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Re: OT: Update on my mini jazz archtop guitar ("The Little Mammoth")



Kris,

This guitar sounds very good - congratulations! (nice music too in that 
clip)

-- 
Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.boysen.se (Swedish)
www.looproom.com (international)
www.myspace.com/perboysen



On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 5:05 AM, Krispen Hartung <khartung@cableone.net> 
wrote:
> Here are the first live clips from The Little Mammoth:
>
> Krispen Hartung, Brian McFadin, & Jared Hallock
> BEMF - Sunday -  http://www.box.net/shared/13edevpws4
>
> I'll have more later, plus  more pictures of the instrument.
>
> Kris
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>>
>> Interesting! Small hollow-body guitars are nice. I have played the
>> Ibanez Georg Benson model a lot and think it's awesome. This was an
>> old post of Kris' pen that bounced back into the loop - will you post
>> a follow up? How does the Little Mammoth do now when it's finally out
>> there making noise in your hands?
>>
>> Per
>>
>>>> http://www.krispenhartung.com/mini-jazz-guitar/index.htm
>>>>
>>>> An excerpt that really makes this guitar special....
>>>>
>>>> "The story behind this nut is just amazing and mind-blowing. A friend 
>of
>>>> Bobby's from Alaska sent him a good size chunk of Woolly Mammoth tusk,
>>>> which
>>>> you can see below. Just to jog your memory, mammoths went extinct
>>>> roughly
>>>> 10,000 years ago. Hence, the ivory nut on this guitar is an actual
>>>> artifact!
>>>> I was born in Alaska, and because of this, the size of the guitar, and
>>>> its
>>>> "big guitar sized" tone reported by Bobby, I named the guitar the "The
>>>> Little Mammoth.""
>>>>
>>>> Kris
>>
>
>