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Anyone been to a Dana Bourgeois Clinic
I'm going to attend a clinic at SoundPure in Durham, NC tonight featuring Dana Bourgeois and flat picker Scott Fore.
Anyone else hear his presentation? Curious as to what to expect.
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Dana will probably discuss and demonstrate his top voicing techniques.
He's a brilliant builder, we just spent the weekend with him in Maine, picking wood for our next 20 guitars!
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As it turned out, that's exactly what the focus was.
It was fascinating to watch Dana take a newly braced top and go through his "voicing process" while he discussed exactly what he was doing and why. Scott Fore demonstrated a dozen or so Bourgeois guitars and he is of course a brilliant flat-picker. And perhaps best of all ... the 20 or so of us who were in attendance, had free access to all the gorgeous guitars they had brought with them.
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Sounds like a superb evening! I would love to attend one of those.
So was there a Bourgeois that stood out to you (either in your hands or Mr. Fore's)?
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Dana's a great builder. I had the pleasure of visiting his shop a few years ago. They have a great operation there, with a few craftsmen hand-building a small number of guitars with just enough technological assistance to optimize quality. Dana's a pretty low-key guy who still puts in time at a bench every day he's in the shop. He seems far more interested in turning out fantastic instruments than in pursuing fame or riches -- as is true of many fine luthiers.
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That guitar is a Work of Art.
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I can only imagine! A lefty though? That was cool for them to bring some left handed guitars along.
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I love Dana's work with MadRose (one of my personal guitars is a Madi/Adi OM from about 8 years ago).
I've noticed that with Bourgeois and MadRose, it's almost the opposite of Brazilian: the wilder the figure, the better the guitar sounds (vs Braz guitars w/ straight grain usually sounding stronger) Lovely looking guitar, tho!
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That's not the actual example that we got to play. No lefties were brought. All the guitars they brought were primarily for Scott Fore's demos.
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Scott is my son's guitar teacher. He told me he couldn't do Nick's lesson tonight because he'd be at IBMA. I guess he was telling the truth.
I've seen Scott do several clinics and have played both of his Bourgeois guitars but never anything like that. I would have loved to have been there tonight. Here's a video of Scott backing Nick up at a contest. He's playing his Brazilian dread here. Not sure if it's a Vintage D or a D-150 or what but it's got a great rhythm sound. Forked Deer
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