#1: Peter Bernstein's guitar
Posted on 2005-11-18 22:11:55 by Max Leggett
Any idea what guitar Bernstein is playing on his DVD? Nice looking piece of
wood.
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#2: Re: Peter Bernstein's guitar
Posted on 2005-11-18 22:35:53 by Pat Smith
I think he plays a Zeidler
Max Leggett wrote:
> Any idea what guitar Bernstein is playing on his DVD? Nice looking piece of
> wood.
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#3: Re: Peter Bernstein's guitar
Posted on 2005-11-19 00:21:23 by Bill Williams
I'd been wondering about this for a while and once I got the DVD spent
a bit of time craning my neck trying to see.
Guess its the Zeidler.
Downbeat July 2002
Peter Bernstein, who says he's not a gear head, was just looking for
the right guitar when he met up with John Zeidler. The Philadelphia
guitar maker offered to make one for Bernstein (who had previously
owned a Gibson ES-175 and a Gibson L-5, among others) but told him
there was a two-year wait. "I wasn't even sure because it was a big
investment and it was like getting a mail-order bride," he says. Then a
friend told him about a hollow-body Zeidler archtop that was for sale.
It was love at first strum.
"It's a very live instrument," says Bernstein, who buys John Pearse
strings (14-52) in bulk. "It has a lot of sustain and a beautiful
acoustic sound. It's the best instrument I've ever owned. It's in my
house and is the first thing I see every morning. It looks like nothing
else: a dark spruce top that almost looks like the color of a bass. I
call it Brown Betty. You have to have a relationship with it. You care
for it and it'll treat you well. If you play like an ass, it'll let you
know."
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#4: Re: Peter Bernstein's guitar
Posted on 2005-11-19 00:32:27 by Max Leggett
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> Guess its the Zeidler.
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>If you play like an ass, it'll let you know."
Oh. I better not get one then.
:-) It's a gorgeous looking guitar, big fat clean tone, and Bernstein
certainly doesn't play like an ass.
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#5: Re: Peter Bernstein's guitar
Posted on 2005-11-19 00:55:08 by Bill Williams
Actually now that I look at the headstock logo on the Zeidler website
I'm not so sure that's what he plays on the DVD:
<a href="http://www.zeidler.com/catalog.htm" target="_blank">http://www.zeidler.com/catalog.htm</a>
(maybe he got tired of having such an outspoken guitar)
Bill
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#6: Re: Peter Bernstein's guitar
Posted on 2005-11-19 01:07:40 by Max Leggett
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> Actually now that I look at the headstock logo on the Zeidler website
> I'm not so sure that's what he plays on the DVD:
> <a href="http://www.zeidler.com/catalog.htm" target="_blank">http://www.zeidler.com/catalog.htm</a>
> (maybe he got tired of having such an outspoken guitar)
>
No,you're right. That one he's playing in the DVD is a longer name and it
followed the curve ot the headstock. Buscarino came to mind just because
it's the right length, but that's not it, either. Doesn't much matter: I
think he has Special Finger Potion.
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#7: Re: Peter Bernstein's guitar
Posted on 2005-11-19 02:11:03 by steinbergerstyler
Kids, it's a Zeidler, unless PB is wrong about who made his guitar.
He's been playing the same guitar for the last, what, 4-5 years (post
L5 Wes)?
I actually don't think that what's on the headstock on his guitar is
script at all - there are a couple of points in the video where the
camera gets a pretty good shot of the headstock and all I see is a
banner-looking thing.
Anyway, Zeidler sadly died a few years ago, presumably he just had
different logo designs.
Max Leggett wrote:
> "Bill Williams" <<a href="mailto:bill.williams@mail.telepac.pt" target="_blank">bill.williams@mail.telepac.pt</a>> wrote in message
> news:<a href="mailto:1132358108.327488.288720@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com..." target="_blank">1132358108.327488.288720@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...</a>
> > Actually now that I look at the headstock logo on the Zeidler website
> > I'm not so sure that's what he plays on the DVD:
> > <a href="http://www.zeidler.com/catalog.htm" target="_blank">http://www.zeidler.com/catalog.htm</a>
> > (maybe he got tired of having such an outspoken guitar)
> >
>
> No,you're right. That one he's playing in the DVD is a longer name and it
> followed the curve ot the headstock. Buscarino came to mind just because
> it's the right length, but that's not it, either. Doesn't much matter: I
> think he has Special Finger Potion.
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#8: Re: Peter Bernstein's guitar
Posted on 2005-11-19 05:38:38 by Max Leggett
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> Kids, it's a Zeidler, unless PB is wrong about who made his guitar.
> He's been playing the same guitar for the last, what, 4-5 years (post
> L5 Wes)?
>
> I actually don't think that what's on the headstock on his guitar is
> script at all - there are a couple of points in the video where the
> camera gets a pretty good shot of the headstock and all I see is a
> banner-looking thing.
Yeah, that's what I saw - nothing like the Zeidler logo on the website, but
like you say, it could be as simple as a logo change. Either that or Peter
got his name embossed on the headstock in day-glo LEDs so he could pull the
chicks. Difficult to say ..........
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