Kramer ferrington acoustic
With the aid of my effects box, the Kramer Ferrington allows me to play anything from folk acoustic, to metal and everything in between. I have no plans or need to buy a different guitar. I would assume this guitar must be now (in 2002) about 15 years old, and has been with me for 8 years. It seemed to have suffered some abuse from the first owner(s?), but still stands strong, plays well, and looks great. The instrument seems to be very well constructed. It is perfect for my sound, style and needs. I dont pay gigs or professionally, so the strap is no big deal - I just play sitting down.Īll these negative points are not enough to affect my positive overall opinion of this guitar.
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Get a low price and free shipping on thousands of items. I have tried tiying the strap to the end of the neck but the strap gets in the way of playing some chords. Get the guaranteed best price on 6 String Acoustic Guitars like the Kramer Ferrington Acoustic Guitar at Musicians Friend. It has a strap knob at the bottom, but no other to hook the other end of the strap. It seems to be impossible to strap this guitar. The plug connector has a tendency to losen up from playing vibration and needs to be screwed in often. Since Kramer is no longer in business, any lost pieces may be hard to replace.
On the bridge, the strings rest on 6 small individual plastic pieces that can be easily lost if not careful, when changing strings. The pickup 9v battery is akwardly placed inside the guitar's sound box in a way that it can only be changed by loosening 4-5 strings to get to it. So I use the same guitar for heavy and accoustic sounds.
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Sounds great even with distortion hard rock type effects, which made me end up not buying a full electric (my innitial plan was to buy an accoustic and an electric). Van Halen's influence/input in the design concept).
It has great resonance for harmonics (probably a result from E. The adjustable metal rod in the neck to counteract/fix any bowing. The electric guitar style neck which suits me perfectly as I have small hands and acoustics in general have wide necks. The fact that it is much smaller than "regular" acoustic guitars. There was a slight crunch damage to the wood/plastic bridge, but I tried it out at the shop and it had no effect on the sound, playability, or string positioning, so I offered $225 and took it home. It should be a fairly easy fix from what I can tell. The guitar is in Good Shape Electronically and Cosmetically but does need the bridge repaired. Let me know if you want any more of this.Bought my Kramer Ferrington acoustic guitar used in 1994 at a Phoenix-AZ used guitar shop that has since gone out of business. Up for bids is this 1980s Kramer Ferrington acoustic-electric 6-String Guitar. There's more in another section regarding a similar guitar but I will have to find that and put it in another post. Pre-order the album from Gibson Records, out February 11, 2022. The purple prototype allows musicians like Dweezil to transpose their electric technique onto an acoustic guitar without having to make adjustments in playing style, and the sound that they get on my guitar is unique." Left-handed Kramer Ferrington acoustic bass from 1987 : I'm always on the lookout for interesting guitars and basses for our left-handed friends, and reckon that this 1987 Kramer Ferrington acoustic bass isn't something that you see every day, let alone find as a left-handed model. Listen to Fill My World, the second single release from Slash featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators’ forthcoming new album 4. I thought I'd try using a very light bracing pattern across the top of an acoustic guitar so the instrument would have a regular acoustic presence even though it's strung with electric guitar strings. Musicians occasionally try to compensate by putting electric strings on an acoustic guitar, but the sound ends up being so soft that it's sometimes hard to hear what's being played. Dweezil has a few of my guitars, and he's really a fast player, but folks like him don't usually use acoustic guitars because the strings are so heavy that it's practically impossible to play in the kind of quick, pyrotechnical style that they like so much. The Purple Prototype was the product of an idea I had after thinking about the playing style of Dweezil Zappa. Sounds awesome.įrom Ferrington Guitars, edited by Kate Giel, Harper Collins and Callaway Editions, 1992: