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tk,
>I'm just going by what it says on the pack of strings that Jerry Jones
>made
>for the thing, I am not a purist and the presence of the word "true" in
>my sentence was not meant to be taken as gospel. 
ahhh..... sorry!
took ya literally.....

>dt:
>> actually, i really *like* the dano's, after a good luthier has 'set it
>up'; i
>> don't know, i have a fondness for certain funky instruments.....

>I could see that word "funky" going for the old Danos but not the new ones.
i meant 'funky-*cheap*';
ya know, when ya find instruments that aren't great, but are definitely 
useable, have some character & don't cost the world?
(i put 2 kids through *private* american universities, as a full-time freako 
musician-composer, ya dig.....)
i have noticed that the 'quality-bar' has been raised, at the lower end of 
the guitar-manufacture-scale..... makes it easier for the gtr-geek to 
assemble a wider array of functional instruments, eh?

>I do *like*
>the
>old Dano's pickups a little better than my Jerry Jones', a little darker
>sounding, maybe that has to do with aging... (?) what does dt think? coils?
>metal used? dunno...
different value on the *pots*, maybe?

>glissentar... he he... I like that name, gotta check it out.
11-strings / (doubled courses, but for the low string) / no frets / --- like 
ab oud! hence, my interest.
beware, though..... some of the earlier ones had really crappy tuners.

>what is the old one?
i made it.

>Did anyone ever make them commercially before Godin?
the french guy, who makes marc ducret's gtrs, maybe?
don't know.....

>> afaik, kim t. (soundgarden) detunes gtrs, rather than using baritones.
>> and: lotsa altrock dudes seem to be playing 7-string gtrs, the last coupla
>> years.

>I know a couple of guys from Seattle who know Kim very well and they said
>he
>*sometimes* uses a baritone and also sometimes detunes, so we're probably
>both right. Maybe we should call him and ask him?
okay!

>I think I got his #
>somewhere. 7 strings seem cool too but those Ibanez ones *look* funny to
>me,
i had a 7-string teuffell tesla here, for a while --- it was the prototype of 
my *new* gtr --- and i used it a bit, but not much (recording w/david bowie, 
recording w/tim berne) --- can't quite relate to the 7-strings.
don't like those quasi-pseudo-trendy ibanez 7's, wauuuuuuuugh!

>kinda like a bad 80's nightmare I once had where I was doing the
>hoodleehoodlee VanHalen/Vai tapping thing and grew extra fingers and
>couldn't stop. ahhhhh. woke up in a sweat...
ouch!

>dt. I learned a lot about how to take chances on gtr from watching you
>play as a kid at the Bottom Line in NYC, you're one of my faves in the
>experimental music scene. 
thanks! i certainly don't think of my playing as experimental, though.....

>I'm also a sarcastic smart ass guy from Long
>Island, Port Jeff... you're from Huntington originally if I'm not mistaken
>(?)... 
born in amityville, in the year of the horror.
raised in wantagh (jones beach).
late teens in north india.
montréal, toronto, upstate ny, nyc, london, (insert 'aachen', here), upstate 
ny since.
old guy, now!
end self-filtering bio.

>don't know if you're a smart ass with your mouth but you sure play
>like one (compliment).
thanks much, dude.
btw:
i tried to d-l one of yer tunes @..., but it failed -site caused 
funkyassed crash- will try again, later.
best,
dt / splattercell