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• frater Prodigy

  October 2010 Posts: 763

  There is nothing like a Selmer, this is the gospel. And when you doubt it, look at this and bow your head in sacred fear:
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RGd8reElUQ
• klaatu Nova ScotiaProdigy Rodrigo Shopis D'Artagnan, 1950s Jacques Castelluccia

  October 2010 Posts: 1,665

  Holy ovalhole, Batman! Simply incredible!
  
  Of course, as one of the comments says, "it's Stochelo playing, he could make a stringed fruit box sound good."

  Benny
  
  "It's a great feeling to be dealing with material which is better than yourself, that you know you can never live up to."
  -- Orson Welles
• HCQ Northeast NJ✭✭✭

  October 2010 Posts: 225

  Wow..............

  HCQ
• MichaelHorowitz SeattleAdministrator

  October 2010 Posts: 6,213

  scot wrote:

  Favino has always been an artisan guitar, where Selmer and Busato (as far as I know) were made in small factories, like Martin but even smaller.

  
  Well that's debatable as the Selmer guitar workshop was in a factory but after the initial couple of years the work force was reduced to around four or less employees and in the final years it was just one. Pretty similar to Favino who had a similar sized shop with four luthiers during the "golden years." Busato is a mystery of course and the only piece of information I've seen is Jacques Favino's mention of there being up to 40 employees at Busato's shop. But they made lots of stuff including banjos, drums, basses, etc. Who knows how many guys made guitars. According to Bob Holo, Busatos look like they were made quickly with little attention to aesthetic details inside the guitar (who cares, you don't see it anyway!) So Busato may have been the most "factory" like of the big three....but he also experimented the most. Seems that no two are totally alike and there are so many radical ones like Michael's Beast!
• klaatu Nova ScotiaProdigy Rodrigo Shopis D'Artagnan, 1950s Jacques Castelluccia

  October 2010 Posts: 1,665

  Michael Horowitz wrote:

  According to Bob Holo, Busatos look like they were made quickly with little attention to aesthetic details inside the guitar

  
  Yeah, that Jacques Casteluccia D hole that I just bought from Michael is a bit rough inside - there are practically splinters sticking out of the one brace that you can see - but what a sound!

  Benny
  
  "It's a great feeling to be dealing with material which is better than yourself, that you know you can never live up to."
  -- Orson Welles
• Jeff Moore Minneapolis✭✭✭✭ Lebreton 2

  November 2010 Posts: 476

  Wow, its good to witness personal preferences still prevail even when great guitars and experienced listeners are compared. It puts the choice back on each player, where it belongs.

  "We need a radical redistribution of wealth and power" MLK