Cheap Version of Veillette (raised d) guitar?

[BenHarper]

Hi, was curious if anyone knows of a cheap knockoff version of a veillette gryphon? Or at least a guitar that is tuned to raised d, possibly 12-string of any design?

[mattinbeloit]

That Gryphon is very unique, there is nothing else out there that is in raised D. The closest you will get is the Tacoma Papoose 12 string that is raised to A.

http://www.elderly.com/new_instruments/items/PAP12E.htm

I've played 4 Veillette's and they were all great. I've played 2 Papoose 12 strings and was not that impressed, they were also fairly hard to play.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NELgzHkOx0

There is a video of some dbag playing one.

[pragya]

Archtop guitars are steel-stringed acoustic guitars with a distinctive "arched" belly and a sound particularly suited to blues guitar and jazz. They are also known as jazz-boxes or hollow bodies, although not all hollow body guitars are archtops.

The top (and often the back) of the archtop guitar are carved in a curved rather than a flat shape, and it normally has f-holes. This curve and f-holes are both similar to the violin family, on which they were originally based. Although any true archtop has a rich tone unamplified, most archtop guitars have some sort of pickup/microphone system, and many are intended primarily for this purpose and so may also be considered electric guitars. Most used on modern archtops are humbuckers in bridge and/or neck positions.

The archtop was invented by Lloyd Loar of the Gibson Guitar Corporation after designing a style of mandolin of the same type.

WidipediA link

For information on selecting a guitar for jazz visit the jazz guitar news group ( rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz) has a FAQ with answers to lots of common questions.




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