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National NRP Piccolo
Anyone played one? Can't find any vids on the WWW, so I guess they are pretty rare/new.
No affiliation to this company, just only link I can find: https://artisanguitars.com/national-...inish-id-12331 Looks like a nice travel/campfire option |
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I love quart (A-A) tuning in a band setting - my wife uses a 30-year-old mini-Strat knockoff (19" scale) to add sparkle to our plugged-in material (think Nashville tuning with a richer low end), and I've had my Deering Boston tenor banjo in drop-G uke tuning (GCEA like the top four strings of a quart guitar - very popular during the '20s as uke players attempted to cash in on the jazz craze, but virtually unknown today) for the last fifteen years. It's a shame nobody makes a less-pricey version - dropping close to $3K on another instrument would irreparably damage my domestic tranquility - but if Gold Tone/Regal/Republic ever decide to jump on the bandwagon I'm in...
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Gretsch (concert size, $250-ish) and Kala (tenor, around $310) both make resonator ukes. Only four strings, and gCEA (high g) but would get people in the ballpark while they're saving up for a resoguitalele.
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I love all things National and am also interested in one of these. Search YouTube for Mighty Fine Guitars: Dakota Dave Hull. They have a video of him playing his NRP piccolo. I think his is German silver, and sound great!
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Tried 'em both, Frank, and I'm not impressed - been looking for one of the Gold Tone metal tenor Resoukes for a while, though...
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Sounds very cool. Last edited by Kerbie; 10-28-2018 at 04:39 PM. Reason: Fixed video |
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Wow, I absolutely didn't recognize Dakota Dave Hull - of course, it was more than thirty years ago that I saw him last. This is what he looked like then:
Dakota Dave back in the olden days He always wore a cowboy hat back when I knew him (slightly.) Wore it indoors and out. That porkpie hat in the video kind of surprised me. Anyway, getting back to that sort of tuning, an A to A tuning is what's used on the Mexican requinto, and on its steel string American version, the Tacoma Papoose. I've got a Papoose. Just from its register alone, you can really hear it cut through a mix when there are a bunch of people playing at the same time. I imagine that having a resonator version at that tuning would be the acoustic musical instrument equivalent having tactical nuclear weapons.... After looking at that link, I went to the National Reso-Phonic website to see if I could find any mention of piccolo guitars, but I couldn't discover any. So I sent an email to Jason Workman to find out whether it was a custom order or if it just hasn't made it onto their website yet. Wade Hampton Miller |