Dead Note On A 64 Gibson Johnny Smith

[apgrower]

anyone have any ideas? on the 11th fret on the D string, the note is C#. it doesnt sound right. almost like there is something damping the string. it wont ring properly. this does not happen on any other strings anywhere on the guitar. the strings are thomastick-infeld flatwounds. not totally new maybe three weeks and not much use. anyone?

[Woodenspoke]

check for a high fret

[soapbarstrat]

Doesn't surprise me. At the 12th, you've got a big fat pearl inlay, which sometimes caused uneven fret-board spots at production time. You've also got the neck/body joint happening right under there, which can make a rise in the board (especially on a guitar that old). High fret likely too.

All of which is fixable. But anytime someone is named "John Smith", they're likely hiding something.

[apgrower]

Doesn't surprise me. At the 12th, you've got a big fat pearl inlay, which sometimes caused uneven fret-board spots at production time. You've also got the neck/body joint happening right under there, which can make a rise in the board (especially on a guitar that old). High fret likely too.

All of which is fixable. But anytime someone is named "John Smith", they're likely hiding something.

hey i was in a car in highschool and we were stopped by the police, there was a green a brown a jones and doe, eddie to be exact but the cop had us up against the car until he saw our driving license. then he relented. so if a john smith had been in the car we would still be in jailhttp://projectguitar.ibforums.com/style_images/1/folder_post_icons/icon4.gif

[killemall8]

That messes with my head that there is a way to link to just a white page with a smiley...

[~frank]

All of which is fixable. But anytime someone is named "John Smith", they're likely hiding something.

Johnny Smith was one of my earliest guitar heros. Here's a quick history lesson: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Smith

An extremely diverse musician, Johnny Smith was equally at home playing in the famous Birdland jazz club or sight reading scores in the orchestral pit of the New York Philharmonic. From Schoenberg to Gershwin to originals, Smith was one of the most versatile guitarists of the 1950s.

Smith's playing is characterized by closed-position chord voicings and rapidly ascending lines (reminiscent of Django, but more diatonic than chromatically-based). From those famous 1952 sides and in to the 1960s he recorded for the Roost label, on whose releases his reputation mainly rests. Mosaic Records has issued the majority of them in an 8CD set.[3]

His most critically acclaimed album was Moonlight in Vermont (one of Down Beat magazine's top two jazz records for 1952, featuring saxophonists Stan Getz and Zoot Sims).

His most famous musical composition is the tune "Walk Don't Run", written for a 1955 recording session as counter-melody to the chord changes of "Softly, As in the Morning Sunrise". Another guitarist, Chet Atkins, covered the song. Some musicians who became The Ventures heard the Atkins version, simplified it and sped it up, and recorded it in 1960. The Ventures' version went to #2 on the Billboard Top 100 for a week in September 1960.

Johnny Smith stepped out of the public eye/ear in the 1960s, having moved to Colorado in 1958 to teach and run a music store and to raise his daughter after the death of his second wife.

[soapbarstrat]

Here's a quick history lesson: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Smith

Ok, thanks for clueing me in, Sheldon Cooper, um, I mean Frank.