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Post subject: Jaguar Baritone Special HH
Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2010 8:39 pm
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Thoughts?

Best uses/style?

Thanks!

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Post subject: Re: Jaguar Baritone Special HH
Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 9:26 am
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RickyD wrote:
Thoughts?

Best uses/style?

Thanks!

RickyD


Just out of the factory the action needed tightening.

With no other guitar on stage, cutting through a large combo or a horn section, the Fender Baritone Special HH might work well in its intended role at baritone, but I couldn't find a need for the baritone sound it generated.

Then I put Ernie Ball Super Slinky Pink strings on it and uptuned it to normal "tenor" EADGBE tuning.

HELL YEAH.

With slinky strings in EADGBE tuning, the string response feels like a regular-scale guitar.

If you play the Fender Baritone Special HH gently with no effects, it sounds like a beautiful, elegant, clean electric/acoustic hybrid, but if you play with any aggressiveness it demands the attention of the room.

I call it "The Nurse Ratched of Guitars" - it speaks over and above the chaos of everyone else's crazy talk and commands you to TAKE YOUR MEDICATION NOW. When the Fender Baritone Special HH is unhappy, everyone is unhappy. If the audience doesn't want to take their medication orally, it arranges for the audience to take it some other way.

Would buy again. Would replace if stolen.

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Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 6:26 pm
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Thanks Basil!

Since it showed up yesterday your response is just what I was looking for. It's been in my hands pretty well non-stop all day today trying to get it figured out.

I think it's going to be a pretty good weapon in my arsenal. Should work for a lot of Johnny Cash and Rockabilly stuff.

I appreciate the inputs!

Anybody else? Basil and I can't be the only people that own one?

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RickyD

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