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Topic: What's wrong with this picture?
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Steinar Gregertsen
Member From: Arendal, Norway
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posted 13 January 2004 05:08 PM
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Another eBay curiousity:
 As the text on eBay states; "The amazing thing is this guitar plays!"
Yes,- I would guess so when it's stringed like that.......  (The whole add is here ) Steinar ------------------
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[This message was edited by Steinar Gregertsen on 13 January 2004 at 05:09 PM.]
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Jon Light
Member From: Brooklyn, NY
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posted 13 January 2004 05:15 PM
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If you push the strings into the wall outlet it gets even louder!
That's a winner! |
Jeff Au Hoy
Member From: Honolulu, Hawai'i
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posted 13 January 2004 06:18 PM
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Good job, Jon. Fifteen non-peddlers just landed themselves in the hospital because of your comment.  |
Loni Specter
Member From: West Hills, CA, USA
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posted 13 January 2004 08:36 PM
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Darn, My secret's out! |
George Keoki Lake
Member From: Edmonton, AB., Canada
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posted 13 January 2004 11:01 PM
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I gave the identical guitar to my daughter in the hopes she would take to the steel guitar...she didn't. Maybe one day I'll get it back. Anyway, the idiot who strung that particular guitar (through the holes over the pickup) obviously doesn't play steel 
Those SUPROS were very plentiful around 1954 as many of my students had them when I was teaching during that era. One thing I learned about that guitar, if you happen to remove that top plate for any reason, the little alnicol (?) magnets at each end will slip off. If they are not placed back EXACTLY, with the N & S poles in the proper position, the p/u goes dead. I was cleaning her guitar when this happened to me. It was easy to fix of course. |
Roy Ayres
Member From: Starke, Florida, USA
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posted 14 January 2004 08:17 AM
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That's it! A mother-of-toilet-seat "Supro" just like the one I bought in a pawn shop in Mobile during WWII.If I recall correctly, they were made by Chicago Musical Instruments, and were really a "competition model" of the National. This brings back a lot of memories. |
Bill Creller
Member From: Saginaw, Michigan, USA
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posted 14 January 2004 10:57 AM
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Those old Supros had good pickups for, being simple. There is actually a magnet at one end and an aluminum piece on the other end, making it sort of a horse shoe, since the aluminum wasn't magnetic. That guitar could be fixed up in half an hour, and be a lot of fun to play. They were built by Valco according to my info,same as National, etc. The Supro pickups were used in many odd-brand steels.
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Steinar Gregertsen
Member From: Arendal, Norway
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posted 14 January 2004 11:09 AM
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My first lap steel was one of those Supro's (in the ugliest yellow MOTS..), and I loved the sound of it for overdriven stuff.But I can't remember anything about stringing it through the holes in the pickup cover... Steinar ------------------
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John Billings
Member From: Northfield Center, Ohio, USA
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posted 14 January 2004 11:41 AM
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I always string my Airline Rocket like that! |
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