Re: OT: jazz on tele's etc.

[Toby Graves <carpet8@mac.com>]

It's also important to get a Tele sound that the strings go through  
the body.

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On Apr 1, 2010, at 1:32 AM, Andreas Willers wrote:

> It's interesting how certain elements work together on specific  
> guitar models. A Tele can be a great jazz guitar with the treble  
> rolled off, a humbucker or P90 in the neck position certainly  
> helps, but heavy strings even more so. Put some 12 or 13 flatwounds  
> on a standard Strat and off you go!
>
> I got that from a studio player friend of mine who is constantly  
> changing instrument's setups, putting nylon strings on older  
> Martin's, thin strings on a jazz box, heavy gauge stuff on a Strat  
> just to see what he comes up with. Quite a bit of setup work there  
> (also some cheaper guitars might start to go south under 13's these  
> days), but probably more rewarding that trying out your 12th  
> variant of a modded Tubescreamer clone.
>
> On the other hand my luthier once as an experiment (no extra holes  
> drilled) put a Tele bridge on my 1960 Gibson Melody Maker (the  
> single cut LP shaped variant with P90's added) - and that small  
> mahagony swampthing suddenly started to put out some serious twang,  
> amazing difference. Too much twang for me, we put the Pigtail one- 
> piece-bridge back on...
>
> Best, Andreas
>
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