No Result
View All Result
Newsletter
Me Passions
  • Home
  • About US
    • Privacy and Copyright 2020
    • Disclaimer
  • Categories
    • Travel
    • Collectibles
    • Recipes
    • Meet and Greet
    • Music
    • Photoshop
    • Photography
    • Jewelry
    • Movie
  • Women
    • Women handbags
  • Men
    • Watches
    • T-shirts
  • Jewelry Sterling Silver
  • Learn Guitar Online
  • Acoustic Guitars
    • Aiersi Resonator Guitar
    • Resonator
    • Custom Electric Guitars
    • Guitar Amplifiers
    • Guitar Builder/Luthier Supply
  • Books
    • Food book
    • Movies & TV Shows
  • Music
    • Albums
    • Beatles vinyl
      • Beatles Memorabilia
    • Turntable Record Player
  • Shop
    • Basket
    • Checkout
  • Home
  • About US
    • Privacy and Copyright 2020
    • Disclaimer
  • Categories
    • Travel
    • Collectibles
    • Recipes
    • Meet and Greet
    • Music
    • Photoshop
    • Photography
    • Jewelry
    • Movie
  • Women
    • Women handbags
  • Men
    • Watches
    • T-shirts
  • Jewelry Sterling Silver
  • Learn Guitar Online
  • Acoustic Guitars
    • Aiersi Resonator Guitar
    • Resonator
    • Custom Electric Guitars
    • Guitar Amplifiers
    • Guitar Builder/Luthier Supply
  • Books
    • Food book
    • Movies & TV Shows
  • Music
    • Albums
    • Beatles vinyl
      • Beatles Memorabilia
    • Turntable Record Player
  • Shop
    • Basket
    • Checkout
No Result
View All Result
Me Passions

Tausch Guitars Montreux-oversized-T-style Demo and Review

by golfinger007
10th June 2021
in Vintage guitar
0
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter


Rainer Tausch is the guitar maker and mastermind of Tausch Guitars from Bavaria, Germany. Rainer has been a highly skilled guitar maker for 25 years, drawing on the tradition of classic S, T and LP style designs that have been enhanced with its contemporary features.

In December, Rainer sent us his brand new Montreux model for a demo.

.

Check out the demo from Henrik & Nicolai from V&R below. The guitar is also sold by Rainer Tausch through his V&R shop here

.

.

The Montreux model is best described as an oversized T-style, equipped with humbucking pickups from Häussel Pickups and with a two-tone sunburst finish reminiscent of the late 50s and early 60s sunburst Gibson finish. We think the choice of two-tone tobacco finish looks beautiful on this guitar. Enlarging the classic telephoto shape is a great idea and we found it worked great ergonomically as well.

.

.

The hardware is of the highest quality, the pickups sound great, and the overall feel is wonderful. The little details make a big difference. For example, the Häussel pickups screw through the top of the pickup like a P-90, eliminating the need for tabs on either side of the humbuckers and making the guitar look cleaner overall than traditional humbucker mounting methods. The headstock is slightly oversized together with the body, which gives you that certain extra mass for more string energy transfer and sustain. The Montreux has trim locomotive tuners, another concession to modern standards.

.

Exchange Montreux

.

From a gamer’s point of view, we found it to be a very inspiring guitar to play, and “play” is the key word here. It immediately gave us confidence to play freely, both with a pick and with our fingers in our right hand, and in both cases we found it to be a very responsive instrument with great sustain and sound. The swapbuckers are a calibrated ‘Slightly Hotter than Vintage’ set, in which the bridge pickup is only a hair stronger than the neck and each has asymmetrical coils. (If you’re unfamiliar with this term, it’s the case when a humbucking pickup is made with two different coils instead of two identical ones, and the result is usually a more nuanced sound, often with more focus on specific frequencies than the characteristics each coil contribute to the overall sound).

.

The 12-inch fingerboard radius is shallower than a traditional Telecaster, which gives you more freedom to bend strings and dance across the fingerboard, while the neck has a comfortable C-profile.

.

The Montreux feels smooth, and the body, although larger than a normal Telecaster, feels comfortable due to its thinner profile and ergonomic contours.

.

It’s a blues machine, it’s a fusion player, it’s a rock and roll devil, and maybe even a heavy monster. In other words, it is a very versatile guitar that was built with a focus on great quality and fascinating looks.

We will no doubt recommend this to anyone looking for a telephoto guitar with a significant twist.

.

Montreux specifications

Neck: maple | Fingerboard: plum woodNut: bone | Radius: “12”. | Tuner: Sperzel Trim Lok | The shape of the neck: C-profile | Neck width: nut 42mm / 12.51.5mm | Neck Thickness: 1. 21.6mm; 12.23.6 mm frets: 22 medium jumbo (Wagner No. 9684) | Scale: 648 mm / 25.5 in | Core: chestnut | Finish: Tobacco Burst / Polyurethane | Pickup: Set Häussel “Tauschbucker” Neck 9K ohm (5.54k ohm + 3.46k ohm) / bridge 10.7k ohm (6.43k ohm + 4.27k ohm) Controls: 2x volume, 2x tone (push-pull), 3-way toggle switch | Bridge: T-Tune bridge / short version with string-compensated brass saddles Hardware: Nickel / aged | Weight: 3.9 kg | Left-handed option: Yes | Price: € 4000, – including VAT. German VAT 19%.

.

.

Barter Guitars Montreux up close Body shot
Barter Guitars Montreux up close Body shot
Front of the headstock
Wooden buttons
Back of the headstock
Back
body shot

.

The Montreux was also used in a recent video for a demo of Carl Martin’s PlexiRanger pedal.

.

.

Written by our buddy Peter Hodgson from Iheartguitar and Nicolai & Henrik from V&R

V&R on social media:

.

Posted in Uncategorized |
Tags: Handmade Guitars, Häussel Pickups, IHeartGuitar, Luthiers, Peter Hodgson, Tausch Guitars, Tausch Guitars Montreux |





Tags: Vintage guitar
Previous Post

Installing a Fender LSR roller nut

Next Post

Defretting a bass guitar – Strange Guitarworks

golfinger007

Next Post
Defretting a bass guitar – Strange Guitarworks

Defretting a bass guitar - Strange Guitarworks

Search

No Result
View All Result

Newsletter

RECENT NEWS

Roasted Sweet Potatoes – A Beautiful Mess
Lifestyle

Roasted Sweet Potatoes – A Beautiful Mess

by golfinger007
26th March 2023
0

Roasted sweet potatoes are a tasty and healthy side dish that you can easily make in about 30 minutes....

Read more
#300 JUSTIN JOHNSON / ALYSSA EDWARDS  "RAW AND REAL – I Was Not Born To Blend In" Part 1

#300 JUSTIN JOHNSON / ALYSSA EDWARDS "RAW AND REAL – I Was Not Born To Blend In" Part 1

26th March 2023
Will One Company Destroy Wild Land for Profit? – Rolling Stone

Will One Company Destroy Wild Land for Profit? – Rolling Stone

26th March 2023
Chicken Pesto Pasta | The Recipe Critic

Chicken Pesto Pasta | The Recipe Critic

26th March 2023
How to change hair color in Photoshop 2021 – [ Easy Photoshop Tutorial ]

How to change hair color in Photoshop 2021 – [ Easy Photoshop Tutorial ]

25th March 2023

POPULAR POSTS

  • I meet the Youngest Titanic Survivor Millvina Dean!

    I meet the Youngest Titanic Survivor Millvina Dean!

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Get back to the Beatles with Sir Alan Parsons

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • 15 The Rock Movies You Slept on or Totally Forgot About

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • AMAZING Texas Sheet Cake | The Recipe Critic

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Film Noir Review: Where Danger Lives (1950)

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
Facebook Youtube Pinterest Instagram
Me Passions

About US
Welcome to our stimulating blog and journal!

Hello! Let me introduce my wife and myself. I am Stephane and I was really lucky to meet my wife, Mariolis, 14 years ago in the beautiful Caribbean island of Cuba. For some time now we have dreamed to create an on-line ‘dairy’ and blog to share aspire our life’s passions
Read my full story.

Categories

  • Art
  • Beauty
  • Blues Music
  • Cigar Box Guitar
  • Cinema
  • Collectibles
  • Cuba
  • Discography
  • Folk music
  • Food
  • Graphic Design
  • Guitar luthier tool
  • History
  • Jewelry
  • Lifestyle
  • Magazine
  • Meet and Greet
  • MePassions news
  • Movie
  • Music
  • Paul McCartney
  • Photography
  • Photoshop
  • Recipes
  • Rolling Stones
  • Television
  • The Beatles
  • Travel
  • Uncategorised
  • Vintage guitar

Tags

Art Blues Collectible Cuba Film Font Food Food recipe Graphic Design Graphic Design Photography Photoshop Guitar Harp guitar Historical History Lifestyle Magazine Movie Music Photography Photoshop Recipe Food Recipes Serge Ramelli Television The Beatles Time Titanic Tommy Emmanuel Travel Vintage guitar

MePassions.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. MePasions.com is participant of other affiliate programs Disclaimer© 2021 MePassions - All rights reserved MePassions.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • About US
    • Privacy and Copyright 2020
    • Disclaimer
  • Categories
    • Travel
    • Collectibles
    • Recipes
    • Meet and Greet
    • Music
    • Photoshop
    • Photography
    • Jewelry
    • Movie
  • Women
    • Women handbags
  • Men
    • Watches
    • T-shirts
  • Jewelry Sterling Silver
  • Learn Guitar Online
  • Acoustic Guitars
    • Aiersi Resonator Guitar
    • Resonator
    • Custom Electric Guitars
    • Guitar Amplifiers
    • Guitar Builder/Luthier Supply
  • Books
    • Food book
    • Movies & TV Shows
  • Music
    • Albums
    • Beatles vinyl
      • Beatles Memorabilia
    • Turntable Record Player
  • Shop
    • Basket
    • Checkout

MePassions.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. MePasions.com is participant of other affiliate programs Disclaimer© 2021 MePassions - All rights reserved MePassions.

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Create New Account!

Fill the forms below to register

All fields are required. Log In

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In
en English
ar العربيةnl Nederlandsen Englishfr Françaisde Deutschit Italianoja 日本語ko 한국어ru Русскийes Españolsv Svenskatr Türkçeur اردوvi Tiếng Việt

Add New Playlist