeda F-5 "Special".
Stelling Bellflower BANJO
Tokai - 'Tele-alike'.
Ellis DeLuxe "A" style.
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