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erik Member From: |
posted 17 September 2002 06:51 PM
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They make great looking guitars. I especially like the rarer Gibson ones. |
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Smiley Roberts Member From: Hendersonville,Tn. 37075 |
posted 17 September 2002 11:02 PM
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Well,I don't know for sure but you've, probably,already guessed it. ------------------ |
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Michael Johnstone Member From: Sylmar,Ca. USA |
posted 18 September 2002 09:52 AM
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Doesn't that go back about 500 years to Italian violins? |
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David Doggett Member From: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
posted 18 September 2002 10:58 AM
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Yeah, I think all the orchestral strings had a sort of sunburst, going way back. Who knows when. But it was a lot more subtle than what Gibson did. |
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Bobby Lee Sysop From: Cloverdale, North California, USA |
posted 18 September 2002 11:38 AM
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The Line 6 Variax is available in sunburst.  I've always liked that look.------------------ |
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John Kavanagh Member From: Kentville, Nova Scotia, Canada |
posted 27 September 2002 06:40 AM
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I'd guess that it's something that was originally a natural phenomena on some fiddles as they aged. People liked the look and associated it with quality instruments, so the look started to be one way of decorating new instruments. Now, how it might happen naturally I don't know, but I think about oxidation: the blackening of an unfinished barn or even the way a cut apple turns brown, and I think the sunburst does have that sort of look to it. Maybe because the finish is thicker on the edges or the top gets cleaned more what with rosin dust and all. Or perhaps it happens on a fiddle where the top is finished with oil or egg white instead of varnish. Just guesses, maybe a luthier out there has an educated opinion. [This message was edited by John Kavanagh on 27 September 2002 at 06:44 AM.] |
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Mike Weirauch Member From: Harrisburg, Illinois**The Hub of the Universe |
posted 27 September 2002 10:17 AM
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quote: ......I thought Bobbe Seymour invented that a couple of years ago. |
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Gregg Galbraith Member From: Goodlettsville,Tn.,USA |
posted 27 September 2002 10:51 AM
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Surely it was Al Gore ! |
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Cairo Zoots Member From: Moville, Iowa ,next to the west fork of the Little Sioux River |
posted 27 September 2002 10:02 PM
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Legend has it, that a German immigrant named Sohn Bursht, first came upon the idea that by combining several different shades of boot polish, he could impart a more attractive shine to his patrons' shoes. One of his customers was a classically trained viola player named Bernarde Schultzhausen, who also happened to be a well-known luthier. Upon picking up his boots, Bernarde noticed a highly polished pair of boots on Sohns' rack, with a very unique patina. Bernarde hurried to his shop and immediately applied several selected dyes to an instrument awaiting final finishing. The customer arrived several weeks later to pick up his instrument, and was enthralled with the luthiers' work. When he asked the luthier the type of finish on his restored instrument, he responded with "Sohn Bursht', which became widely popular among the musicians of the time. The first instrument the finish was applied to was owned by none other than Anton Stradivarius! ------------------ |
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Stephen Gambrell Member From: Ware Shoals, South Carolina, USA |
posted 28 September 2002 09:00 AM
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Ya'll are all wrong. It was created when LLoyd Loar, the acoustics genius at Gibson in the early '20s, came in drunk one morning, and puked all over a mandolin he was building. This was the famous F-5 that was to wind up belonging to Bill Monroe, a teetotaler, who scraped the "sunburst" finish off, after he found out how it got there. At least, that's the way I heard it. |
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Peter Siegel Member From: Belmont, CA, USA |
posted 30 September 2002 04:44 PM
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No, no, no, it was invented at Sun Studios in Memphis TN, in 1951 by the legendary Sam Phillips. He was trying to combine the finishes favored by country musicians with that preferred by the black performers of the day. The sunburst starts light and ends up black. He later applied the same concept to recording music, and the rest is rockabilly history. |
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CrowBear Schmitt Member From: Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France |
posted 01 October 2002 12:31 AM
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yep ! it was Sam Phillips !  Keep on Rockin'Billy ------------------ [This message was edited by CrowBear Schmitt on 01 October 2002 at 12:32 AM.] |
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