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Eilítið um Carvin

Carvin er merki sem fleiri mættu kannski þekkja, þarna er um að ræða gítar/bassa/magnara framleiðanda sem hefur lengi framleitt hágæða hljóðfæri á hreint fáránlega lágu verði, margir kannast við Carvin í sambandi við Jason Becker/Steve Vai/Frank Zappa. Carvin Fyrirtækið byrjaði að framleiða hljóðfæri árið 1950 og því engir nýgræðingar í þessum bransa.
Árin 1976 til 1977 byrjar Carvin svo að framleiða gítara og bassa eins og við þekkjum þá í dag.

http://www.carvinmuseum.com/decade/76-guitars.html

Tekið af Carvin.com

Since 1946 Carvin has been building and selling high quality and highly regarded musical instrument products direct to the consumer. Founded in 1946 by Lowell Kiesel, Carvin started by selling guitar pickups that became the favorites of country and guitar instrumental heroes of the day. Surf music legends, The Ventures, used Carvin pickups in their Moserite guitars in the ‘60s. The product line also include Hawaiian lap steel guitars as well as unique double neck designs, guitar amps and bass amps. Carvin is a true part of American musical history as the company predates the invention of rock n’ roll!

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The 80's must have been an exciting time to work at Carvin. The decade started with two basic models, the DC150 and CM140, plus the newly redesigned doubleneck series, and only two finishes, but by the time the decade ended, there were 11 models, a variety of finishes, electronics, hardware and other options. Many of the design features and construction methods would still be in use on modern Carvins - things such as neck-thru design, premium ebony fingerboards, and the DC200 body style would remain popular and in use to this day, which proved that Carvin was on the right track when they pioneered many of these items. Other features, such as bright pearl colors, doublenecks, and the V guitars would make a huge splash, sell like crazy, then begin to fade away as the decade ended.

The 90's saw many changes at Carvin. The X and V guitars and doubleneck guitars would be retired after their successful run in the 80's. However, many new models would be added - the Bolt, Holdsworth, TL series, 7-stringers, hollowbodies and acoustic/electrics. On top of that, Carvin officially launched the Custom Shop, which allowed customers to create their own guitar from thousands of combinations of woods, finishes, hardware and electronics.

The marketing would go through a variety of changes, as well, from landscape-oriented guitar-only catalogs, to the modern, smaller catalog in use today.

In 1996, Carvin would celebrate it's 50th Anniversary, and would release an Anniversary model guitar to commemorate the event. Also in the 90's, Carvin would pack up, and relocate to their current state-of-the-art facilities in San Diego.

Carvin was far ahead of the curve with their Internet presence. As early as 1996, they had a website, which was originally called CarvinGuitars.com . Although this site was primarily a marketing tool, used to show basic products and collect catalog requests, it was more than many manufacturers were doing at the time.

This little thing called the Internet took off in the latter part of the nineties, and Carvin started to fully exploit it in 1999, and by the two-thousands, it was a full-blown marketing tool. The original website, carvinguitars.com, was primarily a marketing tool, used to collect catalog requests. But in ‘99, Carvin launched a fully interactive site featuring all their models, reviews, on-line ordering and many other features.

A big plus to the website was the listing of “Guitars-in-Stock”. Although Carvin is noted for building instruments that are custom ordered, they also build instruments to sell in their shops in southern California. So, there are usually a couple of hundred pre-built and ready ship instruments for those who have “buy fever”, and don’t want to wait the 2 months to have a custom built instrument.

One of the most revolutionary features on the new website was the Virtual Custom Shop. This was unique in the industry, and gave guitarists and bassists the ability to see what each model looked like, in any configuration of wood and finish. With over 50 finish/wood combinations, it was simply not practical to include pictures of every feasible combination in the catalog, but the Virtual Custom Shop allowed Carvin to show everything off.

2000 =http://www.carvinmuseum.com/decade/00-guitars.html

2001 =http://www.carvinmuseum.com/decade/01-guitars.html

2002 =http://www.carvinmuseum.com/decade/02-guitars.html

2003 =http://www.carvinmuseum.com/decade/03-guitars.html

2004 =http://www.carvinmuseum.com/decade/04-guitars.html

2005 =http://www.carvinmuseum.com/decade/05-guitars.html

2006 =http://www.carvinmuseum.com/decade/06-guitars.html

Carvin NAMM 2006

Thurs:
http://www.carvin.com/namm2006/?day=19

Fri:
http://www.carvin.com/namm2006/?day=20

Sat:
http://www.carvin.com/namm2006/?day=21

Sun:
http://www.carvin.com/namm2006/?day=22

Carvin hljóðfæraleikarar:

http://www.carvin.com/news.php

Takk fyrir, kannski svolítið mikið af c/p en þetta er bara til að vekja áhuga á þessum framleiðanda

Myndir af carvinum

http://www.carvinmuseum.com/playersgallery.html
http://www.carvinmuseum.com/collections.html

[Notanda eytt] fyrir 18 árum, 9 mánuðum

Svari eytt af stjórnanda

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odestra fyrir 18 árum, 9 mánuðum

það finnst engum það cool..

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[Notanda eytt] fyrir 18 árum, 9 mánuðum

mér finnst það.

annars hef ég ekki prófað Carvin gítara ennþá.

þarf að fara að líta á þetta mál

annarrs, góð grein.

ég er bæði að tala við þig og höfundinn þannig að ekki væla að ég senti þer þetta svar.

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HlynurS fyrir 18 árum, 9 mánuðum

Já, fín grein. En eins og þú sagðir þá er þetta of mikið c/p að mínu mati, gerir það leiðinlegra að lesa og auk þess eru þúsund linkar á þessu hjá þér…

Ekkert diss neitt, mjög fín grein, en hefði ekki verið betra að bara vinna úr upplýsingunum sem þú fannst og skrifa heilsteyptann texta?

…djók

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E666 fyrir 18 árum, 9 mánuðum

geri þetta á 15 mín nennti ekki að gera eitthvað voða voða vildi bara benda á framleiðandan.

Ekkert diss neitt, mjög fín grein, en hefði ekki verið betra að bara vinna úr upplýsingunum sem þú fannst og skrifa heilsteyptann texta?

tja ef ég hefði tíma, er í töluvert erfiðu námi og mikið af áhugamálum þannig að…

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HlynurS fyrir 18 árum, 9 mánuðum

Já, skil þig. Þessir gítarar sem þeir búa til eru náttúrulega algjör snilld.

…djók

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tele fyrir 18 árum, 9 mánuðum

why, i just want to ask why, en fjandi vel upsett grein samt

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LazerbeamJesuz fyrir 18 árum, 9 mánuðum

mér finnst akkurat á síðunni þeirra þegar maður fer í custom guitars, ef maður kaupir sér gítar þar getur maður egilega valið allt á gítarinn sjálfur. og þetta kostar ekki það mikið.

er að pæla í einum 7 strengja gaur, og með öllu sem e´g vill er það mesta lagi í kringum 800-900ish.

sem er frábært verð fyrir svona

“Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society.” - Rush Limbaugh

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E666 fyrir 18 árum, 9 mánuðum

hvernig myndiru þá fá hann til íslands ? :/ ekki shippa þeir direct ?

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LazerbeamJesuz fyrir 18 árum, 9 mánuðum

er ekki búinn að kynna mér það, en það er alltaf hægt að redda sér.

annað hvort þekkir maður einhvern sem á heima í usa, eða einhvern sem er að fara til usa.

eða bara shopusa

“Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society.” - Rush Limbaugh

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HlynurS fyrir 18 árum, 9 mánuðum

Ertu kannski að spá í DC747 ?

hehe, ég er einmitt að spá í að fá mér eitt stykki þannig í (vonandi) nánni framtíð :P

…djók

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pazzini fyrir 18 árum, 9 mánuðum

hvar ferðu í custom guitars?

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LazerbeamJesuz fyrir 18 árum, 9 mánuðum

fórstu inná síðunna?

þú ferð bara í guitars og velur custom guitars en ekki in stock guitars

“Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society.” - Rush Limbaugh