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The two main four-string Selmer models were a regular tenor guitar with a smaller body and a 23 inch scale length for standard CGDA tuning, and the Eddie Freeman Special, with a larger body and a longer 25.5-inch scale length, using a reentrant tuning for the A string which was designed by English tenor banjoist Eddie Freeman to have a better ...
In the early 1930s, Freeman designed the "Eddie Freeman Special 4-String Guitar" for Selmer Music Company, to implement the guitar method he had developed in Baltimore. One of the Selmer- Maccaferri guitars , the Eddie Freeman Special had the scale-length and body-size of a standard guitar, and used a reentrant CGDA tuning, that had a better ...
A model with a 4-string bass and a 6-string guitar neck was called the EBS-1250; it had a built-in fuzztone and was produced from 1962 to 1968 and again from 1977 to 1978. [ 4 ] In 1963, the solid-body EDS-1275 was designed, resembling the SG model ; this version of the doubleneck was available until 1968. [ 5 ]
This guitar, also known as the Schrammel guitar, has a fretted six-string neck and a second, fretless neck with up to nine bass strings. One of the more common combinations is where one neck of a double-necked guitar is set up as for a 6 string guitar and the other neck is configured as a 4 string bass guitar.
Photos and video show him often playing a blonde one [54] and also a sunburst, which was featured in The Last Waltz. [ citation needed ] Throughout the 1990s, Danko played a custom-built hollow-body electric bass by luthier Mark Dan, with Alembic pickups, [ 55 ] which he referred to as "One of the greatest basses that I've ever had". [ 51 ]
In early 1937, Gibson began shipping two four-string versions: a tenor guitar (the EST-150, with a 23" scale, renamed the ETG-150 in 1940) and a plectrum version (the EPG-150, with a 27" scale). [5] Early players included Eddie Durham , Floyd Smith and, the most famous of them, Charlie Christian, who bought an ES-150 in 1936.
The strings pass over a movable bridge and are gathered at the tail, as on a mandolin. Two "moustache" markers are fixed to the soundboard to help position the movable bridge. The top of the guitar is gently arched or domed — a feature achieved by bending a flat piece of wood rather than by the violin-style carving used in archtop guitars ...
A Nitro-Hemi Lace Sensor on a hand-made Girouard Guitar. A Lace Sensor "Dually" is effectively a double coil unit combining two Lace Sensor single coil pickups in a humbucker configuration. The terminal leads of both pickup coils are accessible individually, so that they can be wired for a coil-splitting option or any other configuration. [1]