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????dumb question????
whats a 'western' guitar?
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Posted 27 July 2007 - 04:46 PM
yeah whats a 'western' guitar? today is the first time ive ever seen the term (the soho soundhouse fallout of sos, talking about a cheap ibanez) "...steal strung western guitars predominate rock and pop..." (im paraphrasing i cant remember it exactly). i did a bit of research (i suppose im still doing it?) and a dreadnought is big, i know theres a jumbo but where does that fit in? is a western just a 'normal' (yeah, deffine normal) full size guitar or is there more to it?
err thanks for putting up with my daft questions
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Posted 27 July 2007 - 05:46 PM
I believe that's the term for steel-string guitars, like nylon-strung guitars are also called 'classicals'.
I think.
I think.
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horrid soundscapes for horrid people.
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Posted 27 July 2007 - 06:00 PM
That's what it sounds like to me too, like in "modern Western society" or something, as opposed to old-style "classical" guitars. Kind of a dumb way to phrase it though.
(Or Eastern?
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Kind of a dumb way to phrase it though. He should just say steel-string or modern.
(Or Eastern?
)Kind of a dumb way to phrase it though. He should just say steel-string or modern.
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Posted 27 July 2007 - 06:14 PM
lol, yeah theres millions of 99pence (postage = cheap guitar, why do they do that?) chinese guitars on ebay as we speak
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Posted 27 July 2007 - 08:21 PM
"The word guitar is a Persian loanword to Iberian Arabic. The word qitara is an Arabic name for various members of the lute family that preceded the Western guitar."
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Posted 28 July 2007 - 06:34 AM
Me might mean this...
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Posted 29 July 2007 - 11:32 AM
QUOTE (w00dy @ Jul 27 2007, 05:46 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
i did a bit of research (i suppose im still doing it?) and a dreadnought is big, i know theres a jumbo but where does that fit in? is a western just a 'normal' (yeah, deffine normal) full size guitar or is there more to it?
err thanks for putting up with my daft questions
err thanks for putting up with my daft questions
Tonally a dreadnought is in the same class as a jumbo, w/ the jumbo's haveing a slightly deeper bass resonance. Dreads seem to feedback easier than Jumbos because of the lack of a tight waist, I think the sounds feeback a lot more.
After that comes the Grand Auditorium size, then Grand Concert, then Parlor type guitars.
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