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AH: I tried the early Roland synth and loved the idea of the sounds, but it didn’t really work for me. Tom Mulhern at Guitar Player magazine recommended the Synthaxe and that was where that relationship started. Also guitar-wise, I played Charvels for a while, and later discovered the Steinberger. That was it. I just thought it was amazing. It was real hard to switch back to any other guitar. I became friendly with Ned Steinberger. He would send me the guitars without any frets, and then I would send them to a luthier by the name of Bill DeLap and he would flatten the fingerboard, and take out the relief. I like the neck to be absolutely straight. We would put Jim Dunlop 6000 fret wire in it. I had quite a few of these. Also, Bill built me a few baritone guitars. He made me a regular length wooden Steinberger and basically I’ve been playing that till I hooked up with Carvin for this new custom guitar. I play about 80% of the time now on the Carvin and 20% on the Steinberger. It’s still nice to switch back and forth. I love headless guitars. I think the new Carvin is an excellent guitar. | AH: I tried the early Roland synth and loved the idea of the sounds, but it didn’t really work for me. Tom Mulhern at Guitar Player magazine recommended the Synthaxe and that was where that relationship started. Also guitar-wise, I played Charvels for a while, and later discovered the Steinberger. That was it. I just thought it was amazing. It was real hard to switch back to any other guitar. I became friendly with Ned Steinberger. He would send me the guitars without any frets, and then I would send them to a luthier by the name of Bill DeLap and he would flatten the fingerboard, and take out the relief. I like the neck to be absolutely straight. We would put Jim Dunlop 6000 fret wire in it. I had quite a few of these. Also, Bill built me a few baritone guitars. He made me a regular length wooden Steinberger and basically I’ve been playing that till I hooked up with Carvin for this new custom guitar. I play about 80% of the time now on the Carvin and 20% on the Steinberger. It’s still nice to switch back and forth. I love headless guitars. I think the new Carvin is an excellent guitar. | ||
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Holdsworth plays a hollow body custom guitar that he helped design for Carvin. "It’s kind of like a closed semi-acoustic," he explains. "The top and the back don’t touch any part of the wood on the inside except at the bridge. So it feels a lot like an acoustic guitar except that it’s closed, there’s no holes. You can squeeze a little bit more dynamics out of that kind of an instrument than with a solid body. It’s what I needed for the direction that I wanted to take on this new record." | Holdsworth plays a hollow body custom guitar that he helped design for Carvin. "It’s kind of like a closed semi-acoustic," he explains. "The top and the back don’t touch any part of the wood on the inside except at the bridge. So it feels a lot like an acoustic guitar except that it’s closed, there’s no holes. You can squeeze a little bit more dynamics out of that kind of an instrument than with a solid body. It’s what I needed for the direction that I wanted to take on this new record." | ||
