Thursday, April 27, 2017

24 hours ago

The world of Internet has given us the chance to have a glimpse of what's going on around the world. I just stumbled upon images that Reuters captured in the last 24 hours. Let me share a few of them.

We start with Indonesia. This one shows Punk community members dance during a punk music festival in Bandung, Indonesia West Java province.

And in the Philippines, a girl takes part in a local Lenten ritual called "Moriones" in Mogpog, Marinduque, Philippines.

A stuntman rides a motorcycle inside the "Well of Death" attraction during a fair in Bhaktapur, Nepal.

Further afield in Europe, the Borussia Dortmund team bus is seen after an explosion near their hotel before their Champions League quarter-final first leg game against AS Monaco in Dortmund, Germany.

A crow flies towards a tree in a blooming rapeseed field on a spring morning in Vufflens-la-Ville near Lausanne, Switzerland.

And back to this part of the world, Reuters has this shot of the sun set in Pyongyang, North Korea.



Well, hope you've had a pleasant enough 24-hours-ago. Would you like to share it? Use the Comments below.

Monday, April 17, 2017

Gibson Hummingbird Pro Acoustic Electric Guitar

If you are in the market for a guitar, an acoustic-electric guitar I mean, here's one to check out, gibson hummingbird pro at guitarcenter.com.

First introduced in 1960 as Gibson's earliest square-shoulder dreadnought guitar it has evolved into the Gibson Hummingbird Pro acoustic-electric guitar, touted as a true legend of acoustic instruments, a favorite among legends like Gram Parsons and Keith Richards.


Let's take a look at the features of this legend of a guitar:

Features
•Body style: Square shoulder dreadnought
•Solid Sitka spruce top
•Solid mahogany back and sides
•1930s Gibson X-bracing pattern
•Rosewood fingerboard with mother-of-pearl parallelogram inlays
•Rosewood bridge
•Dovetail neck-to-body joint bonded with hide glue
•25-1/2" scale
•Vintage Gibson 1960s thin line neck profile
•No. of frets: 21/14 open
•Fingerboard inlays: Split parallelogram
•Nut width: 1.68"
•Binding: White
•Rosette: Parallel rings
•Bridge: Rosewood
•Pickguard: Tortoise
•Finish: Vintage sunburst (nitrocellulose)
•Tuners: Grovers Rotomatics
•Electronics: L.R. Baggs Element ES
•Case: Hardshell

Unfortunately this piece of musical beauty only ships to the United States. So if you are in the US and looking to acquire a Gibson Hummingbird Pro Acoustic Electric Guitar, you are in a sweet spot. Do check it out!