Relevant Ads Out Of My League
I was just answering some emails. Gmail has these little ad links that pop up unobtrusively on top of the in-box. This link for DHR Music’s Benedetto Guitar page came up after an correspondence with another guitar player.
This 2007 La Venezia caught my eye.
17″ Carved Archtop, Venetian Cutaway, Violinburst Finish.
The La Venezia represents the pinnacle of pure acoustic archtop design, materials and craftsmanship—and is a culmination and celebration of Robert Benedetto’s experience as both a guitar and violin maker. Every aspect of this guitar has been designed, built and tuned to present the premium tonal palette for the most discriminating player. From its hand–selected European cello woods, ebony cello–style tailpiece, and finely carved re–curve in the top and back, to its aesthetically classic design—void of binding and inlays—La Venezia’s beauty is unparalleled.
$21,200.00 (retail is $26,500 and a lot of the other guitars have the “contact for details”), comes with hard shell case.
Don’t they know who I am?
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Pribek At Zazzle
The post to blame: Most Peculiar Mama (Don't Eat Your Cat)
Could be a potential sponsor…keep your fingers crossed!
yeah, I’ll do that-I was thinking that the best case scenario would be one of these hand wired, boutique amp guys whose wife is in the gourmet coffee business
I’m on it… got it: Google in “JAVA GIGOLO”
Are all Bali beach boys gigolo’s?
do you want me to contact them?
The other week my other half (the native Springfieldian) went to a design exhibition. It was upscale. His eye came to rest on an unassuming desk that looked like it’d been made from a slab o’ wood for the top and three roughly hewn slabs for legs.
Curious as to how much such a thing would retail for he inquired the price. ‘One hundred and twenty six’ was the answer.
‘Pounds?’
‘No… Euros… thousands’
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY SIX T-H-O-U-S-A-N-D EURO (roughly $150,000)
For a frikkin’ rough table.
He sheepishly asked whether it was, like, recycled or something. Apparently it was ‘faux recycled’.
There are circles that most of us will never, ever, travel in.
But you gotta admit, that’s a very cool guitar.
I think the reason there’s not a jazz guitar revival, which is the instruments are priced above the ability of the potential players to buy them.
I can hear the difference between a $400 Alvarez and a $2000 Martin, but I can’t imagine what a $25000 would sound like.
Sounds like an awful lot of money to me!
:-)
I saw a Gondolier in Venice paddling his gondola with one of these… yep.
Sans: “I can hear the difference between a $400 Alvarez and a $2000 Martin, but I can’t imagine what a $25000 would sound like.”
From the DHR site —
NOTE: To hear great guitar recordings from J Curve Records while you browse, you may need to defeat your pop-up blocker.
LINK to hear: Play Music
I would say from the sound of it, mid-tones are its selling point.
I think it is way too much, and I honestly ask myself if it would make any difference. We were speaking about tone being in our fingers, right? Do you think that buying a $26k guitar would make you sound better? What could they actually put in it to make it that expensive?
:did anyone ever see the movie the “Red Violin”? [not you Pribek, becuz' you are a cine-phobe]
That might be the secret ingredient… “Anna chooses five cards, and Cesca’s first card signifies that Anna would live a long life. In the meantime, Nicolo has fashioned a new violin, one that he considers his masterpiece, with the hopes that their child will become a musician.”
Something for which a prefecture of Romania is famoux four: and something you can’t call Obama, since he ain’t a brother in the strict sense.
Today’s riddle: What could they actually put in it to make it that expensive?
It flows like water
only thicker
if it were a stream
it’s source was at the slaughter
Count blessings
While awake
when you start to dream
you might be Romaine dressing…
What am I?
Iknow one thing; guys that do have $25,000 guitars say they are worth the price.
Ovidiu, let’s make some defining points.
Not every dollar you put into a guitar helps tone. What does binding do for tone? What does a MOP inlay do for tone? What do gold tuners do for tone? What does a sunburst finish do for tone? Not much of anything, but it makes it all pretty. Look at the Chinery blue guitars, and while I do lust in my heart for any one of them, I know it’s much more about him being able to throw money at the issue than about those just being amazing tone machines.
On the other hand, there is a tonal difference between different woods, between bracing styles, between scale lengths and a lot of other things. Some sound better, some work in different contexts, some just sound different, and it helps to know how to put all that together, which gets you into the “$10 to hit the dingus with a hammer, $4990 to know where to hit the dingus” territory. You pay a few $K more for a Martin or Taylor than you do for a Fender or Alvarez, and I am not sure that 100% of that money contributes to it being a better sounding instrument, even while I am sure that the Martin will be a better sounding instrument.
$26,000, that’s half my yearly pay or so. I can’t imagine a gig where I wouldn’t be scared to bring an instrument that costs more than half again what the sticker on my car said when I got it. I can’t imagine not being terrified to leave it home with my curious children when I go to work. And I can’t imagine how much better that would sound than a $500 Godin or Gretsch archtop, because archtop tone is far different than flattop tone, more punchy and all about the attack with no sustain. The archtop is mostly about punching out and being heard unplugged in the presence of drums and brass instruments. “Tone for days” sucks in that environment. Attack volume is the key. For the $26,000 instrument to be that much better, I had better be able to hear him comping over a shredder with a Marshall stack.
But that’s for me, the jealous guy.