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All you guys are doing are reinforcing my point about guitarists being too traditionalist.

 

The Fender Stratocaster and Telecaster were invented in the 1950s, and those original designs are still being used on those guitars today. There's a reason for that. When you get it right, there's no reason to mess with it. Being a traditionalist is not a bad thing.

 

Right, and I don't think there's any of us here who would turn our nose up at innovation if the end result was a marked improvement in tone and/or playability, but that doesn't seem to be the case here -- this guitar is mostly about a particular aesthetic that fraroc likes.

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All you guys are doing are reinforcing my point about guitarists being too traditionalist.

 

The Fender Stratocaster and Telecaster were invented in the 1950s, and those original designs are still being used on those guitars today. There's a reason for that. When you get it right, there's no reason to mess with it. Being a traditionalist is not a bad thing.

 

Right, and I don't think there's any of us here who would turn our nose up at innovation if the end result was a marked improvement in tone and/or playability, but that doesn't seem to be the case here -- this guitar is mostly about a particular aesthetic that fraroc likes.

 

And there's nothing wrong with that. Nothing wrong with innovation, or trying to improve on a tried-and-true standard. But in the case of guitars, there just isn't much room for improvement. Leo Fender and Les Paul already got it right. Modern things like locking tuners, better trem bridges, new pickup designs -- all good stuff, but they're nothing drastic when compared to the original designs. Robot tuners, built-in distortion circuits or MIDI interfaces, space-age designs like the Gittler, they're more gimmicky and aren't going to be standard on guitars fifty years from now.

 

None of us have a problem with fraroc liking the Gittler. If that's the guitar for him, then cool. I can certainly appreciate the concept of its minimalist non-traditional design, if only from a novelty standpoint. But to badmouth traditional instruments and the people who like them doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

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All you guys are doing are reinforcing my point about guitarists being too traditionalist.

 

I'm certainly not......leave aside it's looks which I don't personally care for.

 

If this thing had the greatest tone since sliced bread, then I could understand wanting one...however there is no evidence in the video to suggest that it does...the fact that this was a sales video which clearly avoids a vital aspect of the instrument makes me think it may not be special in that department and it is purely about cosmetics.

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to provide another analogy...you could have the most attractive woman in bed with you, but if she's as enthusiastic as a dead fish, it doesn't matter.

 

someday, i might be able to be faced with this dilemma

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to provide another analogy...you could have the most attractive woman in bed with you, but if she's as enthusiastic as a dead fish, it doesn't matter.

 

someday, i might be able to be faced with this dilemma

 

Dead fish are pretty easy to obtain, man.

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Not my cup of tea tbh, but here is someone actually playing one:

 

Sounds great at 1:25!

 

I suppose I'd be considered a 'traditionalist'. I play a Squier Vintage modified 70's strat through a Fender 68 custom deluxe reverb.

 

Now, regarding the Gittler guitar - lower the asking price (by several thousand dollars) and make it a double neck (12 string top, 6 string lower) as I doubt the second neck would add much weight.

 

If I was in the market for a small guitar with no head stock I'd buy a Lazer. Good enough for Johnny Winter.

http://www.erlewineguitars.com/pgs/lazer.htm

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It just doesn't seem to bring anything to the table for the extra cost.

 

At my gig this weekend one of the guitarists brought a MIM P-Bass with passive EMG pickups and asked me to try it out for a song or two to see if it was worth the $300 got it for. The thing played and sounded perfect, so I used it for the whole gig. It made me realize that the only difference between a good $300 bass and a $6000 "designer" bass was ego.

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