Supersized Homemade Flying V Guitar

I have seen too many Homemade Guitars many times but this one is a little bit different. This is the biggest guitar that one man can play.

This Flying V is the largest one man playable guitar. It’s a gigantic flying V and was hand crafted at The Guitar Shack by Ralph Ciociano.  Over six months of work went into the crafting of this stunning instrument.

Ralph also  had showed his Giant Homemade Flying V guitar at the New York/Long Island Guitar show

The Giant Portuguese Guitar

Journeyman Pictures have made a great video about the Giantic Portuguese Guitar, Manufactured by a Local Guitar Maker.

This Guitar is a result of a 9 Month work, 16 Meters long 8 Meters wide and 4 tons weight of different woods.

It has been showned in the second biggest city of Portugal called “Porto“.

Here is the video of the Biggest Guitar in the World.

Ricardo Moyano Compilation of Turkish Folk Song Kara Toprak

I have had the privilege of working with Ricardo Moyano for a very short period of time. He is one of the greatest people born with real talent.

Ricardo Moyano is originally from Argentina and has been living in Istanbul, and traveling the world to share his love, passion; his music.

In this live concert recording, Ricardo is playing “Kara Toprak”, from legendary Turkish composer “Asik Veysel”. Ricardo’s compilation of “Kara Toprak” has brought this song back to life after many years of being composed with traditional folkloric theme.

Enjoy “Kara Toprak” with Ricardo’s style, and his flamenco guitar. This is fabulous:

Remember to check out Ricardo Moyano’s Official Website. Unfortunately, Amazon doesn’t carry most of Ricardo’s CD’s, but you can find a few Ricardo Moyano CD’s and some MP3’s at Amazon.

Coolest Custom Made Guitars

You can see too many custom designed products like furnitures, cars, jewellery etc. but it’s not easy to drop a cross the special designed custom made guitars..

Well, I think you are gonna like these guitars. They are all custom designed and reflects the owners personalities.

Here are some of the coolest handmade custom made guitars..

Gibson Proudly Presents The Robot Guitar

Everybody knows and loves Gibson.

Gibson is a company that never loose the spirit of innovation and always works for improving their technology.

“True to the spirit of innovation that inspired Gibson to invent the legendary Tune-o-matic bridge, the powerful humbucker, and the revolutionary Digital Les Paul, Gibson proudly presents the Gibson Robot Guitar… The world’s first guitar with robotic technology. “

Since the beginning days of guitar instrument’s invention most of the musicians had some problems about the guitar’s imperfections and lack of tonal precision. They always have fought to stay in tune on the stage or off the stage. Music Lovers and the performers has had to suffered through the show—halting, mood-killing atonal droning of a loudly amped guitar being brought into tune.

After the Gibson’s invention the performers will not have this kind of problems which effects their music’s quality and their concentrations. Not Anymore

Introducing the Gibson Robot Guitar. All you have to do is play it.

This technological instrument has an ability to tune itself at any tunes(like E, drop-D or C)

This Robot Guitar has accommodating a rechargable lithium battery on it and this battery let’s you to tune the instrument for 200 times.

here are some videos that introduce this perfect guitar

and some pictures

Some Helpful Tips for Buying an Electric Guitar

Guitar Diagram

A) Player: The most important element of a guitar is the player. Different people may have different sounds from the same guitar. Even anatomy of the fingers or stroke on the strings may affect the sound quality. The technique of the player is also very important. Some people may give their sole to the guitar while playing but some may not. In a word, musical note differs from person to person.

B) Furniture of the Guitar: Especially the furniture of the handle and body is very important. (mahogany ,basswood ,ash ,plexi ,pine apple…) Every wood may create a different sound. Basswood is a tree which may create a fast and soft, loud sound. (joe satriani ,petrucci ,van halen). That is why this guitar is used by the very fast players. Also, Mahogany (les paul) is used for calm and soft sounds.

C) Structure of the Handle: There is not a big choice group of this element. In the ordinary models usually maple or mahogany are used. The sound is thicker then.

Handle directly affects the quality of the sound. The more quality has the furniture, the better vibrations are sent and better the sound is. The thickness of the handle is really important. There are some alternatives about the handles: Gibson is narrow and has midlle thickness; fender is wide and thick, ibanez has midlle thickness and narrow.

An other component is the numer of the shields. For the 20th, 22th or 24th shield has different characteristics. The longer the length of the shield is, the longer the handle is. Also, the distance between flates get bigger. Of course this is related with the style and the brand of the guitar.

Also, the connection from handle to body has 3 types (some of the companies use mixed methods like prs, siggi or braun)

1. Set Neck (les paul or classic guitar)
2. Neck Thru (typical expensive jackson,esp)
3. Bolt On(fender strat, jackson dinky and all cheap guitars).

Set Neck: Two furniture is attached with the help of a glue. Also, there is a overhang to make a support. This overhang usually complicates the playibility of the string gap between 18th and 22th shield. Technique is still an important issue here.

Neck Thru: Handle is as long as body, body and handle is pressed. Even it may be screwed. Due to the reason that magnetics are connected to the handle, furniture of the handle becomes much more important. Sustain has the highest level in this type.

Bolt On: This is the method of attaching with screw and disc. Especially really fast players choose this method. It is used commen because of its costs being low.

D) Magnetics are the devices which tarnsforms the vibrations of the strings to the voice. It is made of a bobbin, covered with copper wire. Every garlic creates a diffrerence on the quality of volume. Now there are several brands in this field. If the volume does not satisfy your expectations, you need to buy a new bobbin after investigating the style definitely.

Magnectis can be observed in two sections: Single Coil and Humbucker. They may be active or passive. On this topic may be discussed for long time. You may not discuss on the delights of course. Both has advantages and disadvantages. Active magnetics give loud, neutral and noiseless volume.

The volume of passive magnetics change due to the brand. Magnetic area affects the strings more because they are much bigger. This makes a negative effect on the sustain and accord, but the melody still remains nice. The sounds are much natural. Ex: Joe satriani , Steve vai , Scott Ian , Dimebag Darrell, Dave Mustaine etc.

Humbucker is more noiseless than singlecoil. If it will be played with a high level of gain it should be chosen. Moreover, singlecoil is much dinamic and emphatic. Especially country, blues and jazz may be played with delight

E) Labor: If you do not get your guitar custom made; it means that your guitar is made in factory. This type of guitar has a standard. When you want to buy a guitar, the distance between string and handle sould be little, when you hold the guitar it needs to fit in your hand, comfort and to feel the handle is really important. Care to be taken about those points when a guitar is going to be bought. Of course when the quality of labor and furniture increases, the cost increases.

F) Bridge: Bridge modifies the playibility, inequality of frequency,also bridge is very important to create the volume. Every detail of bridge is important; like weight, the way the strings take place or connects to the body. Has 2 types:

Constant Bridge(tunamatic bridge): some models of the wilkinson and kahler, les paul

Active Bridge(Floyd Rose Bridge): This also has 2 parts as: one way(way to the handle), two ways

Every system has advantages and disadvantages. It is easier to change the strings if the guitar has constant bridge, however in the Floyd Rose model it is harder. Everyone his own style and uses choses his model according to his delight.

G) Brand and Prestige: Before we buy a guitar, we need to clear out what kind of guitar we are going to play.There are lots of brands right now in the market.First type is the original ones and the guitars that are made in Far East. The second type has a lower quality. IBANEZ has production of special guitars in Japan, and for serial productions this brand chooses Malaysi

The best thing to do is to make a detailed search in internet and before buying a product, to try it with your own hands. If you are not a professional player,it is better to try with a person who knows about this issue because the sale consultants in the shops may show a low quality brand as a high one.

H) Other Factors: The guitar equipments are totally different from this subject. There are thousands of choices for analog setups, amphlifiers, digital processors. Analog setups give more natural volume. Digital processors may give less natural volume. The choice depends on persons delight., but as previous topics the user has to make a detailed search before buying guitar or its components.

A funny mistake from our childhood movie with a guitarist eye !

I don’t think that there isn’t any person who doesn’t know the movie “back to the future”.. it is our childhood film from 80’s..

There was a well known scene that marty mcfly was playing “Johhny b. Goode” from Chuck Berry who is the master of Gibson Guitars and rock n’ roll of 50’s and 60’s.. while marty was playing “go johnny go go go”, the year was 1955.. and he was playing a Gibson ES335..

You can see the guitar that marty is playing below:

But this guitar was produced at 1958.. : )

I think the producer of the movie had choosed this guitar because of its excellent tone and sound.. you cannot get this excellent tone for this song, on every guitars.. so they had choosed this guitar knowingly.. but it was a funny situation with a guitarist eye as i said before..

When we had watched this movie as child, we didn’t recognize this mistake..

But now, with a guitarist eye, it is a funny movie mistake..

You can watch this scene from here and hear this excellent sound..
Marty mcfly (Michael j. Fox) is really playing this song.. he is not pretend to play guitar..

 

The World’s First Fretted / Fretless String Instrument

Think about a guitar that can convert from fretted situation to fretless.. It’s very easy to do that when you are playing the instrument. It uses a rounded facet in fretted mode and a flat facet in fretless mode.  The principle behind the mechanism is a rotating fret.

Let’s see some videos how that frets work..

Convertible (Fretted/Fretless) Bass Guitar Demo

 

Convertible 6 String Electric Guitar

 According to MIKEY GUITAR (the manufacturer of these instruments) These instruments do not need for maintenance or adjustment. the meterials used for making the frets are polished stainless steel for long life. The frets require no lubrication.

They have also had a stress test to prove the durability of the mechanism. The mechanism was hooked up between two solenoids and driven back and forth. A counter kept track of the cycles. The “clack clack” sound of the solenoids drove everyone nuts but, over the course of 8 weeks, the mechanism was cycled 1,000,581 times. That’s equal if you switch 20 time back and forth a day for about 137 years. there is no signs of wear in this observation.

Vivaldi’s Four Season Concerto Covered by Populer Guitarists

The most famous Italian violin player and magnificent composer of fabulous concertos and sonatas. Antonio Lucio Vivaldi  was one of the important person who had lived at baroque period at 18th century. Today His important works are still listening by too many clasiccal music lover and also performers are trying to cover his songs by different instruments like todays popular instrument “electric guitar”. His most populer concerto work four season’s(le quattro stagioni) one of his best works.

Here are some populer guitar players’ performance videos. They are playing the 2nd part of concerto four season. This part is called “summer”. In italian it’s called l’estate

I hope You are gonna like these performances.. It’s very interesting to listen a classical concerto in a Rock music instrument electric guitar. It’s an interesting combination.

enjoy the cover performances..

Children of Boddom Guitarists Alexi Laiho and Roope Latvala’s Cover Performance

Mr. Big’s ex Guitarist Paul Gilbert’s Performance

Korean Successful Guitarist Funtwo’s(jeong hyun lim) Performance

18-String Bass Guitar

This was my first experience to see a picture of 18-String Bass Guitar. I’m really influenced and started to think about too many questions like “how to play this instrument?” or “how are they tuning this guitar?” etc.

let’s make acquaintance this instrument more…

Modulus 18-String Bass and Allen Woody

Modulus produced this 18- string bass for Tom Peterson in the beginning of 1980’s.  The model was neck- through including a custom Stars Guitars brass bridge. According to modulus founder Geoff Gould, it is short 30 ½ scale. The neck is around 2 ¼ wide at the nut and around 3 ¾ wide at the 24th fret. This bass was cretaed around the same time that Petersson left Cheap Trick. Petersson is said not to like it and then it was shipped back to Modulus. Allan Woody got in touch with Modulus around that time and asked if an 18- string as the one you made for Tom Petersson could be built for him. When he was informed that the actual Petersson bass convinient, he became the new owner. He was stil holding it at the time of his death.

Vox Humana 18-String Bass

In the Netherlands this 18- string bass created by Vox Humana as a custom order. Photos courtesy of Rene van Loon at at the Music Centre Vox Humana.