AIR -- Ashbory Internet Resource
Contributed by Brock Frazier -- February 25, 2003
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LargeSound.com is the replacement for
AIR, the Ashbory Internet Resource. AIR was a long scrappy page with the basic
information people need to know but even more importantly, it was a factor in
the return of the instrument. The last real update to the site, located at
http://www.steamroller.com/ashbory/, was likely performed sometime in 1999,
shortly after I played my first DeArmond. It's interesting to compare my
initial impressions to now since I've owned a DeArmond for a while. I'm less
convinced of the Guild's construction superiority, the tuner disappointment
dealt largely with the fact I was anticipating enclosed tuners, and the
straplocks (and tuners) on the early DeArmonds aren't the same as the later
ones up to the time of the name changeover which are all black. The Guild
strings are superior, which was immediately obvious.
I actually designed two different versions of the "new, larger AIR" before coming up with LargeSound.com. Not completely inconsistent with elements in the Ashbory Story, I was preoccupied with other things and the poor Ashbory web site replacement was put on the back burner. Here's the page from sometime reasonably soon after the release of the DeArmond Ashbory in 1999. |
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