From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2013 #1380 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe:mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Website:http://jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Monday, October 14 2013 Volume 2013 : Number 1380 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- re: Joni Guitar/strings [c Karma ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 21:57:56 +0000 From: c Karma Subject: re: Joni Guitar/strings I think this came from Simon's research:In 2003 Westwood Music offered -3- of Joni's guitars for sale via auctions on eBay. The following statement was included with the eBay item description: As Mitchell explored jazzier sounds in the late '70s, she turned to electric guitars. From 1979 until the mid-'80s, she performed with five George Benson model Ibanez guitars, which were set up by Joel Bernstein and Larry Cragg with a range of string gauges to accommodate her tunings. At that time, the Roland Jazz Chorus amp--which was invented, Mitchell says, so she could replicate her Hejira sound in performance--was an important component of her live sound. - --ACOUSTIC GUITAR, AUGUST 1996If so, it seems to indicate that her techs DID set up her guitars differently with different string gauges to accommodate different tunings. I wonder if this was done to facilitate ease of playing, control of sound, or to protect the instrument from stresses for which they were not built. It would also be interesting to know if they also had a few dreadnoughts similarly strung. Of course, since many of us here like to investigate her tunings and guitar transcriptions...I'd bet our instruments would appreciate the string gauge prescriptions for each tuning if they exist. Anyone in a position to hit Joel or Larry with the question?CC ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2013 #1380 ****************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------