Hi All, I have a guitar which appears to be an L-48 with a 1937 (straight-bar) Charlie Christian pickup in it. It currently has Thomastik medium- gauge...
Checked today, and I find that the house has indeed been demolished and the site is clear except for "some steps." I'm sure members will forgive me if I say...
What a sad day and event considering some of the downright frivolous things
preserved as historic. ... From: CharlieChristian@yahoogroups.com Date: 09/15/05...
Too bad the government or the state couldn't have saved it.At least we have a great deal of Charlie's music preserved. ... What a sad day and event considering...
i was going through some old email, and found this from jan 05, from ... just picked up the new downbeat, with roland kirk on the cover. its a sort of...
... You mean "Guitarmen, Wake Up and Pluck!" Downbeat 1 (December 1, 1939). It was reprinted in the March 1982 Guitar Player magazine, and Peter also...
"spoodle0" <cosimini@b...> wrote: Check out E-bay under 'Charlie Christian pickup' Well - I did! Several things occur to me here. To name two of them. First...
Hi, In reply to your post: I have aquired many of these pickups over the years and all the mounting brackets have been brass. Some of them may not appear to ...
Hi folks: The CC biography by Wayne Goins and Craig McKinney is now available: http://mellenpress.com/mellenpress.cfm?bookid=6330&pc=9 Regards, - Garry...
Hi Garry , Would love to have a look at it . Did you see the USA List Price? : $129.95 ........... ouch Tom ... From: "garry_hansen" <garry_hansen@...> ...
... Yep. That's an academic press for ya. A little birdie told me that the cheapest place to buy it will eventually be through the Kansas State University...
"spoodle0" <cosimini@b...> wrote: By highlighting such a minor detail as the mounting brackets was to show the lengths that we have gone to and would hopefully...
"spoodle0" <cosimini@b...> wrote: Yes, the windings on the coils are identical to the originals. Interesting! Please tell me what the number of windings and...
I have given a full and detailed description on E-bay (which I have copied below), this gives all the revavant information without getting too anorakish about...
"spoodle0" <cosimini@b...> wrote: I have given a full and detailed description on E-bay (which I have copied below), this gives all the revavant information...
Just watched an episode of the Canadian Antiques Roadshow from St. John's NL and a young woman brought in her grandfather's EH-185 amp. It looked to be in...
Hi folks: The Canadian Antiques Roadshow episode with the EH185 was repeated and I captured it with my WinTV card in case anyone's interested. The 30 mb mpeg...
Does anyone know how to contact Kent Armstrong directly? I am interested in having him make me a custom CC pickup to fit into a humbucker mount (like the one...
Kent lives in Grafton Vermont .....give information a call ? Good Luck Tom ... From: "emuchka" <emuchka@...> To: <CharlieChristian@yahoogroups.com> ...
... Hi folks: Word has it that A Biography of Charlie Christian: Jazz Guitar's King of Swing is available from Claflin Books in Manhattan, Kansas for $75 USD....
