Post by t-bob on Jun 27, 2007 13:17:59 GMT -5
From The Podium newsletter... 
No doubt an amazing guitar, but please...
The Tippin Crescendo is a grand concert shape guitar by Bill Tippin, one of the very finest luthiers in the world. This instrument has the highest grade, straight grained, bear clawed, quartersawed Brazilian rosewood with a moon harvested alpine spruce top. Moon Harvested Spruce is spruce that was harvested and handled during the last quarter of the waning moon in the winter after the qrowing period of the tree has stopped. This is a traditional practice in the lumber industry that dates back for centuries. Stradivarius was well aware of "moonwood" and believed that it was stiffer and more resistant to moisture changes than non-moonwood.
I thought moon harvested meant that they cut it at night because they didn't want to get caught doing it, but I'm told it's better because the sap is down and therefore the wood has less resinous material left in the wood cells when dried and I think it gets a lot of real good mojo, too.
Be that as it may, it is a visual work of art, subtle, elegant with the best woods available. However, its lovely aesthics are nothing compared to its fabulous voice and high performance feel. This instrument has a very powerful, rich and focused bass, great balance and great volume. The Bravado also has great complexity and clarity up the neck. As powerful and phenomenally rich as the bass is, the midrange and trebles stand out putting it with the finest guitars we have come across....ever. Even as a new instrument, this guitar has a pulsing "reverb" quality to its voice that most guitars do not develop if they are played for 50 years. This is one of the best instruments at any price that we have had in our store (and we have been selling fine guitars since 1959).
No doubt an amazing guitar, but please...
The Tippin Crescendo is a grand concert shape guitar by Bill Tippin, one of the very finest luthiers in the world. This instrument has the highest grade, straight grained, bear clawed, quartersawed Brazilian rosewood with a moon harvested alpine spruce top. Moon Harvested Spruce is spruce that was harvested and handled during the last quarter of the waning moon in the winter after the qrowing period of the tree has stopped. This is a traditional practice in the lumber industry that dates back for centuries. Stradivarius was well aware of "moonwood" and believed that it was stiffer and more resistant to moisture changes than non-moonwood.
I thought moon harvested meant that they cut it at night because they didn't want to get caught doing it, but I'm told it's better because the sap is down and therefore the wood has less resinous material left in the wood cells when dried and I think it gets a lot of real good mojo, too.
Be that as it may, it is a visual work of art, subtle, elegant with the best woods available. However, its lovely aesthics are nothing compared to its fabulous voice and high performance feel. This instrument has a very powerful, rich and focused bass, great balance and great volume. The Bravado also has great complexity and clarity up the neck. As powerful and phenomenally rich as the bass is, the midrange and trebles stand out putting it with the finest guitars we have come across....ever. Even as a new instrument, this guitar has a pulsing "reverb" quality to its voice that most guitars do not develop if they are played for 50 years. This is one of the best instruments at any price that we have had in our store (and we have been selling fine guitars since 1959).
