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  1. If it is already in the public domain wouldn't that mean that it has already been created? I'm in agreement that it seems to hang instrumentalists out to dry...
  2. Maybe I don't really understand the concept, but it seems to me that if we mechanically create all possible music and put it out in the public domain doesn't that mean that that's the end of music as an art?
  3. Ibanez AF105 NT I sold it to purchase a Tele. I should have sold a different guitar. I still have the Tele and it is my got to guitar, but I miss that hollowbody guitar.
  4. It's an idea whose time has come!
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    Two rosewood Martin's (one is a laminate) and a fiber subtance Ovation.
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    I'm BI-PINUAL:lol: I don't care either way. I have both.
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    Hi all! I really don't post here usually but I couldn't resist this thread. There have been all kinds of "theories" about about wrapping the tailpiece on Stop Bar TOMs for ages now. I've been playing electric guitar since 1960 and my experience with this goes way back. In the 60's Gibson Melody Makers were very popular student guitars. They were equipped with wrap around bridges. Many players moved up to LP's with stop bar tailpieces and simply because they looked similar some of them wrapped the tailpiece because that was "how they always did it". It had nothing to do with tone or sustain or playability. It had everything to do with old habits dying hard. I know this because I did it too until I knew better. Dan Erlewine believes differently. So do I.
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    But WHY do people do that? Just to be special? There are a few pictures in Dan Erlewine's book on guitar repair that show the bridge on a Les Paul that has broken and collapsed after years of tension from the strings. When the strings come out of the tailpiece, not wrapped around they go directly over the bridge. This is ok. In order to get the best sustain a lot of guys would screw the tailpiece all the way down. If you do that and the strings are straight wrapped, the strings will make contact on the corner of the bridge and then go up and over the bridge correctly. That pressure causes bridges to crack and the break angle is like 30 degrees, I'm guessing, but it is high. If you wrapped around the tailpiece you can screw it all the way down, the strings only make contact where they are supposed to, and you get a break angle of about 5 degrees. The low break angle allows for less tension at tune and eases bending, etc.
  9. Weber mandolins offer great value. Alvarez has some nice ones also. I have only seen the Eastmans online, but they get good reviews. I'm partial to Webers.
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