Speaker Size

[walterw]

That’s good, because that’s how this all got started with post #117

BTW, much of Hendrix's tone was the result of using a right handed Strat strung upside down. Many righties adopted 'upside down' headstocks to get that tone...

i suspect they all just did it because it looked cool

It mainly had to do with the reversed bridge pickup, which on a strat is angled closer to the bridge on the treble side (so backwards the way Hendrix played them).

i'm inclined to agree here, inasmuch as there is any real sound difference at all;

the reversed bridge pickup makes for a slightly twangier low E and a slightly fatter hi E (both good things in my book) when you play on the bridge pickup.

a reversed headstock might feel a little different, but i doubt there's much of a sound change.

 

[will33]

i suspect they all just did it because it looked cool

Maybe, but it does make a bit of a difference, at least in feel.


the reversed bridge pickup makes for a slightly twangier low E and a slightly fatter hi E (both good things in my book) when you play on the bridge pickup.

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I'd say this has the most to do with it. The thing just plain feels/sounds different. I posted something about this earlier, but due to our current state of editation/hurt feelingsness.....took it down.

 

[billfitzmaurice]

a reversed headstock might feel a little different, but i doubt there's much of a sound change.

My information came from the source, who I met in 1969 on my way back home after spending a few days in Bethel NY.

 

[will33]

There's definitely a change in feel, and thus a change in sound.....and no,....I've never crossed paths with the source.

 

[Joe Louvar]

experienced guitarist know purple haze can change anything

 

[will33]

Not only guitarists..

 

[Joe Louvar]

i suspect they all just did it because it looked cool

+1. If there were any real big sound advantages - all guitar makers would be making guitars that way.

 

[Joe Louvar]

Will, I wish you would have left your post on the top of this page - I about died lol - it was way to funny. Anyway, have a good one bro.

 

[will33]

Gotta be correct politically ya know....wouldn't want to step on .1%'s feelings...

 

[Joe Louvar]

Yeah, you're right - but it was funny. Cheers.

 

[walterw]

My information came from the source, who I met in 1969 on my way back home after spending a few days in Bethel NY.

now that sounds like a story!

i mostly saw reversed headstocks on '80s superstrats played by guys with poodle hair

(aside from the occasional hip '70s player like joe perry or steve miller.)

 

[will33]

now that sounds like a story!

i mostly saw reversed headstocks on '80s superstrats played by guys with poodle hair

(aside from the occasional hip '70s player like joe perry or steve miller.)

That $#!+ happened long before poodle hair.

 

[will33]

As long as we're on the topic of speakers.....these sound pretty good....

 

[dhsierra1]

think of guitar -or bass- strings as lower tensioned springs welded to higher tensioned ones. That's why trapeze bridged guitars sound and feel different than "hard-tailed" ones and reversed headstock guitars will have a slightly different feel than regular headstocks. Basic statics in engineering, it's rigidity of what the endpoints of the vibrating string are attached to: either immovable objects or objects that have some give when force is applied. And frequency comes into play as well but then you're getting into dynamics and it's too late in the evening for me to recall that stuff

 

[dspellman]

experienced guitarist know purple haze can change anything

Really?

 

[will33]

think of guitar -or bass- strings as lower tensioned springs welded to higher tensioned ones. That's why trapeze bridged guitars sound and feel different than "hard-tailed" ones and reversed headstock guitars will have a slightly different feel than regular headstocks. Basic statics in engineering, it's rigidity of what the endpoints of the vibrating string are attached to: either immovable objects or objects that have some give when force is applied. And frequency comes into play as well but then you're getting into dynamics and it's too late in the evening for me to recall that stuff

Makes total sense....

 

[Joe Louvar]

Really?

Photo caption - “look, the sky is falling!”

+1. too funny.

 

[will33]

I don't understand why the haybales ( or strawbales ), are purple.

 

[dhsierra1]

I don't understand why the haybales ( or strawbales ), are purple.

Purple. Hay(s).

 

[will33]

He does have an upside down headstock, like Jimi Hendrix, and a haircut sorta like that too.