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Location: Cherry Hill, NJ | Stopped into the local GC to get some strings. I made the rounds, acoustic and electric. Went over to the VXT display, and saw the Taylor T guitars for $2,600, side by side with the O hybrid. Also, there was a Parkwood Hybrid. Didn't get a chance to try it, but the price was $949. Its this model Parkwood Demo Anybody own a hybrid? If so what kind of amp are you using? I wanna go out and buy one. Opinions on the hybrids? |
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Location: South of most, North of few | If I could play like that, I might consider one too. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | After Matt's Amelia Isle clinic, I'm expecting the whole batch of us to be able to shred just like that. Oh, yeah, we're mainly going for the acoustic tones. His demo of the guitar's capabilities was impressive nonetheless. |
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Location: SoCal | The guy's a very good player, but I can look just as silly in a doo rag..... |
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Location: Cherry Hill, NJ | Paul, Actually, you would look serious, in a doo rag. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | sillier, no doubt.
Great demo. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Agreeing with TJ;
If I ever get that good, that might be a handy tool.
Don't expect to need it anytime soon. But it looks like a nice git-fiddle.
Get one used for three hundred next year. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Hybrid with the choice of programable electronics is the next wave. I have made an all Mahogany Viper with the LR Baggs Tuna-matic Bridge and a parallel mag pup and it was more fun than you can imagine.
It's owned by the Ovation UK site owner.
Now HE'S an Ovation NUT! |
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Location: Tychy, Poland | if you want a hybrid, you should check also:
- Godin LGX 3 voice
- Music Man (Silhuette / Luke)
- Line6 Variax 600 / 700 (they work great combined with Line6 amps)
- Parker P44 (i know, they look silly)
This Parkwood sounded quite good on clean and acoustic channel, jazzy sound was great, but overdriven was so-so at best (for my ears) |
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by Louie Bring Jagermeister (now):
- Parker P44 (i know, they look silly) I think the Parker Jazz looks real nice...
The Parker Hardtail has an 'industrial' finish and grows on you.
Both guitars do the hybrid-thing very well.
Maybe one day, I'll be able to meet Fred's ransom demands and get my Jazz back.
The Rainsong JZ1000 makes the grade at the smooth end of hybrid guitars. If only it had a blend for the acoustic bridge.
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Location: South of most, North of few | Sorry, to me the Parker looks like the bandsaw blade broke before they finished it. :D |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | The Parker has some style, if you like it or not is another matter.
The rainsong just looks too clumsey, tries to be traditional and falls way short.
All these hybred guitars are a nice fad and will fade in a few years, it's really just a new type of electric that has varying degrees of acousticness. On the other hand A prewar Dreadnaught or L-5 or Loar mandolin will never go out of style and always increase in price. |
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Location: Vermont USA | moody p.i. posted "The guy's a very good player, but I can look just as silly in a doo rag"
I bet even more so.
Pauly |
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Location: NJ | I always thought that the Parkers were a very nicely-designed guitar . . . |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Factoid:
Parker no longer makes Parkers. He sold the company, that's why you now see those weird finishes. Parker helped evolve the electric guitar. He's now making some really cool (and expensive acoustics) in upstate new york. You could say he's evolving the acoustic.
That said, I've played a parker, forgot the model name, and it's sweet. |
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Location: NJ | A friend of mine bought one of the original Fly's when they first came out. He still has it. It's a sweet guitar.
There was a really good article in the NewYorker("yes, the NewYorker) about Parker a couple months ago . . . |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | The Parker article was reprinted in numerous newspapers across the country. I saw it in the Rocky Mountain News and still have it someplace. It was an informative piece on him personally. |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | I guess the "hybrid" has come to stay,alongside with other electric/acoustics,just like the syntesiser co-exists with the piano..it`s a new instrument.. :)
Vic
..modern technology can be good.. |
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Location: Nashville TN. | Hamer makes a hybrid too |
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