I never believed, to hear so much interesting things about the instrument, i love and play. You are a real treasure for the world of guitars!!! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge !!!
Excellent seminar. Thanks for posting. I used to live in Arvada and enjoyed the olde Towne scene for several years. Hope to come back for the 2nd annual festival.
The way Ken builds his archtops reminds me a lot how Mario Maccaferri designed his famous gypsyguitars for the Selmer company in the late nineteentwentys, to be played in a noisy cafe without amplifier. Thin spruce top, lightweight design, lightweight and hollow bridge, long scale. By the way the top of these guitars was arched for stability reason, not by carving but by heat forming. And than there was Django.....
I think the point Ken was making was that after the pickup came along, all work on archtop guitars went to reducing feedback, rather than trying to refine the acoustic qualities of it.
Dan Armstrong jokingly said he had to "epoxy 12 sound posts" inside the D'Aquisto acoustic archtop to reduce the feedback, just to get a rise out of Jimmy. Which he did.
Interesting stories, low technical contents, sad to hear the man blaming recent development tools. Reminds me of journalists criticizing the Pink Floyd of DSOTM for letting machines make their musics...
