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Topic: msa d-10 classic SS p.s.g |
Paul Wade
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mundelein,ill
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Posted 20 Jan 2018 8:51 am |
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anyone still playing a msa classic SS models?? would like to here some audio on this guitar and what is your set up
thanks
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Darvin Willhoite
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Roxton, Tx. USA
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Posted 20 Jan 2018 7:06 pm
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I'm gonna be playing one again when I get this one restored. Purtiest steel gitar I ever saw.
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Darvin Willhoite
MSA Millennium, Legend, and Studio Pro, Reese's restored Universal Direction guitar, a restored MSA Classic SS, several amps, new and old, and a Kemper Powerhead that I am really liking. Also a Zum D10, a Mullen RP, and a restored Rose S10, named the "Blue Bird". Also, I have acquired and restored the plexiglass D10 MSA Classic that was built as a demo in the early '70s. I also have a '74 lacquer P/P, with wood necks, and a showroom condition Sho-Bud Super Pro. |
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Paul Wade
From:
mundelein,ill
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Posted 21 Jan 2018 6:58 pm
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Paul Wade
From:
mundelein,ill
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Posted 22 Jan 2018 6:58 am msa d-10 classic SS p.s.g
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darvin,
that's a pretty guitar you got wow 
bet it sounds great...
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Darvin Willhoite
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Roxton, Tx. USA
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Posted 22 Jan 2018 8:53 am
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I never even played it. I have to lift all of mine 1 1/2" to 2" or I can't get under them. As soon as I got it, I tore it down for a complete restoration. The body went to Mark Giles to get the little dings and scrapes fixed. It'll look like brand new when I get it back. I have a lot of aluminum to polish and a few parts to make while he's working on the body. I'll probably put Alumitone pickups in it, they seem to work best for me.
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Darvin Willhoite
MSA Millennium, Legend, and Studio Pro, Reese's restored Universal Direction guitar, a restored MSA Classic SS, several amps, new and old, and a Kemper Powerhead that I am really liking. Also a Zum D10, a Mullen RP, and a restored Rose S10, named the "Blue Bird". Also, I have acquired and restored the plexiglass D10 MSA Classic that was built as a demo in the early '70s. I also have a '74 lacquer P/P, with wood necks, and a showroom condition Sho-Bud Super Pro. |
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Paul Wade
From:
mundelein,ill
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Posted 25 Jan 2018 4:42 am
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J R Rose
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Keota, Oklahoma, USA
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Posted 27 Jan 2018 3:03 pm
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OH WOW Darvin. That is Purty!! Had one of these years back in Red. Tough as a Boot. Stayed in tune forever. J.R.
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David Mitchell
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Tyler, Texas
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Posted 27 Jan 2018 8:03 pm
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| I bought one and traded it to Junior Knight a few days later. Those are unique. Junior told me when Bud Carter designed it his mission was to build the smallest guitar possible that had a 3 raise/3 lower changer. For those that have never seen one it is so compact they sawed part of the E9th 10 string and C6th first string tuner buttons off so they wouldn't collide because the necks are so close. I had my push pull sitting in the studio and measured the two and it was even smaller than a push pull body. I called it a tiny steel and everyone was laughing on facebook but compared to ZumSteel's, LeGrande,s and even Mullen steels it is tiny. You would just have to see one to know what it is. The one I had didn't sound like any MSA I ever had. It had a bright lively tone similar to my Emmons LeGrande sitting next to it. You can tell Bud carried those ideas over to Carter Guitars. Nice find Darvin! That's a pretty one. |
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Paul Wade
From:
mundelein,ill
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Posted 28 Jan 2018 5:21 am msa d-10 classic SS p.s.g
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here are a couple of mine. i had wish i had them back 
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David Mitchell
From:
Tyler, Texas
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Posted 28 Jan 2018 5:48 am
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| You don't need a tape line to see the difference in cabinet size in Paul's picture. I should have kept the one I had too. I buy and sale a lot of steels but sometimes you find some that are just plain cool. |
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Donny Hinson
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Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 28 Jan 2018 12:29 pm
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| Reece once told me that one of the drivers behind the design of the "SS" models was to make a guitar as small (or smaller) than the Emmons p/p, which at the time was the essence of compactness. |
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