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Warning: No loop content follows, aside from the distant connection to other loop artists playing similar instruments. Total guitar geekiness is all you'll find here: At 7:46 AM -0400 5/29/97, Jon Durant wrote: >Hey Kim, you got a Klein???? > >Way to go. Just got mine as well. My brother Kingsley and I will be >playing at Yeah, I didn't want to come on the list, jumping around like a little kid saying "I got a Klein, I got a Klein!" But since you just did, heck I'll join in..... I first played one at summer NAMM 2 years ago. I was just blown away. You pick up the guitar and it just sort of melts into your body, leaving your hands exactly where they should be. It's so comfortable and easy to play, its just amazing. And the tone.....the harmonic content is like nothing I've ever heard. It's just so rich. And the sustain is so good you hardly need a sustainer pickup. I can play chords right up to the 24th fret on mine and it just rings out perfectly. I got mine with the resonator cavity, swamp ash body, Guatemalan Rosewood neck (single piece, no fretboard), transtrem, and two Joseph Barden humbuckers with a Barden single coil in between. I custom designed the electronics for myself, based around this monster 4 pole 5 position switch and three push-pull knobs. (the knobs are vol/vol/tone) I've got 20 combinations between coil splitting, phase, and pickup selection, plus all the variations from tone/volume changes. I picked out the wood myself, (well with Lorenzo's help) which was fun. Klein is in a barn in Sonoma, in the California wine country. Spending a day hanging around on the Klein farm picking out guitar wood and puttering around Sonoma is a day well spent! The neck piece is really something. If you balance it at the 12th fret and tap on it, it rings out like a marimba or something. The guitar is really light, which the right thing to do for harmonics and sustain. And the grain across the top and fretboard is great and very beautiful. Through the triaxis/2:90, this guitar sounds incredible. My girlfriend designed the paint scheme, a transparent purple wash that fades between bluish purple and reddish purple. All the cool grain patterns are visible under it, and it's really quite stunning. This is why it took 10 months to build mine, since Lorenzo had to go through 3 painters before he found a guy that could do it! He nailed it too. The only down side of all this was that all the customizing resulted in me winning the prize for "most expensive klein Lorenzo has ever sold." My wallet still hurts. But I'll be playing this for a long time, so its totally worth it. Sell your car and buy a Klein. Your not gonna want to leave the house after you get it anyway..... kim >Any guitarists out there in loop land owe it to themselves to check out >these >guitars. I know they look odd and cost a bunch o' money, but I have to >tell you >that I've never played anything that felt and sounded so good. It's >literally >changed my life: where previously I'd pick up the guitar once every few >days to >play because I needed to practice, I now pick it every time I'm waiting >for a >large document to print, or when I know I'm going to be on a long phone >call--just to work my fingers. And the sound. Wow. I can't believe I've >replaced >the rootbeeer guitar (my PRS of the last five years, 2 records) but I have >without regret. (Sorry, Bonni...) > >Later, >Jon Durant ______________________________________________________________________ Kim Flint | Looper's Delight kflint@annihilist.com | http://www.annihilist.com/loop/loop.html http://www.annihilist.com/ | Loopers-Delight-request@annihilist.com