Statistics: Posted by frankpaush — Wed Aug 15, 2007 2:58 am
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To the different coating materials: as far as I am informed all skins are fitted by a combination of heat and lamination techinques, no matter which consistence they have.
Maybe the feitshguitar publisher knows more acurate stuff about it.
Statistics: Posted by frankpaush — Mon Aug 13, 2007 1:41 pm
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And as far as I know, you're right about the Amerikaner. But (bringing up Russia again) they do look a bit like "pastries" that I used to get all the time in St. Petersburg. I'll have to try this recipe out for myself. Maybe it will be the first American Amerikaner...
Statistics: Posted by erikferguson — Mon Aug 13, 2007 11:06 am
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(...and maybe would have to fight fishermen revolting because of low wood quality ... )Upper row contains at least 3 plastic skinned models, all cheaper ones (Lindberg Catalog " Triumph der Instrumente"**) page 24, around 1965):
I didn't check Frankfurters there, yet.
But you will be confronted with problems asking for "Berliner" in Berlin, because they call them "Pfannkuchen", which will result being provided with a pancake in the rest of Germany
And as far as I know you can't even buy an "Amerikaner" in the states ...
http://www.marions-kochbuch.de/rezept/0475d.htm
**) quite a strange title for a catalog, telling us much about the school the public relation section of Lindberg had been visiting ... "Triumph des Willens" came to my mind at once, the 1935 film by Leni Riefenstahl ...
Statistics: Posted by frankpaush — Mon Aug 13, 2007 10:44 am
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And what about frankfurters in Frankfurt? I've never had one of those.
Statistics: Posted by erikferguson — Mon Aug 13, 2007 9:54 am
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$265 for an Italian guitar is very expensive, in a time when Germans had to pay 1100 Deutsch Marks for a Fender Stratocaster and 4 Marks for 1$ .... if my calculation is correct Americans had to pay about the same for the Supreme as Germans for the Strat, strange ....
Statistics: Posted by frankpaush — Sun Aug 12, 2007 6:15 pm
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And Frank, trust me, most Americans DON'T know anything about geography, so it probably only makes sense that the site would be organized in a way that we can understand!
But really, as for the larger question of grouping things, in my mind, most of the Japanese models from that era really must be separated from others, for reasons of design and construction quality. So if one were to start dividing things there, then of course it's difficult to be consistent in further delineation. You probably have to start somewhere, and if you do, you have to stop somewhere too.
In the end, I don't mind a little bit of national and regional overlap. Globalization has its good points: I've never had the chance to go to Italy, but I found one of the best cappuccinos I've ever had, at the airport in Frankfurt.
Statistics: Posted by erikferguson — Sun Aug 12, 2007 3:47 pm
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Erik, thought you might like to see this unmarked "Tonemaster" that appeared in a 1965 Bennett Brothers catalog. It has some characteristics similar to yours although the controls are completely different.
Statistics: Posted by VintAxe — Sun Aug 12, 2007 10:16 am
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The bad thing is: your way of groupimg the world has a lot of similiarities to what European people think is American geographical konwledge concerning the rest of the world
Statistics: Posted by frankpaush — Sat Aug 11, 2007 12:11 pm
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After that decision, the nightmare begins. What do you do with companies that began in the US and then moved to Asia? I chose to classify according to country of origin, so you'll see a company like Epiphone listed as American although they haven't built a guitar here in years.
As for Canada and Australia, I placed them in European manufactures for a couple of reasons. First, I thought European builders largely inspired their "guitar making tradition". From a practical stand point, The European builder list was shortest and seemed a good place to put these two difficult to classify countries. I'm sure if I put Canadian companies with American builders and Australian companies with Asian builders based of regional proximity, both my Canadian and Australian visitors would cry foul.
Now, what do you do with a company that builds guitars in Israel or South Africa? I'm afraid there are simply not enough builders in these regions to justify Middle Eastern or African categories. So reverting back to my previous logic, into that European melting pot they go.
So, the bottom line is that I should have never attempted to classify guitar manufactures at all. Unfortunately, I'm a compulsive organizer so that choice really wasn't an option.
All I can ask is that you cheerfully tolerate my flawed, but now embedded system.
sb
Statistics: Posted by VintAxe — Sat Aug 11, 2007 11:26 am
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offtopic EDIt: just found out Israel is part of Europe as well
(VinAxe sorts Gittler to European guitars in the catalog section
)Statistics: Posted by frankpaush — Fri Aug 10, 2007 7:17 am
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The logic I DON'T understand is why it's so difficult to find Stravinsky in a Russian record store...
Statistics: Posted by erikferguson — Thu Aug 09, 2007 5:59 pm
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Statistics: Posted by frankpaush — Thu Aug 09, 2007 4:40 pm
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