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Post by Taildragger on Jan 25, 2022 20:18:40 GMT -5
I'll start with f-hole Martins. Here are a few guys who did play them, if only briefly:
 Skip Spence with Moby Grape
 The Music Machine ("Talk, Talk")
 Johnny "Guitar" Watson
Ry Cooder with Rising Sons and Taj Mahal Band
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Post by LeftyMeister on Jan 26, 2022 9:43:30 GMT -5
Taylor had a line of solidbody electrics that didn't seem to catch on. According to their website, they're no longer in production.
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Post by Taildragger on Jan 26, 2022 18:31:21 GMT -5
Cleartly, you didn't buy one on account of they were all righties!
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Post by DrKev on Jan 27, 2022 8:23:20 GMT -5
Music Man Reflex and Armada guitars.
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Post by Riff Twang on Jan 27, 2022 10:59:06 GMT -5
Leo and George's Music Man Stingray and Sabre guitars.
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Post by Pinetree on Jan 27, 2022 16:59:31 GMT -5
Travis Bean aluminum neck guitars.
The Guitorgan.
Most of the "travel guitars".
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Post by rickyguitar on Jan 27, 2022 22:43:29 GMT -5
Whatever happened to Kramer guitars?
Edited to add:
I didn’t realize Taj Mahal was young once.
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Post by Rick Knight on Jan 28, 2022 7:13:24 GMT -5
I hadn't thought about those in quite a while. I saw a guy doing a solo show on one, and thought it was cool. |
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Post by LVF on Jan 29, 2022 20:31:19 GMT -5
Taylor had a line of solidbody electrics that didn't seem to catch on. According to their website, they're no longer in production.
I have the model in the middle ^^^. The middle model. I break it out occasionally. I always thought it sounded too acoustic for an electric. |
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Post by Taildragger on Jan 29, 2022 21:27:35 GMT -5
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Post by funkykikuchiyo on Jan 30, 2022 12:08:31 GMT -5
Taylor had a line of solidbody electrics that didn't seem to catch on. According to their website, they're no longer in production.
I have the model in the middle ^^^. The middle model. I break it out occasionally. I always thought it sounded too acoustic for an electric.
I remember when they were developing it. It was one of those "great on paper" things, because they thought they had all of these secret recipes stashed away, but their sensibilities for acoustics just didn't translate. They seemed so certain it would just blow everything else out of the water.
That is kinda how electric guitars work, though. No one imagined Slash when the Les Paul was invented, no one imagined SRV when the Strat was invented. If either of those was left to its original design trajectory, they'd be lost to time. The musicians are ultimately the ones who decide what guitars will succeed.
For a brief time Martin also had some more conventional archtops. I'm yet to see any in the wild, though. They kinda look like they were built out of the Benedetto book.
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Post by guildx700 on Jan 30, 2022 22:23:56 GMT -5
The Chiquita travel guitar:  |
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Post by Mike the marksman on Feb 11, 2022 9:27:14 GMT -5
The Parker Fly. A few people used them, and I remember Mars music having what seemed like a whole wall of them in the early 2000s. I guess they were too "out there".
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Post by RogerD on Feb 11, 2022 14:52:50 GMT -5
Re: The Chiquita travel guitar:
If memory serves I believe that the Chiquita was right around $650.00 Very pricey at the time.
This is possibly one of the reasons that it didn't catch on.
Billy Gibbons was known to be a fan of them however.
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Post by Leftee on Feb 11, 2022 15:07:31 GMT -5
Re: The Chiquita travel guitar: If memory serves I believe that the Chiquita was right around $650.00 Very pricey at the time. This is possibly one of the reasons that it didn't catch on. Billy Gibbons was known to be a fan of them however. He gave a lefty to Elliot Easton. That guitar recently sold on Reverb. I kinda wish I’d bought it. |
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Post by langford on Feb 11, 2022 20:52:51 GMT -5
The Chiquita travel guitar: Didn't Frank Zappa play one of those? I recall seeing a picture of him on stage with one back in the day. Maybe it was for show or maybe I'm not remembering correctly. Does anyone else remember seeing him with one? |
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Post by langford on Feb 11, 2022 20:54:48 GMT -5
Do the Fender Lead I and Lead II count? Those came out when I was in high school. They were good guitars, as I recall, but everyone who was a Fender fan in my school wanted a Strat.. or maybe a Tele.
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Post by guildx700 on Feb 11, 2022 21:07:57 GMT -5
The Chiquita travel guitar: Didn't Frank Zappa play one of those? I recall seeing a picture of him on stage with one back in the day. Maybe it was for show or maybe I'm not remembering correctly. Does anyone else remember seeing him with one? Marty McFly played one:   |
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Post by Jim622 on Feb 11, 2022 22:10:43 GMT -5
 The Yamaha Silent Guitar. I have one I got for $99 that I would take it apart and shove in my sea bag with clothes around it that I would take on deployments. Great guitar, it has an onboard amp with two reverbs and a head phone jack. Pretty decent sounding axe. |
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Post by dadzmad on Feb 14, 2022 17:47:11 GMT -5
Mark Erlewine is still selling these. I got this 2011 about 5 years ago and from looking at sold items online could get about twice what I paid. I can't speak for the Hondo era but the newer ones are nice and the city girl likes the case.  |
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Post by sirWheat on Feb 15, 2022 6:16:46 GMT -5
Microfrets? They weren't around for long and while they didn't go out of business due to lack of sales I think it's fair to say that they probably wouldn't have lasted long anyway. Kinda expensive and a bit too oddball for the general public I think. I have a nice example of one; pretty neat and different but with the thinnest neck I've ever played. Short scale too.
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Post by LeftyMeister on Feb 15, 2022 12:00:29 GMT -5
The Fretlight guitars didn't seem to take off but, surprisingly, they're still being sold.
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Post by LeftyMeister on Feb 15, 2022 12:02:58 GMT -5
The Yamaha Silent Guitar. I have one I got for $99 that I would take it apart and shove in my sea bag with clothes around it that I would take on deployments. Great guitar, it has an onboard amp with two reverbs and a head phone jack. Pretty decent sounding axe. That guy is really good. |
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Post by Ragpicker on Feb 16, 2022 12:14:41 GMT -5
Late 60s and early 70s Les Paul Recording and Personal series. Had the high impedence pickups and various switches depending on model. I had a 70 Recording model. Was a heavy axe and they were bigger than regular LPs.
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Post by markfromhawaii on Feb 17, 2022 1:42:51 GMT -5
The Yamaha Silent Guitar. I have one I got for $99 that I would take it apart and shove in my sea bag with clothes around it that I would take on deployments. Great guitar, it has an onboard amp with two reverbs and a head phone jack. Pretty decent sounding axe. Sweetwater has them. Hmmm. 🤔 |
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Post by Jim622 on Feb 17, 2022 7:37:08 GMT -5
The Yamaha Silent Guitar. I have one I got for $99 that I would take it apart and shove in my sea bag with clothes around it that I would take on deployments. Great guitar, it has an onboard amp with two reverbs and a head phone jack. Pretty decent sounding axe. Sweetwater has them. Hmmm. 🤔 Yeah - mine is a much older model, but it's definitely a keeper. I got mine in a small shop maybe 20 years ago where my son was taking drum lessons. My wife made fun of it all the way home, she shut up when I showed her the price in Musicians friend. They really do have a good sound. Probably much improved with the newer models. |
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Post by reverendrob on Feb 24, 2022 23:22:25 GMT -5
I have one.  An attempt by Ibanez to reach across the aisle to EDM and weird music. 24 fret RGKP6, includes a Kaoss Pad and a built-in high gain circuit. The latter smokes, I'd probably buy it in a pedal. Kaoss Pad mounted in the guitar lets the touchscreen x/y/tap axis be used by a dextrous pinky while playing, and the hold function for other things. |
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Post by Blacksunshine on Feb 28, 2022 18:15:18 GMT -5
This thread got me curious to see how much Parker Flys are going for nowadays.
Holy moly!
Lots!
I had a friend who played in a cover band with one. He said because of the pickups, the acoustic pickup in the bridge, and the switching, he could nail 95% of guitar tones ever recorded.
He wasn't lying. That guitar would do it all.
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Post by HenryJ on Mar 17, 2022 7:50:49 GMT -5
The Rickenbacker 366-12. It had a comb-like contraption that deadened 6 of the strings to make it a 6-string guitar.
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Post by twangmeister on Mar 19, 2022 18:22:38 GMT -5
Whatever happened to Kramer guitars? Edited to add: I didn’t realize Taj Mahal was young once. Gibson owns Kramer now. I used a heavy aluminum-necked B-200 for nearly thirty years. It proved to me that a bass didn't need two or three pickups. |
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