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From: kirsch@sjuvax.UUCP (P. Kirsch)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Stanley Jordan
Message-ID: <2516@sjuvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 15:05:52 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  4 15:05:52 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 8-Nov-85 07:15:09 EST
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Reply-To: kirsch@sjuvax.UUCP (P. Kirsch)
Organization: St. Joseph's University, Phila. PA.
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Summary: 

> What is special about Stanley Jordan is that he plays the
> guitar in a way that I believe no one else has ever done it
> - he taps the strings along the fretboard, playing it like a
> keyboard (I believe that they do something special with the
> amplification of the guitar).  This enables him to play
> independent bass and treble parts simultaneously on
> different parts of the fretboard...
>

Besides the amplification of the guitar I think he uses a guitar with an
aluminum-based neck which gives a better vibration of the strings when
hammers down on it with his right hand. To me one of the biggest drawbacks
to Jordan is that he can get no type of vibrato whatsoever with this method--
this to me leaves a guitar sound that is lacking in "feel".



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                              Paul Kirsch
                              St. Joseph's University
                              Philadelphia, Pa

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