Are they good guitars? I'm planning on buying a new guitar, and these seem pretty good. I mean, Eddie Van Halen has a great tone on it, Keith played it and sounded very good, and I saw Albert Lee play one at Bill Wyman's concert, which was one of the best tones I've ever heard. They're not the best looking guitars but seems to me they're pretty good. They're not too expensive either. Has anyone got one? Please share your opinions...

yes they are fine..but in germany very expensive.
but buy no copy of them , only the real one !!!
they start about 2000€ (2400 USD)
keith has the music man siluette Great !! (starts at 1500€)

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I own one, a Silhouette with HSH (humbucker-single coil-humbucker).
It's got a great burgundy-red shine-through body, black pickguard and an unbelievable, beautiful maple neck (Vogelaugenahorn, don't know the english word for it). It's a very good built, very flexible guitar (from blues to heavy metal, she's doin' it all very well) with a superb quality. And very compact also.

I bought it two years ago (already used, but in mint state) for 1.300,- €, incl. hsc. I'm not sure if I would sell it... Although I seldom play it, but it's such a great, good looking guitar, which has got a great feel while playing it. I'm playing rhythm nearly all the time, and for that I have - what else - a 68'er Fender Tele in open g tuning.

If you're interested, pls. tell me.

t.Riffs

Vogelaugenahorn = Birdseye maple

howcome I knew ,before you posted this, you play a Telecaster? hehe

I've had 2 Silhouettes over the years. Love 'em both.
Some people hate the look, but I've seen worse, much worse.
They're very light. I've never had a problem with the tone, etc...
In fact, you can get many tones with the Silhoutte. The pickups are great
and a great feel on the neck. I'm talking about the Silhouette,
nit the other MusicMan guitars.
Since it's got a smaller neck (even though it's 24 frets), I do recommend a lighter guage of strings on the lower stings as they tend do "thicken up."
It's worked well for me in recordings and gigs.
They are pretty few and far between and tend to be on the expensive side (new).
I use a Fende B-Bender tele now.
That being said, I would get a Fender Tele (American-made).
A little less expensive, and you can't go wrong with a Fender Telecaster.
You really can't.

I'm addicted to my stratocaster for over 20 years, I can do Tele things on it but I can't do Strat things on a Tele...

Would be interesting how you get the twang on a Strat...

twang?

That was exactly the answer I expected.

I have an Musicman evh shaped model. Same shape as the Wolfgang model he made later without MusicMan. Nice guitar to start out on. It is cheap, Nice tone for the price and can give me les paul humbucker sound and reasonable tele twang. Recomend it over cheap strats or les pauls

well English is not my native language indeed but what counts for me is that I can play everything I want on my strat, twang or no twang

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> Would be interesting how you get the twang on a
> Strat...


I've installed a set of kinman pickups on my strat. They came with a device in place of the lower tone pot that allowes you to use a 1 - 3 combination (and may more). Indeed it "twangs"

C

I go with TomK:
>That being said, I would get a Fender Tele (American-made).
A little less expensive, and you can't go wrong with a Fender Telecaster.
You really can't. <

absolutely