Cheap Electric for a Gypsy Jazz Player?

limalima · June 9

That is exactly right that there are two questions being discussed. For the best electric in GJ I can't say much. I would think the archtop of your choice.

Regarding the electric as a practice tool, and Baris in general:

Baritones often have a much longer scale length - the squires are a bit strange in that they are only 27". It makes them good standard tuning guitars. I have also tuned a PRS 277 semi-hollow (with a 27.7" scale length, P90s) to standard tuning and it sounded wonderful for straight ahead and solo jazz stuff. It's a poor man's Soloway.

paulmcevoy75 · June 9

Idk as a guitar maker and person who would like you to buy one of my guitars, it might be ironic but I tend to think most guitars are more alike then they are different. If you absolutely need the feel of a Selmer style guitar to practice, then you probably need to find a way to practice on a Selmer guitar. You can use gypsy or downstroke or whatever kind of picking on any sort of guitar and that could transfer to different kinds of music, but a Selmer guitar is going to feel different and acoustic guitars are going to respond in a totally different way than any other sort of guitars.

For me it would be cool to build a tele with a Selmer style neck because I think that would be a cool instrument in and of itself but not really because I would think of it as a silent or practice Selmer. I forget who the OG guy was who had a plank of wood electric guitar in Paris with a Selmer style neck?

Just my opinion but I guess my ideal is a fluid technique that isn't entirely instrument dependent, it's versatile and creative and fun. Do I have that: no.

I follow F1 more than I would like to admit and I think an interesting parallel is who uses the simulators and who doesn't. Lewis Hamilton doesn't like driving in simulators because there's no g force or responsiveness that he'd get driving a normal car. Makes sense. But then he loses the actual practice time that most of the other drivers get.

Blabbing pointlessly. Leaving for DIJ in a minute.

voutoreenie · June 9

https://www.djangobooks.com/forum/discussion/comment/125576#Comment_125576

As a former bridge player, same for me whenever I pick up a strat or telecaster now and trying to relearn my old technique has been challenging...had a completely different pick grip as well. That said, I can switch to playing my 335 with relative ease and I think it's primarily due to both the 335s bridge and spacing it creates, feels a lot more comfortable in comparison to strats/teles.