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I've a theory that a more interesting neck pickup would sod up the tonal balance it creates with the bridge pickup, and I definitely dont want that to happen. Effectively I'm using the two pickups to make a one sound instrument and that's fine by me. The combination of strings and pickups as they are seemingly allows me to get a wide range of tone and dynamics from varying my touch, like on a piano. My P with a Dimarzio Model P pickup, on the other hand, makes a fantastic characterful sound, but one that isn't so flexible: it needs playing in a certain way to sing out, and if I try to vary my touch and play more expressively, the tone doesn't follow me, it just falls away. I like having the choice.

If you've separate voices moving in different directions, choosing sharps or flats can make their individual lines easier to understand from each pov. So you might end up with C# and Db being written simultaneously.... If we then return the Gb and Ab to that first chord and see where they might want to go.... I've no idea what that's like as music, but your pedant will have no cause for complaint

The lyrics of this song are basically a riff on a poem written by Heine in the early 19th nineteenth century and set to music by Schumann as the last song of his Dichterliebe: The bad old songs, The bad and bitter dreams, Let us now bury them. Fetch me a large coffin. I have much to put in it, Though what, I won’t yet say; The coffin must be even larger Than the vat at Heidelberg. And fetch a bier Made of firm thick timber: And it must be even longer Than the bridge at Mainz. And fetch for me twelve giants; They must be even stronger Than Saint Christopher the Strong In Cologne Cathedral on the Rhine. They shall bear the coffin away, And sink it deep into the sea; For such a large coffin Deserves a large grave. Do you know why the coffin Must be so large and heavy? I’d like to bury there my love And my sorrow too.

That sounds likely to me - I find on its own the neck pickup of my 424 very soft toned and biteless

Please may we have a report on how different the neck pickup is sounding now? Both on its own and combined with the bridge?

I was just reading up on Stuart Pearce's fondness for The Stranglers. He said he liked their air of menace — and I think that's what the difference between the original and this version: in the original the chorus shifts to quite a sunny tone. Here, that menacing quality runs through, no matter what.

GAK's MIJ BB-VI with non-reversed pickup is now down to £449.

"This Song sounds so Stranglers it’s hard to believe that it’s actually a cover brought in by album producer Louie, who once produced a band called The Disciples of Spess who had a tune called, This Song Will Get Me Over You which still lurks on Spotify." I'm not sure when that track dates from. This I know is from 1987, also a good song

Thank you for the nice long write up

I didn't for a moment imagine that he would do such a thing to one unless it was battered beyond recognition. But that particularly handsome bit of tort...and that bound neck...ahh they deserve better.....

Ah the penny drops at last. Fanx

I especially liked the neck / pick at 1'43". But I would. I also came across a demo of the SB-75 which started with a style conscientious youtube demos don't normally include:

You going to have yours stripped and refinished in LPB?

Keep an eye on Peacock Auctions in Bedford

Has anyone ever read an explanation for Yamaha's 33¾" scale length back then? It doesn't look any prettier written in metric – 85.725 cm. Am looking forward to be hearing how much effort is needed to feel the difference. PS a choice of either natural or targetburst, what a world it was.

Presumably it looks a lot more trad once the player's arm is coming over and covering the bulkier bit of the body

A photo of me and my Westone back when I was a Jesus and Mary Chain-loving Third Former* These days, I'm rather proud of the sulky, world-weary expression I'm displaying at such a tender age. I'm rather less proud of what I did to that poor guitar's electronics three years later *Year 9 (apparently)

I grew up playing a natural finish guitar and found the refined tastefulness of its appearance jarred with the noises I was making with it. One day the ghost of my teenage self with be avenged and all those pretty strips of wood will disappear under a nice thick coat of blazing red.

Currently obsessed with Spanish Copper Metallic

"Greatest lyric poet since Keats"

It was Lady Bracknell: To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Big shortage of Dimarzios new atm