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Ray;
You've about summed up my musical abilities and challenges. I used to go to Lark in the Morning and buy strange instruments from around the world. And then I realized that while I was having fun, I wasn't getting very good with any particular instrument. So now, the guitar is it for me. The problem is, which guitar? I want to get it down to one which is a real challenge. I'm also hoping to one day be able to play to the quality of the instrument--an even bigger challenge. |
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A friend visiting in his RV saw my X20 and X20-12 and immediately went to the Emerald site looking for a standard ukulele, with no luck. They only show the Synergy harp-ukes and he doesn't know what to do with them either. Basically you tune the bass strings to be the root notes of several chords, and pluck a bass string letting it ring while playing the four-string neck. |
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None of them are widely expensive guitars (although the X20 is getting there), but I will never play to the quality of any of them. I may have outplayed my first acoustic by now, which was a $60 pawn shop no-name in 1977 with barbed wire strings and action about a half inch off the fretboard and neck too twisted to ever get in tune, let alone KEEP in tune. But even that's a close call. Ultimately I'm not worried about that - playing guitar is one of the great joys in my life and while I'm not (and never will be) enough of a player to take full advantage of a great instrument, I'm a good enough player to appreciate the sound and feel of a great instrument. So it gives me a great deal of pleasure to play them, not just to have them... I've played ukes and 12 strings enough to know that I should just stick to a normal six-string guitar. And outside of playing Keef riffs on electric, I've never had any need to confuse myself with alternate tunings either! -Ray |
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Earl's 12-string X20 with the 24.6" scale is the best 12-string I've laid hands on. |
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Doublenecks double neck 6/12 blew me away. I have tried 12s a number of different time and finally just gave them up. The 12 on Doubleneck's Emerald was so easy to play and so sweet sounding that I was almost tempted. However, a 12 in nylon is a tuning nightmare.
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