AS#55 - Bye bye blackbird - vintage 16 inches 1934 Gibson L7

Today I’m presenting a new guitar (acoustically at least) over the standard « Bye Bye Blackbird ». The standard was composed in 1926 by Ray Henderson and Mort Dixon. I can’t help thinking of Chet Baker when I think of this song, and I therefore have tried a little Scat just for fun, so please forgive the mediocrity. I’m playing a 1934 Gibson L7 16 inches. It’s the last year of the 16 inches lower bout, which is suppose to make it the same as my 34 L5 but less fancier in appointments (but the sound is way different and doesn’t have the big punch and volume of the L5, although it has a really interesting voice still). Also this guitar works really well with the floating pickup, you can hear it in AS#5-2 over a Wes montgomery Solo, plugged in a 1968 Princeton Reverb. The guitar is strung with Thomastik Swing strings, I think it may be the first guitar on the channel with flat wounds on it, as I intend to play mainly acoustically and those seams to work best with the pickup. I’m playing a dunlop purple pi