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Sounds like fun, Caev.

The dim7 chord is "magical". Since it is built on "stacked" minor thirds (1,b3,b5,bb7), any note in the chord can be considered the "root". Hence, each diminished 7th chord has 4 different names. In addition, each dim7 chord generates 4 Dominant7b9 chords and each Dominant7b9 chord generates 4 dim7 chords. Pretty cool stuff!

@Caev, That'correct.

@Bro. Larry, They're handy little buggers. Dim7 chord inverts every 3 frets. Aug chord inverts every 5 frets. Opens up lots of possibilities

Additionally, if you lower any note in a diminished 7th shape, you get a dominant 7th shape.

A great musician. An icon. RIP.

It absolutely sounds like the real deal as I've been fortunate enough to play a Gibson version in the past. The pickups are Epiphone Alnico Classic Pros. @Delta: Thanks for the info. Enjoy playing her.

Glad you're happy with it. If you score a good Epi they're great values. I agree with you. Over the past few years, I have become a big believer in pickup upgrades. Do you know what pickups are on the guitar? I suppose the ultimate question is: Does it sound like an ES-335?

@Delta, I would be very interested in your opinion of the Epi 335 after you've played it for a couple of weeks. Especially, build quality, playability and of couse, Tone.

Bro. Larry, Agreed! I have emailed Winston and I believe he's coming back

Where is everyone? It's as quiet as a graveyard. Were we all so traumatized by the WF conundrum that we're catatonic? Whitefang is gone and in my opinion, this is a positive outcome. This forum will be a happier, more interactive environment as a result. Let's all make a commitment to making the forum a place where guitarists can congregate and discuss topics that interest us in a spirit of fellowship, mutual respect and comaraderie. What do you gentlemen think?

Always liked Leon's funky, ragtime finger picking and his voice was perfect for the material. RIP.

@J Dan, An excellent and insightful post. Well said. Well written.

What the hell are you talking about?!!! No one has taken any of your comments out of context and no one has disagreed with your position regarding improvisation and tribute bands/classical repertoire. You argue for the sake of arguing. BTW: Winston Smith has quit the forum, thanks to you. Winston and I have communicated via email and he told me that he was so disgusted by your argumentative posturing during the WF/Surfergirl conundrum that he quit. So, we lost another knowledgeable, experienced, highly skilled member thanks to you. Winston was right. You're nothing but a godamned troll. I've had it. I'm blocking you. Go to hell!

Thanks, Bro.! Very kind of you to share. I'll look forward to watching it.

Bro. Larry, One of the members on the JGF also recently purchased a Conti Heirloom and stated that it plays so easily that he has been playing it almost non-stop since he received it. BTW: did you receive a video of John Conti playing your guitar? I'd love to see it. Peerless makes very high quality instruments which are also very reasonably priced. I love my Monarch 16. An incredible value at $1400!

I disagree. I was taught and strongly believe that the ultimate goal is to develop your own sound, your own voice. A MUSICIAN should endeavor to sound like himself, not like someone else. My attitude is a direct result of the genres I have chosen to pursue. Jazz and Blues place great emphasis on the improvisational abilities. Pick any Jazz standard and search for the title on YouTube. The results of the search will display dozens of performances, all of which will sound very different from the others. That's MUSICIANSHIP. I would love to sound like Joe Pass, Barney Kessel, Bucky Pizzarelli et. al., but I steal ideas from them and make changes to them in order to reflect my own personal aesthetic. I steal ideas, but I don't copy. "Steal, but don't copy". - Ella Fitzgerald

I know I've told this story before, but it speaks directly to WF's comments. As I've freely admitted, I don't "Rock". I am a Blues and Jazz player. When I was teaching I taught some rock tunes to younger students who wanted them. One day one of my students brought in a lead sheet and a CD of Ozzie Osbornes' Crazy Train and asked me to teach it to him. I took the chart and CD home and worked through it. I taught him what I had come up with. I asked him, "Well, is that pretty close"? My student smiled and replied, "Actually, I think it's an improvement". Several people have told me that they prefer my arrangement of When You're Down And Out to Eric Clapton's (my arrangement is much more melodic). I have an arrangement of Leadbelly's Blackgirl that is light years ahead of Curt Cobain's, who like other "grunge" players was actually proud of being unskilled. Do these things make me "full of myself"? I don't think so. I have invested years of formal study with four highly skilled and very demanding teachers and THOUSANDS of hours of practice into acquiring my guitar skills. Is it unreasonable or egotistical for me to take some pride in my accomplishments? Again, I don't think so. Professional musicians are just flesh and blood human beings. They might play a solo one way on Monday and differently on Tuesday. Their musical thinking on any particular take may me a function of how much/little sleep they've gotten, which intoxicants they've ingested and when they last had sex. Being famous and successful does not necessarily equate with skill or "talent". For example S.R.Vaughn was a brilliant guitarist. I really don't think his brother Jimmy is very good at all. I find his playing very predictable and sophmoric.

Bro. Larry, Thanks. I watched the show in its entirety on PBS last night. BTW: Have you received your Conti guitar yet? You haven't mentioned it since you announced buying it.

Watching the 2018 Blues Music Awards on PBS. Good show! Lots of excellent guitar work from a lot of musicians I've never heard of Lots of slide players.

My guitars exist in one of three states: In their case In my hands On a stand

With no added comment, all I can say is I saw one that DID beep demonstrated at Marshall's Music in Allen Park, MI 'bout 20 or so years ago. Whitefang Of course you did.

"We have the technology"! But, I bet that in some "serious" school of music somewhere, they are still use the old fashioned mechanical ones.

To my knowledge, Electronic metronomes DO NOT BEEP! They "tic-toc" just like a mechanical model.

Caev, I'm not sure if I'm prepared to live in a world with NO Allman Bros. Band.