LightenUpFrancis
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Trying to follow forum etiquette, I thought perhaps a new thread would serve better than reviving one more than a decade old.
My appreciation for the history and design of the electric guitar is a passion that has inevitably led me into many a room with instruments valued well beyond a lifestyle I ever plan to achieve. This is meant less as a discussion of differences between a true antique example and a reproduction; I'm curious my fellow string pickers: is there an instrument that - in feel, sound, or simply presence - conveys to you a strikingly honest depiction of a bygone era?
For me, among a few others, it's a 1956 (2016) Danelectro Baritone. Despite different construction processes, component tolerances, and finish materials, this gem manages to elicit the same reaction from me as an example built 60 years earlier.
Even if it doesn't happen to be an electric guitar, is there a piece that captures this connection for you?
My appreciation for the history and design of the electric guitar is a passion that has inevitably led me into many a room with instruments valued well beyond a lifestyle I ever plan to achieve. This is meant less as a discussion of differences between a true antique example and a reproduction; I'm curious my fellow string pickers: is there an instrument that - in feel, sound, or simply presence - conveys to you a strikingly honest depiction of a bygone era?
For me, among a few others, it's a 1956 (2016) Danelectro Baritone. Despite different construction processes, component tolerances, and finish materials, this gem manages to elicit the same reaction from me as an example built 60 years earlier.
Even if it doesn't happen to be an electric guitar, is there a piece that captures this connection for you?
