I recently picked up a really early Musicmaster II -- according to my information, this guitar was made two months before the IIs and the Mustang were even announced. Everything is dated June 1964 (neck, pots, pickups), it's got the spaghetti decal, and a low L28*** serial number.
It's my first short scale guitar -- and it's serving its purpose: I can finally play those John Lennon rhythm parts! (Strings help for this: just after taking these pictures, I put on some 13 flat wounds, which are staying in tune nicely and sound great)
Adam
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 10:58 pm
by honeyiscool
What a beauty! And in such amazing shape, too.
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 11:09 pm
by stewart
wow. it could have been assembled after june '64 of course, using left over stock from the older musicmasters/duos and the new style body etc. but still, i've never seen another stock model quite like it.
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 11:15 pm
by anhammon
The neck is definitely the new style (judging from the headstock) -- so I guess only the pickups and electronics could be from the older stock?
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 11:19 pm
by westtexasred
Awesome! Now make some Tentative Decisions!
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Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 11:20 pm
by singlepup
Goddamn she is a thing of beauty.
Musicmaster players,unite and take over.
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 11:23 pm
by anhammon
So I can play like John Lennon (well, closer), I look like David Byrne, and I'm inspiring Smiths references. This guitar IS magic!
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 11:34 pm
by DGNR8
Was that kept in an airtight room at the SMithsonian? It's not aged a bit. Spectacular. Rout for humbers.
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 11:35 pm
by hotrodperlmutter
DGNR8 wrote:Was that kept in an airtight room at the SMithsonian? It's not aged a bit. Spectacular. Rout for humbers.
L@L
DO IT
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 11:44 pm
by anhammon
Looks a bit more pristine in the pictures than in person. But definitely kept in spectacularly good shape. I feel a bit guilty playing it. But not so guilty as I'd feel with humbuckers :)
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 11:46 pm
by honeyiscool
anhammon wrote:So I can play like John Lennon (well, closer), I look like David Byrne, and I'm inspiring Smiths references. This guitar IS magic!
Do you have Liz Phair tits too?
Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 12:07 am
by westtexasred
honeyiscool wrote:
anhammon wrote:So I can play like John Lennon (well, closer), I look like David Byrne, and I'm inspiring Smiths references. This guitar IS magic!
Do you have Liz Phair tits too?
Haha...hers is red!
Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 1:33 am
by Joey
hotrodperlmutter wrote:
DGNR8 wrote:Was that kept in an airtight room at the SMithsonian? It's not aged a bit. Spectacular. Rout for humbers.
L@L
DO IT
EMG's H/H/H
Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 1:56 am
by anhammon
... but, unsurprisingly, she has more than one!
Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 2:25 am
by westtexasred
anhammon wrote:... but, unsurprisingly, she has more than one!
That one is a Duo-Sonic....or....did she modify the red one?
Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 3:25 am
by anhammon
No no, just one of her many Duo Sonic/Musicmaster IIs (I wasn't being terribly precise...)
Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 4:24 am
by honeyiscool
She only seems to have the two she always plays, though, the white Duo and the red MM. When I saw her, she played both:
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MM.
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Duo.
It's funny. When I think of the definitive short scale album, I think of Exile in Guyville because that album captures the raw tone of a Duo Sonic like no other album. I mean, sure John McLaughlin played a Musicmaster on all those Miles Davis albums, but he doesn't exactly sound like a normal person would playing one of those guitars, whereas Liz does. I became interested in Mustangs out of a case of mistaken identity (I thought her Duo was a Mustang).
Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 9:00 am
by Johnny Noir
it's a musicmaster II, is it routing for 2 pickups?
Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 11:35 am
by stewart
anhammon wrote:The neck is definitely the new style (judging from the headstock) -- so I guess only the pickups and electronics could be from the older stock?
