sam ash deals (no hamer content) ... updated. $550 midtown

[Willie G. Moseley]

Jeezus---Sam Ash already notified me my Midtown's shipped! One wonders if this has anything w/ the lower-price MF option. Finding out about that alternative too late after the fact means I may try to send it back to SA after all if I don't like it...but I'm still hoping I will...

[ArnieZ]

Anybody know if those Midtowns have laminated rosewood boards or solid?

ArnieZ

[DaveL]

here's my question... If I bought the les paul mahogany for $1150 at sam, and MF

can now meet that plus give a $100 price match credit, can I now go back to sam and

have them review that?

UPDATE: called Sam Ash and politely explained the 150% price match

deal with musician's friend (which expires tonight I hear), even tho they

explained they were at cost, they elevated it to their manager and they

took care of me...

very happy, arrives tuesday. the fact that it's in transit already might have helped.

NOW I'M GONNA CALL BACK MUSICIAN'S FRIEND AND HAVE THEM BEAT

THAT DEAL!!!

kidding, I'm friggin done

[JohnnyB]

The mini-hums have a lot of chime and seem to sit right between a single coil and a humbucker. Great great tone. I'm glad I got it.

I love good mini-buckers. They are the perfect prescription for someone torn between the clarity and midrange of P-90s vs. the low noise and fatter sound of full-sized buckers. Mini-buckers give you a nice blend of both, and I don't see why they don't show up in more guitars, especially when you look at what Johnny Winter and Gatemouth Brown didi with them. I had a couple of Eclipses (a 6 and a 12), and I currently have a Gretsch jazz box with a floating NOS Johnny Smith New York mini-bucker (adjustable polepieces).

Congratulations on your acquisition. You're going to have a lot of fun with it.

[MCChris]

I don't see why they don't show up in more guitars, especially when you look at what Johnny Winter and Gatemouth Brown did with them

There's your answer. Winter born in 1944, Brown born in 1924.

[hamerhead]

A lot of people confuse mini-hums with Firebird pickups. They're the same in size and appearance, very different in construction.

Minis in a Firebird won't have that classic Firebird sound - good or bad (I love it). A 3-pickup Firebird is the fattest/baddest Strat on the block.

[jisham]

One of the reasons I got the Firebird Tribute was the mini hums vs. the traditional Firebird pickups. I love the sound of the one I bought!

[Rebeka]

Thanks for pointing out the Sam Ash/Musician's Friend combo. I've got a Midtown on the way.

And here's another crazy deal if anyone is looking for a guitar to get for a kid's first guitar or maybe just a beater. Sam Ash has the ESP LTD EC256 for $199 today. Musician's Friend should pricematch and give the $100 gift card. Kinda hard to pass up a brand new guitar for $100 if you know of someone who needs one.

[Willie G. Moseley]

Got my Midtown Standard P90 today. Interesting piece (and concept), and I'll hang onto it for a while. It seems to want to be a hybrid, just as the original 335 was a hybrid over a half-century ago.

The chambered body balances well, and I like the idea that the bass P-90 is right up against the neck.

The biggest plus for me, though, is the neck binding and trap fret markers. As noted on the board earlier, the precursor to macular degeneration I've got means I need big, visible stuff on guitar and bass necks.

Wish there was a pickguard, and I wish the toggle switch was in a different location, but those are minor quibbles. This should make a decent utilitarian P-90 guitar...but I'm not sure I'd jumped on it at a higher price...

[Morris Davis]

Pics!