Steinberger GT Pro Guitar: Possible Jazz Setups for an affordable travel guitar. 

Marco!!! It’s been too long. And I love your playing too:).

Thank you. For the price you can’t go wrong.

I saw him playing a SB at the Willow’s in Somerville MASS with the Jerry Bergenzi quartet back in 95. I also took couple of semesters with him at Berklee in 97’. He was a great musician and a teacher. He used to bring that guitar to the lessons. He actually recorded with that guitar on that Steve Swallow’s album call “the real book. Check that out if u haven’t yet! I might have to go back to it myself.i think he’s using some pedals on that album..anyway..Thnx for the kind words.

@@Tetasha 🙏

I play around NYC and the Tri-State area. I do not travel much these days but I do if it has a good cause:).

Allan Holdsworth and Kazumi Watanabe played them as well as many more jazz players. They're two of the best ever. Ned Steinberger makes instruments now for classical musicians but my P-type gets great jazz and clean tones.

Yes, I might! The TI are great. I personally liked the George Benson set they have on one of the archtop guitar I used to have.

@@Avirothbard I also use the D'Angelico roundwounds 10-47 or 10-50 (my choice) and in those, The G string is 23W. Man, those Electrozink feel almost like flats but with the punch of roundwounds. They are less expensive that TI.

Yea I’m thinking about it too.I also noticed the middle pickup has a bit of a low output. Very underrated guitar indeed.

@@Avirothbard I also refretted mine with larger frets. I glued them in and the guitar feels and sounds so much better. I put in a Dimarzio Air Norton on the Neck. A rock pickup yes, but sounds so good for jazz. It has unbelievable clarity, dynamics and even-ness to the sound. You can hear note separation clearly with voicings. Plus the guitar is pretty much indestructible, light weight and easy to travel with. Also got this brass head piece so I can use regular strings without paying an arm and a leg for double ball ends. My old teacher, Mick Goodrick, played one. That's where I got the idea from initially and when I saw them on sale for $400 I figured why not.

@@orangeblue3531 yea I forgot to mention I also put the brass piece on the headstock as well(it is covered). It’s next to impossible to find any double ball sets other than one brand maybe and it is always 10-46(unless you get it from Daddario direct). They can get pricy for sure. I’m ok with the frets actually but I have a Dunken SH-1 laying in here I might try to have my tech guy install on the neck.

@@8nexus8 תודה🇺🇸🇮🇱

Thank you. Yea it has been ok so far.

I played an original Steinberg for years. I don't know about the Spirit model but mine had body that was quite heavy and never had neck dive.

@@arlandehavilland1355 No neck dive issues here yet. By the way, the neck is made from a type of rosewood, not graphite like the original SB

Thanks for your comment! I have actually tested Gibson's warranty and customer service regarding parts for this guitar. Their customer service rep was quite helpful and sent me extra bridge saddles that were ordered from Epiphone at the time. But I hear your point about the lack of info regarding parts on the Gibson/SB websites.

@@Avirothbard Perhaps Gibson support has improved recently. When I phoned them pre-covid about getting a new bridge, they were very arrogant and basically said I needed to go thru an authorized dealer - which I did. That store kept trying to contact Gibson for weeks with no success. I've since bought a Kiesel headless which I'm quite happy with, and still have the Spirit as a travel guitar.

@@TechnoRiff That live agent was pretty cool. We connected ok.

@@Avirothbard 👍

These are around the $400 ball park. Worth it IMHO.

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@@hustlinc3540 I’m enjoying it a lot.

Have you listened to his playing at all?!- superb!! Just trying to help:)... Avi, you got yourself a new subscriber! love your playing man!

@@guitarontheflipside596 oh yeah he's great no doubt. Why not help him out though? I know English isn't his first language, but if he goes around saying "wounded" (which is actually a word with a different meaning and pronunciation), he's gonna get some weird reactions 😆. Why should we be so sensitive about this? If I were attempting to speak another language and I was mispronouncing a word, I would gladly accept help from a native speaker of that language.

@@cobyup10Helping out is wonderful! but honestly, I thought it was ridiculous that this was the only thing you commented on. Have a great day!

@@guitarontheflipside596 and I thought it was ridiculous that you were so hurt by me just trying to explain to him that they're called wound strings and not wounded. Have a shit day! 😆