Chords for Allan Holdsworth Talks about his Headless Kiesel Guitars

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[Em] This [N] is me, Al.
_ _ I worked with the Cavern people for many, many, many years. _ _
And they just came out with this new version with a new company, Kiesel.
So now this is the next generation of this particular guitar.
_ _ It's now going under the Kiesel brand.
It's an exquisite guitar.
It's absolutely fabulous.
I love it.
Beautiful machine.
_ And so where do I start?
Well, I'll start at the top.
Okay.
So first of all, there _ were a lot of frets that were made with stainless steel or nickel.
And some people like the stainless steel.
Some people like the nickel.
I actually like both.
But these are kind of in between.
This fret _ is like a special alloy.
And it just so happens it came out golden colored, which is very pretty.
So it kind of looks good with the nice abalone inlays and the color of the blue and even the red guitar.
And it's a little softer than stainless, but much harder than nickel.
So it's buttery, very slippy.
There's no grinding or anything.
You're not going to hear any scraping if you do any bending.
So it's really, really cool.
It's a tall fret, which I like.
And _ then the next thing, going working on down to the bottom of the guitar, we came
up with the new pickup, which is six individual pull pieces instead of the multiple pull pieces
that Calvin used to use for many years, which were also cool.
But I like this much, much better.
It's a beautiful sounding pickup.
It has the _ enameled wire, the old style enameled wire, which was used in the original vintage
pickups.
And it really makes a big difference.
I've actually been able to back my pickup off a little bit further away from the string
because I found it gave a little bit, well, even more dynamics, especially if you're using
it for kind of a distorted sound.
This one is slightly more chambered than the original, but just not very much.
Just enough to give the guitar a little bit more dynamic, in my opinion.
So the original one was chambered also, but this is chambered more so.
_ And I think the balance of the way they've got the chambering now and the combination
of this pickup and the fret wire, _ _ well, _ _ I like it.
The thing that's lovely is [D] the dynamic thing of the_ _ _
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That usually with a regular, really heavy bodied solid guitar, that is not [G] going to happen.
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The playability of the guitar is unbelievable.
It's awesome.
It's easy.
It's nice.
It's beautiful.
You've got to try one.
Give it a whirl.
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_ _ This is a full-sized guitar.
It's 25 and a half inch scale.
It's bigger than a Les Paul, even though it doesn't look it.
It is.
It's 25 and a half.
A Gibson's kind of relatively short scale.
And it's beautifully balanced.
When you wear it on the strap, it doesn't move.
You don't need to use your hand to hold it up.
It just sits right there on the strap.
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_ _ _ It's just beautiful.
I don't know.
I don't really know what to say.
You know, I'm not exactly Mr.
Spokesman, am I?
I don't think I'm going to be running for president [Gb] anytime soon.
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[C] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [B] You have to put one in your own hands.
I could sit here for two hours and noodle and it won't make any difference.
It's going to be an Alan Noodle Fest as opposed to _ _ _ having you learn about this actual particular instrument.
It's a beautiful instrument, as you can see.
I'm extremely happy with it.
And there you have it.
Bob's your uncle. _ _
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