STUDENT NEWSLETTER 10 July
2007 
I hope this letter finds you all happy, healthy, and in tune.
Here we are in The Summertime and the year is over half over. Less than six months till Christmas! Encourage someone you love to play music. If they start now they will be playing Christmas songs by Christmas.
There is only one music store in Dallas worth mentioning. Lowest prices, online shopping, free shipping on orders over $99, great return policy, best selection...
I am proud to announce my affiliation with
Guitar Center. Now you do not have to drive across town any more they will
bring your gear to your door. If you click thru to their site from mine I
get an advertising credit! Guitar Center and Musicians Friend are
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on the link from my website to go there. Thank You.
For a long time I have noticed that a new guitar is not as good as a twenty year old guitar. It takes that long for the wood to dry, season, stabilize, and develop that warm complex tone. That means 1987 or older is the way to go. My guitars made in the 1970s are even more impressive. I have a 1967 Martin that is so loud it drowns out other guitars. One of my oldest guitar is a 1930 Martin that is beat to death, but very loud and high quality tone. When students come in with new inexpensive guitars they ask why their guitar is so difficult to tune and keep in tune. The needle on the tuner wavers back and forth because the wood is not stable. That takes a long time. In the old days Martin and Gibson aged their wood. At one time Martin aged the sound board wood 75 years before making it into a guitar! Needless to say that does not happen today. Cheap guitars are made of new wood. The tree is cut down and shoved into a kiln to be speed dried. Then carved into a cheap guitar. The reason the needle moves around so much on the tuner when you are trying to tune is the wood is still green. The good part about this is the fact that twenty year old guitars cost the same or less than a new one. REMEMBER a guitar is only worth what it is worth used. Used guitars are the only way to go. The magic number for the age of a guitar is twenty five. That is when they become antiques and really go up in value. Twenty five years ago is 1982 believe it or not. If you are only going to invest $500 or less then you might as well go to Guitar Center and get a new guitar. But if you want a REAL guitar get one used. Guitars are made to last forever. There is nothing wrong with a used guitar. It is broken in and plays better than new guitars ever can. Compare new to used and you can hear the difference. You can feel the difference. Big difference.
Here is a very rare guitar on the way here from California. 1977 Gibson Les Paul Pro with ebony fingerboard and P-90 pickups! Black! Very cool axe.
Holy Cow Batman! Here last Friday from Georgia is Batman's guitar. A 100% original USA Gibson 1977 SG Deluxe Standard with rare factory double pickguards. Great condition. SUPER player. T-Tops! BLAAAAM! POW!!
Here last Tuesday from Ohio, is a 100% original electronics USA Gibson 1981 Les Paul Standard in rare tobacco sunburst finish. New frets. Tim Shaw humbuckers!!!!!
Here last week from Chicago, IL is a 100% original USA Gibson 1976 SG Deluxe in very rare tobacco sunburst finish. Super thin fast neck with low "fretless wonder" frets plays like a dream and sounds wonderful. You know how these Kalamazoos are. Fine.
Here last Friday is an extremely rare 1970 Gibson ES 150. Less than 278 were made that year in this color. Is that rare enough?
These are like the ES 335 but a true hollow body with much deeper sides. LIKE NEW MINT CONDITION! The back still reflects like a mirror! 37 year old time capsule.
The search for the perfect tone never ends. But after years of consideration, trial and error this is my rig more or less. It is not easy to find the original vintage stuff anymore, so this is the new equivalent.
Every bit of my new gear comes from MusiciansFriend.com or Guitar Center for the past eight years. Best prices, selection, and return policy there is. AND they bring it to your door! If you click thru to MUSICIANS FRIEND .com or Guitar Center.com from this web site to buy something, I get an advertising credit and it does not cost you a penny extra! Musicians Friend and Guitar Center is where I get all my new gear. Click on the bar below to go there. If the bar does not appear on your browser go here and click on the MusiciansFriend bar at bottom of that page.
Always Stay Tuned. A lot is going on around here!
Rock On,
Joe "TheGuitarman" Pacciano, C.G.P.
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