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Probag These are just the thing for gigging at that Greenpeace rally or vegan festival. Probag |
Clam Case These cases are made from foam and plastic cardboard-like material. It might not sound like much protection but I've got a mountain bike shipping box made out of the same stuff and its worked great for several cross country trips. Its been quite durable. CaseXtreme |
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Tribal Planet Cases I thought that these cases were extremely well made. Since the outer shell is somewhat flexible they actually protect the contents better than a hard case in the event of a fall. The energy is absorbed and distributed rather than resulting in a sharp hit. Tibal Planet |
AMT Electronics What you need are guitar stomp box effects manufactured in West Siberia. In the text around the bypass switch it says "Siberia Space Program".
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Rainbow Strings You can get a rainbow-colored set of strings for your acoustic or electric. If you don't want the full spectrum you can also order complete sets in a single color. I would imagine that the rainbow sets might be good for beginning players. Bridgeport Insulated Wire |
Ice Pix Stix You can forget about ever being without a pick again as long as you stick a load of these to your guitar. You can also forget about looking cool on stage, and isn't that why you learned to play guitar in the first place? Ice Pix |
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Shark Tooth thumb picks It's like a wetsuit for your thumb pick. The little bit of neoprene wraps around your thumb and holds the pick at just the right place. Strum 'N Comfort |
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Awe-In-One Picks Here's a company that has reinvented the guitar pick. In all my years perusing NAMM I don't think I've seen more than a dozen companies who have reinvented the guitar pick. Awe-In-One Enterprise |
Stash Picks Reinvention at every turn, that's NAMM for you. At least these guys are offering an interesting array of shapes. Stash Picks |
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Handmaster Plus As strange as this looks it's actually pretty cool. Unlike other grip strengthening devices this exercises your hand closing and opening. It's important to keep those two muscle groups in balance. Davitt & Hamser (800) 999-5558 |
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Lehle Switcher I'd like to say that I was attracted to this product because of its true bypass, gold plated relays or its ability to be remote controlled via MIDI. It was actually the mushroom cap foot switches. Lehle Gitarrentechnik |
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Noteblocks & Magnotes These look like a couple of excellent tools for teaching music. I like the fact that the depth of the pieces corresponds to the note value. Note Logic LLC |
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Krank Amps Most amplifier cabinets are built with plywood, not these babies. Nothing but solid wood here. Where were these last year when I put together the Burning Collection? Krank Amplification |
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Phil Jones Piranhas Who would have thought that 5" speakers could put out so much low frequency sound? I was also pleasantly surprised with the little battery-powered briefcase amp, it reaches down to about 50hz. Phil Jones Bass |
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Sound Enhancer This is one of those "why didn't I think of that?" products. You put your open back combo amp on one of these and it takes what's coming out the back and redirects it forward. This about doubles the volume and greatly increases the low frequency response. Sound Enhancer Corporation |
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Dickies accessories More stuff that you don't quite know that you need. A pick pocket and a little guitar-shaped coin purse. Yak Pak |
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Old Dog Guitar Stand They tout this as a "virtually unbreakable" guitar stand. That's probably because they knew that same guy in elementary school who used to go out of his way to break those unbreakable combs. These are made of Lexan and easily disassemble into three pieces. Old Dog LLC |
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