Gretsch Vintage Select Edition 1959 Chet Atkins Country Gentleman • Wildwood Guitars
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ก.พ. 2017
- A blast from the classic era of Gretsch’s storied past, the G6120T-59VS 1959 Chet Atkins Hollow Body with Bigsby revisits this historic model. Packed with astounding tone, comfortable feel and elegantly slick style, this instrument is ready to stand by your side onstage or in the studio, bringing out the best in your music and your playing. As refined or raw as you need it to be, this guitar will be an invaluable center-point of your sonic arsenal.
A pair of the ever popular TV Jones® Classic pickups creates high-quality tone with plenty of dynamics and articulation on tap. Traditional Gretsch controls, including dedicated volume controls for both the neck and bridge pickups, master volume and the classic three-position tone switch, allow you to blend and shape the pickups’ sound, creating countless tonal variations. The new Gretsch “Squeezebox” paper-in-oil capacitors provide an incredibly silky high end. The vintage “V”-shaped maple neck bears a 12”-radius ebony fingerboard with 22 frets for a classic playing experience that works with all musical styles. 1959 trestle bracing connects the top and back of this guitar for authentic, snappy vintage tone. A pinned “rocking” bar bridge reacts in tandem with the Bigsby B6CVT vibrato tailpiece for stable tuning while the vintage-style genuine bone nut lets the strings slide freely without binding in the slots.
Designed for pure tone and slick, comfortable playing feel, this guitar features the classic aesthetics true Gretsch fans love-nickel “G Arrow” control knobs, aged white binding with black purfling, durable gloss nitrocellulose lacquer finish, aged pearloid thumbnail inlays, gold vintage thick plexi pickguard with Gretsch logo and nickel Grover Sta-tite tuning machines. Elegant style and refined sound combine to make the G6120T-59VS 1959 Chet Atkins® Hollow Body with Bigsby a Gretsch aficionado’s dream guitar.
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Brand Gretsch
Model G6122T-62GE Vintage Select Edition 1962 Chet Atkins Country Gentleman
Finish Type Gloss Urethane
Top Wood Laminated 3-Ply Maple with Simulated F-Holes
Back & Sides Wood Laminated Maple
Neck Wood Maple
Neck Shape Standard "U"
Fingerboard Ebony
Fingerboard Radius 12"
Fingerboard Inlays Aged Pearloid Thumbnails
Scale Length 25.5"
Width at Nut 1.75"
Headstock Gold-Plated Name Plate on Headstock
Binding Aged White
Pickups 2 TV Jones Classic
Controls Master Volume, Neck Volume, Bridge Volume, Tone Switch, 3-Way Toggle, Standby Switch
Hardware Gold-Plated
Tuners Grover Imperial Gold
Bridge Rocking Bar Bridge
Tailpiece Bigsby
Pickguard Gold Plexi
Case Gretsch Hardshell Case - เพลง
I love how Joe's face lights up with that big smile, such a wonderful man! The short time I talked with him in Nashville at Setzer's show meant so much to me and my mother. Greg is a dynamo on guitar, wonder what the "Humbler" would have thought of him!
I'm done searching. This is the most beautiful sounding electric guitar on the planet, for the genres of country, jazz and spaghetti western/surf. It has twang, jangle and warmth all at once.
find yourself someone to look at you the way Joe Carducci looks at Greg Koch
No doubt. If you're in the guitar biz, how you not adore a player that shows how amazing your instruments can sound?
cooljomark. best comment in the entire "intergoogle", as greg would say
BAHAHAHA too funny and true
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Love ❤️
One of your BEST videos! A pleasure to watch you play!
Just what I was wishing for :) Thanks wildwood guitars!!!
I wish Joe would have gone into more detail on this instrument. It goes far deeper than he explained here.
The stock configuration of the ‘59 was not at all like these. It was two Filtertrons, Grover Imperial “T” shaped tuners, a tone switch (the infamous mud switch), a pickup selector switch, a bridge pickup volume knob, neck pickup volume knob, and a master volume. So there were two switches on the upper bout. In other words, identical to the ‘62 double cut CG with the exception of the standby switch added in 62.
Chet’s ‘59 was indeed his favorite. He was also constantly tinkering with things searching for a better mouse trap.
He and Ray Butts developed a “better” version of the Filtertron with bars instead of pole screws. This was the Supertron. Chet loved it in the neck position of his guitar. He then hand-wound a bridge pickup that paired well with the Supertron.
He also removed the tone selector switch as it was never used, re-wired the volume knobs and master volume to the configuration of this guitar. The original Grover “T” shaped tuners were replaced with the later style “butter bean” tuners as they were lighter.
Gretsch never adopted Chet’s changes to production guitars as they were still producing the ‘62 version CG and most players were accustomed to how Gretsch did things.
When Fred Gretsch started the company back up he approached Paul Yandell who was Chet’s sideman for 25 years. Paul looked after Chet’s gear when he began getting older and having more health issues.
Paul worked with Gretsch to emulate Chet’s ‘59 to include all the mods he had done to it. So the current production ‘59 Country Gentleman is not at all like an original ‘59 CG. It is a faithful replica of Chet’s ‘59 CG.
That is what makes this particular model so unique out of all the Gretsch models. To leave out this information and not credit Paul’s contribution is negligent. The changes that make this guitar special were not Gretsch’s ideas. They were Chet’s.
I own the lefty version of this guitar! It is AWESOME!
I had a brand-new 1966 Gretsch Chet Atkins Country Gentleman for awhile, & the "Filtertron" pickups made that thing sound like a piano, it was SO clean. One of the nicest American Made axes I sure wish I'd hung onto. Wasn't fond the muting ability, just use the heel of your hand, but the neck feel was great. Of course, back then we had to really play around to get "fuzz" & most other common FX everyone takes for granted today. A Phase Shifter was an engineer manually rocking the tape head in the studio, i.e. Couldn't get that sound, live. The better amps usually had reverb & tremolo, but that was it. If you had some extra $$, you could get an Echoplex tape delay for true echo of maybe half a second with available infinite repeats & on into weird feedback FX, but they were cost-prohibitive for most & undependable, mechanically. If you wanted overdrive, you got a good tube amp (like a Fender Super Reverb) & crank it up until you just about couldn't stand it (and risk blown-out speakers), OR you could GENTLY preamp it with another (small) amp brain & hope it didn't start smoking (you had to take a speaker output & feed it into the input of your "main" amp, dangerous stuff, that). There was no "fuzz" or "distortion" box made back then. When you wanted "light gauge" strings, you'd move the whole set down one (so the 'A' became the low 'E') and use a banjo high 'A' for the high 'E'. It's easy to do with a Bigsby, whammy, just hook the banjo string's loop over the peg of the Bigsby. Otherwise, it was tricky, BUT there was only one weight string set, too heavy. The only way I'd really miss those bad ol' days is if only I could've known then what I do know now. 🤗 HAH!!! 😎
Thank you sir for sharing this. You really took me there my friend. So cool to hear the little tricks before you could have everything with a couple of clicks on the computer. My Dad has been an Master Instructor most of his life but was more into acoustic and banjo never really tone chased like me so this really made my day. Have you ever thought of
writing a book of stories like this?
Trying to alternate finger pick open claw then closed, then open (both directions) was almost impossible if also palm muting. Chet Atkins didn't (couldn't ?) even do it.
this guy is a good guitarist.
What a sound , what a beautiful guitar. The guitar of choice for the master of guitar - Chet Atkins . I think George Harrison had one also. Can u guys confirm ?
Joe seems so genuine with a love for life.
Adorable
Well they sure got the right guy to demo this gem. But it is kinda expensive ...
dang that was an awesome rendition of sleepwalk. dang I'd love a tutorial video on that but I will be copying this..
It sounds to be based on the Brian Setzer version. So instead you should learn the Brian Setzer version.
1959 everything seems to be prized. It was the first year after rock'n roll had died. All these 1959 amps, guitars and cars were built in 1958 in anticipation the music was going to live on.
The Gretsch rep said a 1 7/8" nut, but the specs listed here and on the website say 1 3/4".
He did - its driving me crazy I want to buy the 1 7/8" but can only find 1.75" I play lots of Chet stuff and want the original but good luck finding them for reasonable.
These pickups are supposed to be Supertrons according to Gretsch's website, but Joe says they're HT Plus and Powertron pickups. So what are they really supposed to be?
The bridge pickup is a TV Jones Classic Plus, the neck pickup is a Supertron
What is the song Greg opens with? It is on the tip of my tongue, but just can't get it.
19MarkZ Sleepwalk
what amp?
Which song is he playing in the beginning?
A jazzy version of Sleepwalk.
*_SWIVEL HERE_*
what would a Greg Koch model look like?
What about a Tele? ;-)
Is gretsch still owned by fender because idk man, i well example fender made a hollow body electric with but with the fender name on it
And I once typed I like a nice dirty gretsch more on a fender custom shop post on their instagram and they deleted my comment
to clear things up fender doesnt own gretsch fender distributes gretsch guitars
Greg must be of some size; I thought at first he was playing a duo jet or a penguin 🐧.
Someone please step in and slap Greg if he doesn't turn that reverb OFF!
I cant believe they didn't get close ups on the finish of these Chet Atkins models. They look like they are black. Whats up with that?
hillary clinton disliked this video.
@Krisitan Sterjo More like Israel
That gretsch guy is like a desperate car salesman. Flop sweat 😰