Technical Guitar FAQs and Digests

Compiled and edited by Tim Stanley (tjs@eecs.umich.edu) from alt.guitar. rec.music.makers.guitar rec.guitar.amps rec.music.makers.builders.

• First, everything is constantly under construction...
• I keep several FAQs related to technical aspect of guitar playing. These are my responses to FAQs about which I think I have useful knowledge. These are the evolution of my standard responses to the newsgroup over the years.
• I have assembled digests of unedited useful FAQs and posts from the past, chronologically ordered, and properly attributed. Please note the following:
• If something of value was posted to the net, I informally assume that permission is granted to archive it here. If I am mistaken with respect to your posting, please inform me.
• I keep dates and names with these miscellaneous posts. Much of this info is older, before I knew I would be maintaining FAQs and digests. I worry that the date/author info has been inadvertently munged (but I don't think it has). My apologies if you do not get appropriately acknowledged, please let me know.
• When I started, I only kept posts what were interesting to me. Now, that I have www'd these digests, I try to keep technical posts that fit the theme of the digests. I only include new information; I rarely include inflamatory postings as their archival could only serve to embarass the author. Fortunately for the internet community, there is a direct and distinct correlation between valuable information and the quality of presentation in all postings. This simplifies things.
• Some FAQs are created and maintained by other people and the most recent version I have seen is included here for your convenience. I can not guarantee that this is the absolute latest version.
• I make no representation that this information will be useful to you, or that it is technically correct. It is simply a compendium of net wisdom that I have found useful.
• Most information is in textual ascii form. This enables users with minimal knowledge and configurations to easily get the data.