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[3] This guitar is now encased in glass in the Gene Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles, California. [4] The next year, Martin made one for Jackie "Kid" Moore, a "12-year-old singing cowboy from Milwaukee, Wisconsin." [5] These first two had a 12-fret neck; most others (except for the 6th, made in 1937) made afterward had a 14-fret ...
An acoustic 12-string guitar hand-crafted in 1977. A twelve-string guitar (or 12-string guitar) is a steel-string guitar with 12 strings in six courses, which produces a thicker, more ringing tone than a standard six-string guitar. Typically, the strings of the lower four courses are tuned in octaves, with those of the upper two courses tuned ...
A vintage Takamine 12-string with a requinto style set-up. The Mexican twelve-string guitar, also known as a requinto-style or Sierreño-style guitar, is a modified twelve-string guitar. It can approximate the sound of a bajo sexto or bajo quinto and play regional Mexican styles, such as norteño, Tejano (Tex-Mex), and conjunto (música ...
The "Teeter Guitar", owned at one time by noted repairman Don Teeter and illustrated on the cover his 1980 book "Acoustic Guitar: Adjustment, Care, Maintenance and Repair Volume II", [22] also featured on the cover of "Frets" magazine, May 1988 and in the "Encore" section of "Guitar Player" magazine, February 1992 [23] and as a foldout on page ...
[citation needed] In keeping with Bechtel's request, Martin modified the shape of their 12-fret 000-size instrument, lowering the waist and giving the upper bout more acute curves to cause the neck joint to fall at the 14th fret rather than the 12th. Fourteen-fret guitars were designed to play with a pick and replace banjos in jazz orchestras.
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The scale, at 640 mm, and fretting of the early guitars was very similar to other contemporary guitars (including the Gibson and Martin guitar designs from which most modern acoustic guitar patterns ultimately derive), but with a wide fretboard more typical of a classical guitar; they also had 12 frets clear of the body, although left hand ...
Audrey Fualaau, the daughter of controversial couple Mary Kay Letourneau and Vili Fualaau, is pregnant. Taking to social media, Audrey, 27, shared the news she was expecting her first child with ...