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Post by newey on Apr 25, 2019 11:06:27 GMT -5
Once more, into the breach! For extra giggles during Homecoming week, see if you can guess these guitar-related obscurities. As with last year, staff is ineligible, and first one to PM me all correct answers wins! If no one does so within a week, winner is the one with the most correct answers.
1) What is this, by make/model, and why is it significant?
2) Many Guitarists have had "Signature Models"- Les Paul with Gibson, Chet Atkins for Gretsch. This one, from 1958, is what artist's signature model? (Note that I have photoshopped the image to remove the sig on the headstock, otherwise it would have been pretty easy!)
3) This 1969 amp was made by what manufacturer?
4) This was first made/sold in 1947. What is it (i.e., Brand and Model)? What does it do? And, can you explain how it works?
5) Name the amp logos:
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6) What amp was this ad selling? And, who made it? (And thanks to YogiB for the family-friendly version, covering the lady's "attributes"  )
7) What was this guitar?
8) Who's this guy?
9) And this guy?
10) And this guy? |
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Post by reTrEaD on Apr 27, 2019 9:28:56 GMT -5
This is the toughest quiz newey has presented. Don't let the difficulty turn you away. PM your answers to newey even if you don't answer all the questions. Last year's winner was leadfingers with a score of 5 2/3 points out of 8. |
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Post by newey on May 5, 2019 8:41:20 GMT -5
So far, only Solderburn has taken a stab at this year's quiz. Since I was late getting it posted, I'll keep it open until 5/9, just to be sure everyone gets a shot. This year's quiz is heavy on the history, so old guys should have an advantage. But maybe it was harder than I thought . . .  |
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Post by sumgai on May 6, 2019 18:56:31 GMT -5
.... This year's quiz is heavy on the history, so old guys should have an advantage. But maybe it was harder than I thought . . .
I really hate it that I can't answer more than half of these questions! Well, OK, some of them are multi-part, so techically I don't know the what's what of 1 thru 4, but the rest of them are still within my cognitive grasp.
So much for my former glory as a "mind like a steel trap". These days it's more live a rusty sieve. Sigh.
sumgai
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Post by newey on May 12, 2019 13:48:10 GMT -5
Well, the quiz is over, and we have a winner: Solderburn, who was the only one the submit answers! So, it ends not with a bang but a wimper . . ..
Solderburn, PM me an addy IRL and I'll get a prize off to you (eventually . . .).
The winner's score was 10 out of a possible 12. He missed #7, the EH amp question, and I can't credit "Vox Tear Drop" for #8, it is a Mark VI.
The answers are:
1) It is a 1935 Audiovox Model 736 Bass Fiddle. It is the first Electric Bass Guitar, made by musician/inventor Paul Tutmarcc. Only 3 are known to exist. (This was 15 years before Leo made the Precision Bass, which was the first mass-produced bass guitar.)
2) A 1958 Harmony Roy Smeck Signature Model. Roy Smeck was a multi-instrumentalist famous during the vaudeville era, playing uke, banjo, and guitar.
3) A 1969 Harmony H55.
4) A 1946 DeArmond Trem-Trol Model 60. This is considerd to be the first stand-alone effects unit ever made. It worked electromechanically- an electric motor would moved a sealed vial containing a conductive liquid, thrug whoch the signal was passed. As the liquid sloshed around, the current being passed varied, cteating a tremolo effect. Famous users of this include Bo Diddley and Billy Gibbons.
5) Amp logos:
a) Ampeg
b) Sunn
c) Kustom
6) The Electro-Harmonix Mike Matthews Freedom Amp, powered by many "D" cell batteries.
7) A Vox Mark VI. Brian Jones of the Stones famously played one of these.
Thanks to Solderburn for playing. All others need to step up to the plate in the future!
8) Leo Fender
9) Bill Haley, of Bill Haley and the Comets, famous for "Rock Around the Clock".
10) Link Wray, the original guitar hero . . .
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Post by reTrEaD on May 12, 2019 15:37:40 GMT -5
Well, the quiz is over, and we have a winner: Solderburn Both leadfingers (last year's winner) and solderburn (this year's winner) earned bragging rights which will be proudly displayed in their user profile and in their mini-profile along side of every post they make. |
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Post by solderburn on May 12, 2019 16:08:12 GMT -5
Thanks for the fun quiz, newey! I'm sorry that no one else participated this time. And thanks reTrEaD! I have serious pride in that! Even though i was only one that made an entry.
Man, i totally didn't realize Teardrop was an unofficial name. I should've known. I grew up with my Dad's Vox Viper so i just felt like i knew what i was talking about. One thing's for sure, Vox's are cool instruments.
That reminds me, i need to replace the 3 way toggle switch PU selector on that Viper, i tried cleaning it with Deoxit and it still cuts out intermittently. I also tried sorta rebending the contact panels so they're closer together, but the switch is very old and simply loose and worn out, not achieving proper contact when it's in the middle position. Shouldn't be too difficult to replace. I'm thankful that the arsenal of onboard effects still functions well, because that would be a daunting task for me to troubleshoot.
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Post by newey on May 12, 2019 20:47:38 GMT -5
The Vox Mark series had a bass, the "Mark IV", a six-string, the "Mark VI", and a 12-string, the "Mark XII". I'm sensing a pattern there . . . |
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Post by b4nj0 on May 13, 2019 2:32:49 GMT -5
Not sure whether I count as an old guy but I am in my seventh decade...
When I first read the questions, there was only a few I could answer, and in addition, I couldn't get all of the multi-part questions. Perhaps it was indeed too hard but there's nothing wrong with that. Since it isn't "right' to use search engines, I gave it the swerve. That doesn't mean the effort wasn't appreciated though, and I enjoy these things when not forced to do them such as in the ubiquitous "pub quiz"...
e&oe...
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Post by reTrEaD on May 13, 2019 11:39:51 GMT -5
Perhaps it was indeed too hard but there's nothing wrong with that. I think it would have been better if was a bit less challenging but I was impressed with what Newey came up with in such a short time. This year the anniversary kinda snuck up on us and the preparations were a last-minute thing. I have serious pride in that! Even though i was only one that made an entry. You dared go where others feared to tread. That's completely Nutz™ |
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Post by newey on May 13, 2019 20:48:39 GMT -5
sumgai PM'd me that apparently Google now has a reverse-image ID thing where faces, etc are searchable.
I thought I was being so clever by using only visual questions, and saving everything with a new name so the source wasn't obvious. Apparently, that's not good enough in this Brave New World. In the future, I'll either have to become more obscure or give up the enterprise entirely. In this searchable universe we've created, questions that are ungoogle-able become either hopelessly vague (resulting in multiple possible answers) or become so obscure that they aren't fair for the majority of folks. The only way to do a trivia quiz anymore is to do it in real-time,via a net conference app or some such, so that short time limits on answering could be imposed.
I can't even use sound clips, since there are apps to disclose unknown recordings, unless I get so obscure that it's my neighbors garage band I'm asking about.
(as an aside: Does anyone actually have a neighbor who has a garage band anymore? Or. is everyone just sitting in front of a DAW with headphones on?)
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