Guitars: What is so amazingly special about 1959 Les Pauls?
There's damn all of them about, and a lot of idiots who want to own one!My cousin works for a major rare guitar dealer, frequently flying around the world escorting five- and six-figure instruments to new owners, and so has actually had the chance to play a few as they've passed through the shop. His verdict - when they're good, they're amazing; when they're bad, they're an investment!Supposedly it's the mix of the timber and the PAF pickups, but there's massive variation in both; hardly surprising since they were still handmade instruments at the time. There's slight variations in neck and body sizes and shapes, particularly the necks as they were sanded from rough blanks. Nothing major - 1/8 inch thicker or thinner - but enough to feel different. Similarly, the pickups were supposedly hand-wound to a certain number of turns of copper, but if someone wasn't paying attention, pickups got over-wound and hot! And since a humbucker uses two coils, there was no guarantee that those coils would be evenly matched, creating different cancellation in each unit. Also the original design specified AlNiCo 4 magnets, but Gibson would use whatever variety of magnet was in stock to avoid slowing production!The other thing to remember is that most of the famous players who used them and created the myth of the "59" (Page, Green, Clapton, Jeff Beck) didn't buy them because they were legendary instruments - they bought them because they were cheap workhorses! The things were a sales disaster, much like the famous Flying Vs that got hung outside as shop signs. Even thought production stopped in 1960, shops were still trying to shift them in 1962. Import taxes in the UK meant that most new guitarists couldn't afford a top quality guitar - the average wage was around £15 p/w and a new Strat was £120! IIRC, each of the four I mentioned picked their guitars up second-hand in the States for very little, on tours when they were still unknowns. It's what they did with them that has made them almost priceless.
Would you go to a guitar shop to install a pickup for your guitar without knowing a fixed price?
Other answers are correct that the labor required to install a pickup will vary with a few things, in particular the basic nature of the guitar (for example, semi-hollows are notoriously a PITA to work with, obviously split-coil pickups have more wires to connect than non-splits). But as soon as the tech has those basic parameters, this should immediately fall into the “done this 1000 times” category.So if he or she can’t say with 99% confidence that “this job will take me x minutes and will thus cost you $y”, I’d be concerned that he or she doesn’t have experience working on this particular type of guitar. And do you want to be the first guitar of that type that your tech ever installs pickups on?Since these are issues that can basically be confirmed by phone, in the literal sense of whether I would physically go to a guitar shop for pickup installation without a fixed price, no, it likely should never come to that.Quick story, though… I did take a guitar once to a tech whom I had mostly used for amp work before, though he had done a couple simple guitar jobs as well. I did get a fixed price, but also this was his first semi-hollow job (i.e., my guitar was the guinea pig I suggested above that you never want to be). He discovered, of course, that it was a major pain and it took him about five times longer than he expected. To his credit, he stuck to his initial estimate, and learned his lesson without charging me extra. Which just proves my point: a concrete, up-front price always works in your favor.FWIW I’m only talking about pickup replacement here; my answer would be exactly the opposite if you were asking about setups. If a tech is absolutely confident that a setup will only take a specific amount of time, he or she isn’t considering all the possible things that could come up. Setups IMO should always be quoted as a base (truss and intonation adjustment) plus an hourly rate after that (for fret work, nut and bridge adjustment, etc.).
Does anyone know the classical guitar piece in Dawn of the Dead (1978)?
I think that is called "Risveglio" and it's by the band Goblin. They did all kinds of little pieces for the film, some of which aren't listed specifically in the soundtrack. But I remember that scene and that clip seems to match.
Name of guitar piece in Cheaper by the Dozen?
Hope it helps! :]] 10,000 Maniacs ~ These are Days Len ~ People Come Together Mr. Cheeks ~ Back Again Tom Cochran ~ Life is a Highway Slum Village ~ Conant Gardens Simple Plan ~ I'm Just a Kid Sahara Hotnights ~ Alright, Alright Lea Longo ~ Someone Like Me Fountains of Wayne ~ Help David Usher ~ Surfacing Yerba Buena ~ Guajira (I Love U 2 Much) Sum 41 ~ In Too Deep Orchestre symphonique de Montreal ~ Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi: 'O Fortuna' from Carmina Burana Mason Williams ~ Classical Gas (Instrumental) Brenda Lee ~ Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree Jackson 5 ~ Rockin' Robin Hilary Duff ~ What Christmas Should Be
Do iron-on t-shirt designs work on knitted fabric?
You could use a stencil and fabric paint--that's probably the least expensive method. To answer your question, though, iron-on transfers do work on cotton or cotton-blend jersey, which is the knitted fabric from which most T-shirts are made. Embroidery is also a possibility. If you have access to an embroider machine, give that a try. Or get in touch with whatever company in your town has commercial embroidery machines for putting logos on team shirts, hats, and such. You might be able to talk them into doing a dozen or so at a reasonable price. If you're doing this plan for a project and are not really going to put it into action, why not plan around the price per pair of the 300-400 minimum requirement from the company you found, if the price per pair is reasonable?
What are some Hindi songs with great guitar solos?
Well, These are few hindi songs having some good guitar tunes in background.1. Dil Dhadakne do. (ZNMD)2. Rock On3. Kyon (All the best)4. Aahatein (Ek main ur ek tu)5. Aas pas khuda (Anjaana anjaani, Listen the starting and middle tune of guitar.)6. Addicted (Enrique iglesias, not hindi one)7. Beparwah (Baby)8. Bhula dena (Aashiqui2)9. Chahun main ya na (Aashiqui2)10. Jiya re (Jonita Gandhi)11. Jo bhi main (Rockstar)12. Sadda haq (Rockstar)13. Nadan parindey (Rockstar)14. Kaha hai khuda15. Khaabon ke Parindey (ZNMD)16. Khuda hai tere andar (Ghayal 2)17. Khwaishein (Calendar girl)18. Kurbaan hua (Kurbaan)19. Milne hai mujhse aayi (Aashiqui2)20. Raahi Raahi (Mumbai delhi mumbai)21. Sau Aasoon (Katti Batti)22. Shukr tera (Samrat and co.)23. Somebody s me (Enrique Iglesias)24. Sun raha hai (Aashiqui2)25. Tere binaa (Heropanti)26. Tu milade (All is well)27. Wish You were here28. Yaara re (Roy)29. Yahin hoon main30. Yeh tumhari meri baatien (Rock On)31. Pichle sat dino mein (Rock On)32. Tum ho (Rock On)Who says Bollywood music isn't that good, Just listen all these songs, You will find some amazing guitar tunes. :)) Thank you.
Viva Pinata!!!! How do I make sparrowmints mate!?
Both of your sparrowmints have to have hearts above their heads. If you have that, then you don't need to feed any more whirlms or candy. Check your garden and see if it is full. Your garden has a limit on pinatas that can live there, and if you've run out of room you can't breed more pets yet. Sometimes the door to your pinatas' houses can get blocked. Check to see if some piece of junk is getting in the way of your birds. If your pinatas aren't happy, they won't mate either. Check their happiness meters and see how they are. If they're not happy, feed them some regular candy. Sparrowmints actually like to be watered with your watering can, so you can get a few points of happiness that way (in some versions, anyway). Check in your garden notebook thing and see if all of your sparrowmints' requirements are met. It's easy to think you did something on the list, but you missed it by mistake. This is especially true if you have more than two birds, feed some of them worms, and then the ones you fed leave the garden (sold, eaten, whatever). If none of these things fixes the problem, you have a glitch. Sell off your birds and go back to trying to get new ones to come in. Sometimes selling your animal's house and buying it again will fix this kind of thing too.