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My three faves are all quite different in style… 1) Gordon Giltrap - whether in his 70s prog phase or later lone troubadour phase… I’ve lost count how many times I’ve seen Gordon live! 2) Steve Howe - Yes/GTR/Asia 3) Gary Moore - Thin Lizzy: another player I’ve seen live innumerable times. Honourable mentions… Phil Keaggy Dave Bainbridge - Iona & sessions Iain Bairnson - Kate Bush, Alan Parsons Project & sessions

So I needed to change the strings on my Brook acoustic - a small jumbo with a lovely, lively sound but well balanced. Anywa, I decided to try some coated strings to see how they worked and for a bit of extra in-case longevity. Normally I’ve used phosphor bronze strings on all my guitars before this but I bought some 80/20 bronze Elixirs and I hate them. The sound is horribly mid ranged and honky both acoustically and through the LR Baggs Dual Source pickup system. As I just DI straight in pulling back the mid on my EQ isn’t an option and the pickup system just has Vol and Piezo/Mic blend onboard. So anyone had experience with more mellow, even sounding coated strings? Should I try the Elixir Phosphor Bronze strings? Or is there another brand/type you might recommend for a nice, even, mellow sound. Ta.

Watched Gordon Giltrap playing a lovely fanned fret 12 string guitar that Fylde made for him. Sounded great. I think that the fanning helps with chording ergonomics as much a string tension stuff (which is more important on bass, I guess). From his website... “On the standard 6 or 12 string guitar, the top and bottom strings are almost at the limits of tensions for their appropriate notes. By “fanning” the frets to meet the “swing” of the left hand up and down the neck, the resulting changes in tension and gauges of the strings helps to produce clearer notes and more accurate intonation, particularly useful when there are 12 strings involved!”

Well let’s see... No x brace, no steel string (jazz boxes excepted), no steel string pre war maybe no popular take up of guitar (or even development of jazz boxes) (Victorian fashion for parlour guitars notwithstanding, having died out by then), maybe Les Paul/Adolf Rickenbacker/Travis Perkins (take your pick) invents first electric banjo or ukulele, or harmonica or accordion, maybe Jimi Hendrix revolutionises folk fiddle playing... But that’s not even the point. FFS it was just meant to be a bit of light hearted fun and discussion starter about the nature of the guitar and who made a difference at some point, not a bloody PhD thesis.

Never said he invented guitar, said he invented/popularised x-bracing - and hence was hugely influential in the development of the modern guitar. Sorry to be a killjoy to your killjoyness.

You could do a lot worse than this one up on the For Sale forum here. Not afilliated to the sale or seller, just thought, “Oooh, that’s nice!”

GLWTS. Love Gordon Smiths. Got a couple so sadly not in the market. That’s a beaut with that top and finish!

PS for extra diagnostic info... it’s only embedded links. Uploading images direct works fine. Initially I was linking to FB photos so initially checked FB permissions were all public. Then tried more straightforward online JPGs like the Anderton’s one above. Same problem. Hope that gives some extra help in tracking it down.

Oooh, that brings back memories! Lol! Presumably you’re using the same architecture to BC in which case confident you’ll fix it with a virtual switch flick!

So many... in sort of no particular order... Gordon Giltrap - right at the top of my list Gary Moore Steve Howe Phil Keaggy Wes Montgomery Alex Lifeson Ian Bairnson - Pilot, Kate Bush and The Alan Parsons Project Brian Robertson/Scott Gorham - The Classic Thin Lizzy line up! Stevie Ray Vaughan Larry Carlton ...that’ll do for now.

If you’re looking second hand don’t discount a used Gordon Smith. Amazing hand built British guitars for seriously low outlay! https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m570.l2632.R2.TR12.TRC2.A0.H0.Xgord.TRS0&_nkw=gordon+smith&_sacat=3858 PS see my avatar above...

Both Karl and Nick in the UK prog metal band Threshold used to use a couple of Pacificas (with some upgrades) as spare guitars and alternative tuning guitars on tour alongside their Jacksons, Charvels, Ibanezes etc. Sounded pretty good with a good set up and some better quality pickups. Not so shabby. I had a Pacifica Tele as my first ever electric. It was not a bad little guitar.

That S&P is very similar to my wife’s Norman B6 Folk. Same luthier stable - also a Godin brand. They make some lovely, well priced acoustic guitars. PS love the finish on that Tele xxx xxx

Saw this discussion elsewhere but thought it was interesting. There are four heads of the US founding fathers carved on Mount Rushmore. If we had a guitar history version, who would be there? In terms of developing the guitar my choices might be... C.F. Martin - for developing and/or popularising X-bracing George Beauchamp - for developing the first commercial electrified guitar-type instrument and patenting the single cone resonator Doc Kauffman - for the Vibrola on the Rickenbacker Electro-Spanish Ken Roberts guitar, and Leo Fender - of course for developing the first production line electrics and everything after... But what about developing guitar playing? Maybe... Charlie Christian (though my personal fave jazz player was Wes Montgomery) Davy Graham (or another of the 60s folkie boom players?) Jimi Hendrix Eddie Van Halen (perhaps looking a bit sheepish given the level of bad taste hair metal playing he unleashed throughout the 80s and beyond...) Thats much trickier... over to you guys...

My two porntastic acoustics. A Brook Tamar from 1999 and a Fylde Gordon Giltrap from about 2003.