Comments on: Popular Surf Guitars http://www.surfguitar.com/music-gear/popular-surf-guitars/ Surf Bands, Surf Music, Surf Gear & Reverb! Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:16:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Patrick Tuohy http://www.surfguitar.com/music-gear/popular-surf-guitars/comment-page-1/#comment-605 Patrick Tuohy Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:16:05 +0000 http://www.surfguitar.com/?p=90#comment-605 Most surf music of the early 60's was played on medium flatwound strings. Dick Dale says he used heavy strings but I don't know if they were flatwounds. Leo Fender designed the Jazzmaster for Jazz players and flatwounds were very popular until the late 60's. One of the enduring qualities of surf music is the simplicity of getting some of the basic sounds. An minor chord, some reverb and a whammy bar are such a fine combination. If you listen to the Ventures and some other early surf bands you may notice that their use of reverb is fairly conservative. A tube driven long spring reverb unit is a bit much at 10. I'm so glad the Romanians like surf music. Most surf music of the early 60′s was played on medium flatwound strings. Dick Dale says he used heavy strings but I don’t know if they were flatwounds. Leo Fender designed the Jazzmaster for Jazz players and flatwounds were very popular until the late 60′s.

One of the enduring qualities of surf music is the simplicity of getting some of the basic sounds. An minor chord, some reverb and a whammy bar are such a fine combination.

If you listen to the Ventures and some other early surf bands you may notice that their use of reverb is fairly conservative. A tube driven long spring reverb unit is a bit much at 10. I’m so glad the Romanians like surf music.

]]> By: Josh http://www.surfguitar.com/music-gear/popular-surf-guitars/comment-page-1/#comment-583 Josh Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:36:20 +0000 http://www.surfguitar.com/?p=90#comment-583 Fender Strats are some of the best and most used Guitars in all types of styles but why aren't any acoustics up there? Fender Strats are some of the best and most used Guitars in all types of styles but why aren’t any acoustics up there?

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