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09-23-2015, 02:01 PM
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For Those of You Playing Bottleneck....
Simple question; can a nice blues effect be achieved with a spider cone reso guitar for both bottleneck slide and finger picked blues?
Thank you in advance for those who relate their experience😀 
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09-23-2015, 10:13 PM
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Oh yeah.
Biscuit single cones are not at all my personal favorite tone. I like more sustain, and richer harmonics that work together and don't clash. Tricones are one road to that. Spiders are the other. Here's Colin Linden
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09-24-2015, 02:26 AM
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Simple answer: YES!! Check out Mr. Clapton:
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09-24-2015, 07:58 AM
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I'm guessing Eric is playing the Unicorn of the reso world. A Fine Resophonic out of France. I'd love to meet one someday.
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10-07-2015, 07:50 AM
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10-07-2015, 09:00 AM
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Hi, to traditionalists (like me) blues is played on a biscuit cone or tricone National, and country is played on a spider cone Dobro.
However, in truth bottleneck blues can be played on almost anything (well, apart from a grand piano, trumpet, etc.) The differences in tone and sustain is the thing that decides most. The Spider cone does tend to have a less harsh sound and more sustain than a biscuit cone which is more incisive and louder (esp. in a steel body). I have both, - a Dobro squareneck which as it was assembled by Gibson had radical intonation errors and so had to be re-routed out and was fitted with a decent cone and spider (Beard). For some years I also had a very fine 2005 National Style "O" deluxe which I've just traded for an Estrellita because the Style"O" was too heavy and too loud (man!) The choice, really, is yours, but should you choose a Dobro - make sure that it is either made before the Gibson era, or has a correct(ed) intonation.
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10-08-2015, 06:52 AM
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I've played an Estrellita and they are great. My Model D is basically an Estrellita with a spider instead of a biscuit. In a perfect world I'd own four resonators. A Triolian, a round neck with a biscuit bridge and brass body, a square neck Dobro style and my Model D spider. Picking just one was very difficult.
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