Merry Christmas to you all ! This year has been rough for all of us, so i wish a better 2021 for everyone !


Today's acoustic Standard is the number 1 : indeed it's the first song i've played alone to post on social medias back in 2013, with bad recording, bad camera, bad singing etc and i unfortunately lost it (actually i didn't, but it felt really far from the quality of the content on the channel lately so i took a morning to do another version). I felt in love with the tune in the album Chet Baker Sings, great singing, great atmosphere, i love it ! I'm not 100 % satisfied with today's version, but it's the challenge of posting 2 videos a week as i've been doing lately, not everything is perfect, but hopefully all the work on this channel might have improved my playing over time... I hope the gigging situation will be better, i therefore plan to take back the frequency of acoustic standards to one video a week in 2021. Anyways, thanks a lot for following the channel, encouraging in the comments etc. Its very time consuming and i don't earn anything from this, i'm just doing what i thought was important to provide a database of sound samples of acoustic archtops, since i thought the web didn't have enough of these to my taste ! But as i always mention, no 2 guitars with the same specs sound the same, so it's best for you to try before buying ! For those who'd like to support me : www.paypal.me/acousticstandards


The song was composed in 1930 by Chase/Robin/Whiting and i'm playing it on a 1948 Gibson L12p. The guitar originally had a rosewood bridge on which the lower part had feet like on ES175, and i had my luthier build a full ebony birdge instead, to sound a little fuller (you can compare with AS#83 and AS#88, although the strings and the pick are not the same... pretty far from a scientific test, but you might get an idea of the tone change).


The guitar is strung with nickel strings round wound gauge 12, i'm playing a purple dunlop 1.5mm pick this time, and the sound is captured with the Neumann TLM 103.


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I've decided to take a couple of student for online classes so hit me up if you're interested. Contact and info : acousticstandardsinparis@gmail.com

I haven't recorded albums in the style of those acoustic standards, but i have 2 albums on bandcamp with my Django tribute Quartet : [ Ссылка ]

For those who’d like to check the channel with the Django work with my 4tet :
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For those who wonder if all these guitars are mine, the answer is no since most come from private collections from friends in Europe.
I’m always looking get my personal guitar collection to evolve so don’t hesitate to drop me an email if you’re selling your vintage archtop or if you want to trade etc.

Stay safe

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