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Congratulations; that's a fine looking guitar and the story really adds to it.
Red gum is a well known eucalypt here in south eastern Australia. It is a very dramatic tree and is about the toughest eucalypt I know of, quite heavy and as hard as a rock. Col |
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Beautiful.
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Congratulations. A Kinnaird is hard to beat.
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I drove to Uluru back in the 90’s – absolutely awesome place, quite magical, so a good name for your guitar! To add some visual context, here is a good image of a red gum out in the bush. Col |
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I've been playing it a good bit of course, and enjoying the heck out of it. I'm still having trouble pinning down the sound:not much like mahogany or rosewood or anything else I've played. It has a great deal of sustain, but then so does every Kinnaird I've ever tried. Strong fundamentals but enough harmonic complexity to sweeten things. A real joy to play fingerstyle.
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I thought I'd give a little sound/tone update on this new guitar of mine. Let me start by saying that I'm totally in love with it and have a hard time putting it down, so bear that in mind if whatever I say sounds critical.
I stated in one of my posts that I though it was more toward the rosewood end of the spectrum than the mahogany end, but I want to revise that. It seems (to my ears) to have a strong, clean fundamental, perhaps more like mahogany or even maple. Chords have a clean ring, as if each string contributed only what is necessary for that chord (the intonation is very beautiful), without any stray harmonics that muddy the chord. I like this quality so much that my preferred mode of play is strummed chords - it's great for pop ballads. It does fine for fingerstyle as well, though it doesn't have the depth in the bass notes I get from my dread (no surprise there) - if anything it is too well balanced! I don't know if any of this is attributable to the red gum back and sides - the double X bracing may be a factor here as well - but I thought I would put this out there in case anyone is considering red gum as a drop-in replacement for rosewood: I don't think it is. Now, Steve K. or Ryan M. or someone else with some time playing this guitar may have a different take on this - they are welcome to chime in and disagree if they would like. Other red gum guitars may have totally different sonic profiles: since I've never played one I can't speak to that. Let me repeat: I love this guitar. It's no bluegrass canon but I have one of those. What it does well it does very, very well.
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Thanks for the description Stan. I think it is safe to say not many of us have played a RedGum guitar. Love the crystal clear trebles. Sounds like a perfect guitar to accompany some singing. Congrats again.
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