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Hondo was an American guitar company and brand owned by IMC, and later Musicorp, that produced a range of entry level to high-end acoustic guitars, electric guitars and basses with designs primarily based on those of classic models such as the Fender Stratocaster and the Gibson Les Paul.
The age of the tape, repair history of the guitar and manner of the repair strongly point to a guided rewind done by a highly skilled and experienced luthier. Sam Li is well known for his finishing and wood working skills, but also known for his "unconventional" pickup repairs, traits also exemplified by his work on another legendary guitar ...
Freemake Video Downloader is a crippleware download manager for Microsoft Windows, developed by Ellora Assets Corporation. It is proprietary software that can download online video and audio. [2] [3] Both HTTP and HTTPS protocols are supported. Users must purchase a premium upgrade to remove Freemake branding on videos and unlock the ability to ...
A dark blue Jackson Dinky with a Reverse Headstock and Tune-O-Matic style fixed bridge (as opposed to the far more common Floyd Rose tremolo system), 2005. The Jackson Dinky is a Superstrat-style double-cutaway electric guitar built by Jackson Guitars. [1] The "Dinky" is named for its slightly smaller than normal (7/8) body size.
Classical guitar headstock. A headstock or peghead is part of a guitar or similar stringed instruments such as a lute, mandolin, banjo, ukulele and others of the lute lineage. . The main function of a headstock is to house the tuning pegs or other mechanism that holds the strings at the "head" of the instrument; it corresponds to a pegbox in the violin fami
The Spectrum guitar was inspired by a Jackson guitar custom built for Jeff Beck, and was based on a Stratocaster style body but with a reversed pointed headstock, an early 1950s Fender P-Bass-inspired pickguard, wild colors, and an active tone circuit that produced a "wah" effect. The three single-coil pickups were in fact stacked humbucking coils.
Takamine steel-strings with squared-off headstocks are known as “lawsuit guitars,” even though there was never any litigation (the term most likely is a reference to a 1977 lawsuit filed by Gibson against Ibanez for infringing on their headstock design). To distance its guitars from Martin and other American makers, Takamine modified ...
The modern word guitar and its antecedents have been applied to a wide variety of chordophones since classical times, sometimes causing confusion. The English word guitar, the German Gitarre, and the French guitare were all adopted from the Spanish guitarra, which comes from the Andalusian Arabic قيثارة (qīthārah) [6] and the Latin cithara, which in turn came from the Ancient Greek ...