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| Tonnie Guitar | |||||||||||||||||
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I'am an old jazz player and fan, but young at heart |
I've played the guitar since I was 12 years old. Starting on a tenor (4 string) guitar. After a few years I was able to buy my first (solid body) Hagström 6 string guitar. A few months ago I converted completely to the 7 string guitar, using a low A string. I've been lucky to hear and see some of my own guitar heroes live! Here's a short list: Kenny Burrell, Tal Farlow, Jim Hall, Barney Kessel, Pat Matheny, Peter Leitch, Joe Pass, Louis Stewart, René Thomas e.a. At about 14 I started collecting jazz guitar records, mostly bought at sales or in a nearby used record shop (Concerto in Amsterdam). So now I have quite a collection and I have continued collecting but now of course CDs. | ||||||||||||||||
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For many years I played mostly Gibson guitars, like: ES 175 DN, Johnny Smith JDD WR, ES-347 B. Recently I have mainly played Ibanez guitars PM 100, JP 100 and more recently the AF 207. For many years I played in dance bands in France, Germany, Switzerland and of course my native Netherlands. We played a lot at US Air Force Bases, mostly at NCO clubs. Then I came to Norway with a German band and stayed. Here I have played in big bands, combos and more recently I play with a Norwegian tenor sax player as a duo. His name is Kjell Tombra. We use Jamey Aebersold's CDs and Band-in-a-Box as comp, played through a Fender Passport PA. I just received B-i-a-B's latest upgrade and I like what I've seen and heard so far. It really does swing and makes us sound like "a million". You can see our logo at the bottom. | Guitar brands | ||||||||||||||||
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I started with an amp in a portable recordplayer. Then I started with using the amp in a portable record player. Then my dad built me a small amp. When I first started playing professionally I bought a Gibson amp. Later I used a Fender Twin. More recently I have used much smaller and lighter amps like: Polytones and Gallien-Kruegers. I have also used some effects, but tired of carrying around some much stuff I have reduced it to only one or two. Usually only a mild echo and/or reverb and an exciter. | ||||||||||||||||
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