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Evertune
Fishman Fluence pickups too, but evertune is even more significant IMO because it alters a core characteristic/limitation of the instrument in a way nothing else ever has until now
I wish modern guitar manufacturers would stop persisting with the race to be the most faithful and true historic replica. Bores me senseless. C’mon, the LP was soooooo good in 1960, that Gibson couldn’t even give them away, and had to stop production for 10 years. Was it only when Eric Clapton with an old unloved LP joined John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and made the ‘Beano’ album that the Les Paul kicked off again? I’m thinking that the Les Paul is to guitars what Status Quo is to modern music.
Sport and art aren’t the same thing. You’d be at a huge disadvantage to use vintage equipment in sports but for making music the character of something vintage could still be preferable and in theory can still be used to create something new
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or maybe the fan fret thing [but I've no idea when that first appeared..
Yep - more than half of all the (electric) guitars in the world are based on their original designs.
If you were designing a guitar from the ground up, knowing what we know now, would you come up with anything even close to a Les Paul? It has some real problems from an ergonomic and structural point of view.
Or is it more likely that these designs are just what we're used to?
It is true that Leo Fender had a big advantage in that he was - at least for the Tele, which the Strat is an evolution of - designing from the ground up... and even more in that he wasn't actually a guitarist, so he may have had far less preconceptions.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein