The reason the early jazz band with banjo and guitar has never been, just because the guitars were not loud enough. But using new recording and amplification techniques, Eddie Lang played his guitar in the movie "The Big Broadcast of 1932" and banjo player immediately realized that guitar players would soon fill the chairs on stage. Pawnbroker soon be filled with banjo and guitar craft produces lush sound of high quality instruments that have been in greatQuestion.
The American Guitar Museum in New Hyde Park, Long Island has the best work of craftsmen who have poured their skills and love in this wonderful tool. The museum puts us in contact with both the history of the guitar and its future.
It is right that those responsible for the creation of this museum would not only be a guitar player and collector, but as he is affectionately called, "Doctor Guitar" Chris X. Ambadjes is one of the best guitar builders in theCompanies face with a guitar museum about 33 years ago that Chris is able to realize his dream of bringing about 16 years. Fortunately, Chris' friends, Demos Manolis, the great Wayne L. Wright and a few others were willing to make the museum a reality. The friends pool their resources and formed a board of directors there.
The American Museum guitar has a genuine charm. His house is a restored three-story buildings from the colonial period, which is one of the original farmhousesarea. Passing through the outer gate (which, incidentally, shaped like a guitar) and entering the front door, you can not do in the wake of images that seem to be everywhere. These are images of great players past and present years.
Go directly to the main room in front at eye level is a beautiful oval holes of purchase on loan from the New Yorker most talented player, Joe Carbone. Before his untimely death was compared to the luthier Jimmy D'PURCHASEmore luthiers alive. From this beautiful sun burst tool that would wait more than $ 50,000 a year 3, free of charge.
The main hall ceiling is certainly worth a look. It 's like the inside of an archtop guitar with f-holes have been drawn, painted and all the grain of the wood cross-reinforcement in the ceiling. A window to the front of the room contains some of the original lines to make attacks of 1910. These successes were part of the Company D'Andrea Long of Iceland, which has contributedalso in the business world today. If you have a recovery in your pocket, there is a 90% probability that the company did D'Andrea. The choices were initially made by punching small plates of turtle in various forms.
The museum is just chock full of guitar instruments makers, different tailpiece, books, maps, biographies of the various actors and the stories of some of the guitars line the walls. A piece not to miss sitting on the right side of the room. This is a release of 400 poundsStrad-o-Lin society in which the sides and tops of guitars and mandolins was bent. It dates back to 1890.
One of the oldest guitar museum was built in 1861 Ambadjes Chris says: "We, the children who come for a tour to say that this guitar from the time of Abraham Lincoln, and get a set piece like that." It 'exposed in its original hard shell.
Two guitars, which are always a lot of attention to the 1965 Olympic White Start that a friend of aJimi Hendrix, Jimi played the occasional eye-catcher and the other is a brand new dark wood grain Les Paul, Les, the museum has helped with the inscription "For Chris, Les 'Keep On Pickin'".
In addition to the signature Les Paul model, there are a number of Gibson estimated on the display. Some of the most important one Gibson was one of the best musicians in the New Yorker, Jack Hotop. Jack played at the opening of the Broadway hits as "Oklahoma" and"Annie". He fell in love with the sound of the early 1957 ES-175 (known more commonly known as humbuckers) with a PAF pickup. This guitar was used as a demonstrator model of Gibson and Jack Gibson has asked for the instrument. He was forced to wait until it has been shown throughout the country, before Gibson's get him. Jack then took advantage of this ES-175, when he played for the opening of "West Side Story."
Two of the most recent articles with the American Museum are a guitar pickup windingMachine, the jazz innovator Attila Zoller made and the mixing was used in the classic films of Woody Allen's "Radio Days".
What this museum prides itself on its superb collection of both rare and beautiful instruments - ". The cream of the crop" what Chris calls Ambadjes has a special love for the D'Angelico archtop guitar and who could blame him. John D'Angelico is considered by many to have been the "Stradivarius of the guitar." Appraisals place this guitar between $ 25,000 - $ 75,000 tothe average, some even higher. Quite an investment, if the desire to fulfill their original price of about $ 695.00!
How fitting it is started, the D'Angelico makes his guitar, in the same year as "The Big Broadcast of 1932". 1164 beautiful custom guitars and mandolins are built with his name since his death in 1964.
The museum has about 10 D'Angelico in the exhibition, two of which are "unique". Although it is fair to say all are unique D'Angelico,are all either guitar or mandolin, all except these two. Sitting properly is the cradle of the child, only the first of these acquisitions. There is a 18 "high uke jazz baby. Mortelle Benny asked John D'Angelico, to build this to use as a marriage proposal to his wife. The finger-board contains the inscription" To My Dearest Rose By Ben. "The latest addition to the museum as a wine cellar (Read: LAR). This is the greatest masterpiece of John D's, and is the onlyAnother tool that does not fall into the category of either guitar or mandolin. In addition to these two priceless pieces you will find Excel 1942, which was carried out by its owner Benny Aude, in the film "The Godfather" scene in both the marriage and on the soundtrack. In addition, the year 1946 is in New York. There is a left-handed D'Angelico, who was used by Wayne Wright (rhythm guitarist Les Paul, George Barnes, Judy Garland, Tony Bennett and Peggy Lee).
"Nothing in this lifefree "- is no longer true, because a guide is the only American Museum Guitar Free Guitar fans, school trips and families have mini-lectures on building guitar pickups work as a guitar, keyboard, and as in-puts added yes! a complete history of the most popular tool of the United States. Also note that Chris Ambadjes bothered repair tools of all kinds directly on the site and there are a number of excellent music teachers at the time, too.
Sun to make a visit to this smallHoney, where is the love of their owners around the world apparently. This is truly a gift to the world. It so happens that today in Long Island, New York had been wrapped.
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