October 24th, 2009 §
The last time an original left handed Explorer guitar was readily available was over 25 years ago – in the mid 1980′s.
None of the three major guitar manufacturers who make this guitar today (Gibson/Epiphone, Hamer, Dean) make a left handed Explorer. Gibson no longer makes left handed Explorers even in their Custom Shop! So no amount of money today will get you a new “original.”
The Gaskell Classic is similar to but not the same as the Gibson/Hamer/Dean Explorers. Redesigned in Australia, it incorporates a slightly smaller, evenly weighted body with a correct centre of gravity, making it more comfortable, more playable, and timelessly stylish. Equipped with a set “60′s neck” (different from the original), the Gaskell Classic enables you to easily manage complex chording as well as being able to easily lead up and down the fret board. Unlike it’s inspiration, the Classic is controlled by one volume and two tone controls.
Like all Gaskell guitars, this guitar is always fully finished and set up Sydney, Australia or San Diego, USA. The Gaskell Classic is a professional quality instrument suitable for any style of music including Pop, Blues, Country, Jazz, Funk, Rock, Metal, etc.
If you ever dreamed of owning and playing a guitar like this, then now that dream is a reality!
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:
Model: Classic (GCV-1)
Pickups: 2 x humbuckers
Controls: 1 x Master Volume 2 x Tone 3-way selector
Bridge: “Nashville” Tun-O-Matic
Hardware: Chrome metal
Scale: 24.75″
Frets: 22
Body wood: Basswood
Neck: Maple – SET
Fretboard: Rosewood – dot inlays
Strings: 010 – 046
October 22nd, 2009 §
Left Hand guitar players the world over have always had a problem with availability of left handed guitars.
Many left handed people newly learning to play guitar end up learning to play right handed out of frustration. Many experienced left handed guitarists have simply become apathetic and given up looking for that which is abundant for right handed players. Not only is there a limited range of guitars, but the resources for learning are also pretty limited. This situation is the same in every country in the world.
It is not hard to understand. Of the world’s population, left handed people are a minority compared to right handed people. Within this minority there is a further minority of left handed people who play guitar left handed. Despite the small percentage of left handed guitarists, there have been a number of iconic left handed players who have made a huge impact on the music scene. These include Jimi Hendrix, Paul McCartney, Tony Iommi, and Kurt Cobain.
Many of the big guitar manufacturers do not offer left hand versions of some of their popular guitars. to be fair, US guitar manufacturers, have been facing harder and harder times, year after year. We all know that ALL industry (that is trying to do the right thing and being honest) is suffering and this is proportional to the decline of education (kids can’t learn, can’t hold jobs), the rise of drugs (thank you psychiatrists for getting rich by doping a whole generation into a state of useless-ness while brainwashing parents into believing frying kids brains with drugs is good) and increase of social hardship due to the world economic crash that’s going on (thanks Oil companies, banks, and government suppression) So it is tough for all.
Some guitar manufacturers offer left handed versions of their guitars through their Custom Shop. And although this is an attempt at service, the costs and waiting times can be quite painful.
Well, not any more! GASKELL GUITARS is a small Australian guitar manufacturer that makes only left hand guitars. Gaskell guitars are high quality, yet affordable instruments, that can be gigged with as they are or further upgraded or modified and still come in well under the cost of a custom shop order for the same kind of instrument!
Being situated at the “bottom of the world” and to some degree away from the noise of the collapse happening in other continents, we are able to operate intelligently and with focus on producing well-made, high quality left handed guitars that are not available as left hand models by original manufacturers.
Go to : http://www.gaskellguitars.com
You will find left handed guitars that you have not seen before in left hand and probably never thought you would! Some dreams do become reality.
October 22nd, 2009 §
We all know that there are less left handed people than right handed people in the world. Analysts calculate that 1 in 10 human beings are left-handed. This means the total amount of left handers living in the world is over 600 million. According to Scientific estimates, there will be a billion left-handed people living on planet Earth by 2020. Another interesting fact is that the number of left handed people born in 2005 were double those born in 1990.
So while the left handed population appears to be multiplying as time rolls on, there is a contrast of trend happening in another area: availability of left handed musical instruments, specifically left handed guitars. This is not new News. Left Hand guitars have always been in short supply, but to be fair, many major manufacturers have tried to accommodate left handed players by providing at least a basic range of lefty guitars. Probably if there had never been a Kurt Cobain, or a Paul McCartney or a Jimi Hendrix, everyone today would be playing right handed guitar regardless of what hand they used to write with!
However, there is a real DANGER occurring here. A recent survey of left handed school children concerning left handed guitars showed a staggering group view that playing left handed guitar was “too hard” or “not worth the trouble” and hence out of defeat, the majority of these children feel obliged to deny their left handedness and start learning to play guitar like “everyone else.” I suspect that these survey results probably do not differ from survey results that might have been obtained in the 1990s, or 1970s or 1960s. Strangely, the 1980′s was the only era when there appeared to be a “better selection” of left handed guitars than prior and recent times. For example, the last time the Gibson Explorer was made in left hand was in the mid 1980′s. It has never been available as a production left handed model since.
Left Handed guitarists wanting an Explorer guitar do have a new choice: Gaskell Guitars, the only left handed guitar manufacturer on the planet that makes left handed guitars in the models that are not available in left hand elsewhere. The Gaskell “Classic” is an Explorer-esque left handed guitar, easily available, from Gaskell Guitars in Australia. Gaskell Guitars are becoming popular in Europe and USA in addition to Australia and New Zealand. Let’s not go into agreement with left handed guitarists becoming a “dying race.”
Gaskell Guitars is a guitar manufacturer in Australia that makes only left handed guitars, fast becoming known all round the world
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October 21st, 2009 §
There is something timeless about Gibson guitars.
They have been around for a million years it seems and they have been responsible for some of the most innovative guitar designs ever to appear.
The humbucking pickup is a Gibson design. Who could imagine life in the 21st Century without humbucking pickups for guitars? You couldn’t! That would be a nightmare reality! There goes “Rock” music. We’d all be playing and listening to … I don’t know!
There is a passion behind Gibson guitars that is very admirable and commendable. That passion has been there for many, many decades! We the user have received and created JOY with a Gibson in our hands and our creativity in full bloom. Many generations of great song writers, and guitar players have been and gone. The Gibson name has stayed througout time. Why? Because they are great guitars!
At GASKELL Guitars we manufacturer exclusively left handed guitars. Our mainstay model is based on the 1958 Gibson Explorer. This is a wonderful guitar, ahead of it’s time when it was designed, and to this day is a popular “extreme shape” guitar with many artists such as James Hetfield (Metallica), The Edge (U2), Gary Moore, and more. In the 1980s and 1990s just about every guitarist seemed to played Explorers or Explorers made by other guitar manufacturers such as The Police, Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Kiss, U2, Metallica, Rick Nielsen, ZZ Top, Lynard Skynard, Gary Moore, and more!
The modern day Explorer is not made in left hand by Gibson or their subsidiary, Epiphone.
A left handed version is made by GASKELL GUITARS.
Other guitar manufacturers who have been inspired by this masterpiece of music instrumentation are Hamer (theirs is called the Hamer “Standard” and doesn’t have the pickguard), Dean Guitars (make an impressive range of colours for their version), Jackson Guitars (Jackson’s is called the “Kelly” and is a little different from the Explorer but is still visibly Explorer derived.) Other companies have made clones of the Explorer such as Tokai, Stagg, Aria, and in the past Ibanez, ESP and Peavey to name a few.
None of these companies listed above as far as we know make their variant Explorers in left hand without going the “custom shop” option which usually results in a pay out of around $4000 and possibly more than a year waiting time.
The Explorer guitar is really a master piece.
Left Handed guitarists can play one now, via Gaskell Guitars, and experience first hand the pleasure of such a fabulous instrument.
Gibson is a musical instrument company that has stood the test of time because of innovative and dedicated passion towards the music industry and guitar players and we here at Gaskell Guitars would like to tip our hats in honour of the legend that we have had some fortune to partially benefit from by way of the left handed Explorer style guitar we manufacture to fill that gap in the market.
EXPLORERS are great guitars. Left handed guitarists can now enjoy the greatness of them via Gaskell Guitars!
October 20th, 2009 §
Gaskell Guitars is a guitar manufacturer in Sydney, Australia that makes only left handed guitars
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January 18th, 2009 §
¿Cuándo fue la primera guitarra de la izquierda entregó presentado al público?
He buscado por toda la Internet para averiguar pero se quedó sin nada. Sé que a través de Jimi Hendrix la vida no había guitarra zurda en el mercado, de modo que deja fuera a 70 y anteriores. Pero ¿cuándo fue la primera guitarra de la mano izquierda presenta y donde sabes que esto?
Pablo McCartney introdujo la guitarra zurda en 1957, para su concierto. Y más tarde fue invitado a unirse a los Beatles! Espero que esta ayuda:)
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Kurt Cobain ‘Left Handed’ black t-shirt
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SX RST 3/4 LH BK Left Handed Short Scale Guitar Package with Amp, Carry Bag and Instructional DVD
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The body is cont…
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January 10th, 2009 §
The History of Ibanez Guitars
Ibanez is probably the most well known of all the Japanese guitar makers. The company was founded in Nagoya, Japan in 1957 as a subsidiary of Hoshino Gakki, a Japanese musical instrument importer which started the Ibanez brand to make its own models.
Ibanez originally made copies of American designs. Early models in the range included the 2364, a copy of the renowned Ampeg Dan Armstrong guitar made of clear plastic, the 2347, a Gibson SG/Les Paul Junior copy, the 2351, which looked very like a Gibson Les Paul, and the 2348, a nearly-exact copy of a non-reverse Gibson Firebird shape. These very well-executed copies could easily be passed off as the real thing, and this led to Gibson suing the company for copyright infringement in 1977. Strangely, the lawsuit was not directed at Ibanez’s blatant copies of the body shapes of Gibson guitars, but at the headstock design. The case was settled out of court in 1978 and Ibanez introduced its own designs.
Some of these designs were the Destroyer, a Gibson Explorer-like shape with new parts added to the shape and the introduction of Ibanez’s classic pointed headstock, the Artist, a more traditional shape with two short cutaways of equal size and an altered headstock to avoid any further legal trouble, the Rocket Roll, a copy of a Gibson Flying V, but with Ibanez’s pointed headstock and no scratchplate, and the Iceman. This guitar had a unique and very unusual shape. It resembles a Gibson Explorer with a cut-down left-hand side, a strange notch on the bottom and a large extra cutaway on the right-hand horn allowing access to higher frets. The Destroyer was originally available with two or three humbucking pickups, the Artist with two humbuckers only, and the Iceman with two humbuckers or an Ibanez-designed pickup with three coils. The Iceman and Artist models are still in Ibanez’s range as of 2008.
The 1980s saw yet more improvements to the Ibanez range which would add to their increasing status. The company became a pioneer and chief exponent of the superstrat, a style still popular today. A superstrat is a Fender Stratocaster-style shape, but made to be used by heavy metal guitarists. It was not only Ibanez who developed this style. Companies such as Jackson and Charvel also contributed with the Soloist and Spectrum respectively. Visually, a superstrat is a Stratocaster, normally with no scratchplate, longer, pointed horns and deeper cutaways. Normally the guitars had 24-fret necks, Floyd Rose tremolo systems and three pickups (usually a humbucker at the neck position, single coil in the middle and humbucker at the bridge, although some had different layouts).
The main guitar in Ibanez’s superstrat range is the RG. This guitar was introduced in 1985 and was later joined by the Saber, with much the same shape, but less pointed horns and a very thin body, probably the thinnest of any production guitar. In the late 1980s Ibanez collaborated with supremely talented guitarist Steve Vai, whose CV now includes Whitesnake, David Lee Roth’s solo band and his own solo work. He had lost his favoured customised Charvel guitar, which had been stolen, so he now needed a new guitar. He and Ibanez came up with a superstrat design with 24 frets, the aforementioned pickup configuration and a grab handle on the body known by Vai as the Monkey Grip. He and Ibanez also designed a seven-string guitar, the Universe.
Other artists Ibanez have worked with and released signature models for include Paul Gilbert, with his PGM signature models (at the time of writing Gilbert has just designed a new model, an Iceman with a reversed body and extra cutaway), Joe Satriani, with the JS signature, Herman Li and Sam Totman, guitarists for extreme power metal band DragonForce, with the E-Gen and STM models respectively, and Munky, guitarist for metal band KoRN, with his Apex signature.
About the Author
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November 30th, 2008 §
Tengo una estudiante SX guitarra acústica guitarra y me preguntaba si puedo comprar cuerdas Gibson que suene mejor?
Yo no soy más que tocar la guitarra poco más de un año y estoy autodidacta por lo que este es el sitio web que estoy pensando sacarlos http://waltons.ie/Product/Search.aspx?cid=361&mid=115&page=1 no sé cuáles tengo que conseguir?? y lo que es un indicador?? Esta es mi guitarra http://waltons.ie/Product/View.aspx?id=11094&cid=61
hola,,, en todo lo real bajo el sol,, sólo hay unos pocos fabricantes de cuerdas,, son todos iguales, menos los detalles de bronce, latón,, níquel, hierro,,, esas son las cosas que usted tal vez desee prestar atención a,, no el nombre en el envase,,, el bronce es más oscuro,,, latón es más ligero cadenas de tonos n tiene mucho que ver con la sensación y el tono,,,, las cadenas de grasa, de acción de alto, son los mejor que yo como me gusta la sostenibilidad y la profundidad,,, aunque es mucho más fácil jugar encendedores y cerca de la derecha de jugar más rápido (todo viene con la práctica ),,,,,,,,,,,, plana liquidación, disolución redondas,, la tensión, el tono,,, buena voluntad, jeje,,, todo se juega en partes lo que se expresa ,,,,,,,,, eres nuevo en esto? ,,, Entonces el tiempo es su compañero, y si puedo dar a usted el tiempo para los ensayos y se equivocan,, búsqueda y destrucción,,,, es mi placer y ,,,,,, un codazo en el tuyo es demasiado ,,,,,: ):) Phlip
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Acoustic Guitar Stage DJ Club Hawaiian Shirt
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October 16th, 2008 §
Es mejor jugar zurdo guitarra es si su mano dominante me fui?
Sólo quiero saber si una persona zurda whould se adaptan mejor a la guitarra zurda más guitarra derecha
Es mejor jugar con su mano dominante en el mástil, por lo que el ser zurdo iba a tocar una guitarra.
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Left Hand Bass Techniques
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10 of today’s most influential bass players come together on this DVD: James Jamerson Jr., Louis Johnson, Abe Laboriel, Nathan East, Chuck Rainey, Freddie Washington, Verdine White, Larry Graham, Byron Miller and Neil Stubenaus. This DVD looks at left han…
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Guitar Now! Vol. 1
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Daisy Rock Pixie Acoustic Powder Pink Left Handed Starter Guitar Pack
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Mel Bay Left-Hand Guitar Chord Chart
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September 9th, 2008 §
¿Debo tocar la guitarra para zurdos diestros ot?
Soy zurdo, y quiero aprender a tocar la guitarra. He intentado jugar diestro antes, pero nunca atascado de la misma. El problema es que se siente más natural para mantener el diestro guitarra, pero yo soy capaz de recoger mucho más rápido, con precisión y zurdos. Además, si usted sugiere zurdo, ¿podría también sugieren una guitarra para zurdos buena y barata?
Puesto que usted está en un punto transistional y naturalmente zurdo, yo diría que van zurdo. Muchos de los grandes eran zurdos. (Hendrix, Clapton, Elliot Easton, el rey Alberto, Tony Iommi, etc), Usted tendrá algunos problemas para encontrar los instrumentos, pero creo que encontrará jugando zurdo ofrecerá más retos y variantes creativas. Es un reto contigo y con los retos, ganar fuerza en ser único. A veces es importante no siempre siguen a la manada, sino a ti mismo en la toma de estas decisiones que se espera se quede con usted por la vida. Dices que tu mano es mejor elegir con más control al zurdo. Gran parte de su unidad de control y rítmica viene de la mano de recolección, y eso es realmente vital. Creo que usted se sienta más cómodo en la explotación del instrumento y ponga la mano inquieta coordinada con la práctica y el tiempo … eso es realmente donde usted toma el control de su futuro musical y lo que pueden ofrecer. Fender ha mexi muchos modelos en zurdo para tal upcharge leve. Me gustaría ir con un comienzo zurdo mexicano o en tele. Otras compañías están BC Rich, Dean, Dillion, Epiphone, Gibson, Jackson, etc