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Fender Launches American Vintage Series, Blacktop Basses, Mustang
Fender’s American Vintage ’69 Telecaster Thinline has a semi-hollow mahogany body with f hole and gloss lacquer finish, C-shaped maple neck, maple fingerboard, single-coil pickups with three-position switching, vintage-style three-saddle string-through bridge, “top hat” switch tip, and vintage-style F-stamped tuners. The American Vintage ’72 Telecaster Custom has a solid ash body with gloss lacquer finish,
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Boss Intros BC-2 and FB-2 pedals
The Boss BC-2 Combo Drive overdrive/distortion category offers three voices that can be dialed in with the pedal’s Sound, Bass, and Treble controls, while the Level controls overall effect volume. Boss’ FB-2 Feedbacker/Booster combines an adjustable tone/gain boost with the ability to engage feedback on-demand. It has controls for Boost, Level, and Tone, and a
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Fat Metals Strings
Fat Metals strings are made with hand-operated winders, with a Tuned Core Process (TCP) where operators listen to every string as it is made. They are shipped in wood boxes with moisture-sealed packaging to prevent tarnish. Each has a label to identify gauge and alloy. For more, visit professorstring.com.
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Akai Analog Custom Shop Issues 10 Pedals
Akai’s Analog Custom Shop line includes 10 guitar pedals: Phase Shifter, Analog Delay, Blues Overdrive, Chorus, Compressor, Drive3 Overdrive, Deluxe Distortion, Flanger, Drive3Fuzz, and Drive3Distortion. See them at analogcustomshop.
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Team Josie Raises Funds for Cancer society
Team Josie, an American Cancer Society Relay for Life team sponsored by Vintage Guitar, this year raised $6,500, bringing its four-year total to $32,000. Team Josie was named in memory of Josie Alise Greenwood, who died in April, 2007, after being diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (A.L.L.). She was the daughter of VG webmaster Joe
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Atkins Family Makes Paul Yandell Last “C.G.P.”
Chet Atkins coined the term “Certified Guitar Player” to describe an artist who personified the ultimate in performance skill and musical quality. Atkins personally bestowed the C.G.P. title on only four guitarists: Tommy Emmanuel, John Knowles, the late Jerry Reed, and Steve Wariner. In an August 13 program to mark the opening of the “Chet
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Fano Builds Guitars for Project Blues
Fano Guitars presented two custom Alt de Facto PX6 guitars to Project Blues, an Ohio-based nonprofit that uses the healing power of blues music to raise funds for cancer patients without financial resources. The organization will hold its First Annual Blues Bash on Sunday, September 11, at the Bluestone, in Columbus. The event features leading blues artists
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Lace Intros Stonewashed Alumitone Humbucker
The Lace Stonewashed Alumitone humbucker has a worn satin-black finisih with well worn edges. See it lacemusic.com.
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David “Honeyboy” Edwards Passes
David “Honeyboy”Edwards passed away at his home in Chicago on August 29. He was 96. Often cited as the “last link” between post-war blues and the current generation of players, Edwards was born in Mississippi and learned to play guitar as a child; his mother played the guitar, while his father, a fiddler and guitarist, performed
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Gretsch Sponsors Chet Atkins Exhibit
On August 12, the Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum unveiled an exhibit titled Chet Atkin: Certified Guitar Player, which pays tribute to the legendary guitar artist. The Gretsch Company is the title sponsor for the exhibit; Atkins helped design and popularize several Gretsch models that are still best-sellers today. Prior to the opening, the Hall
