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

[Richard Sales <richard@glasswing.com>]

Sweet, Kris.  I like it.

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On 15-Jun-08, at 8:05 PM, Krispen Hartung 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