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Bluegrass on an Archtop
Oh I love this!
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I'm learning to flatpick and fingerpick guitar to accompany songs. I've played and studied traditional noter/drone mountain dulcimer for many years. And I used to play dobro in a bluegrass band. |
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Wow, what a great sounding guitar (playing is great, too).
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Very nice indeed.
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Thanks for passing that along Robin, much appreciated
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Surprise surprise, it sounds good!
In a similar vein: (IIUC she owns an archtop by a traditional, contemporary west-coast builder who's name I forgot but she never seems to use it.)
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That just sound lovely - Molly is such a class player and singer. The guitar has a beautiful timbre. Compared to this L5 it's the bass side timbre that I'm missing on my Godin
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I'm learning to flatpick and fingerpick guitar to accompany songs. I've played and studied traditional noter/drone mountain dulcimer for many years. And I used to play dobro in a bluegrass band. |
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But every time I look at this recording I get the impression Molly isn't thrilled at all...
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Perhaps she is just having a bad day! This could have taken multiple takes for the film crew to get !!!
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I'm learning to flatpick and fingerpick guitar to accompany songs. I've played and studied traditional noter/drone mountain dulcimer for many years. And I used to play dobro in a bluegrass band. |
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Who knows. She's an amazing player in any case, and nobody should be surprised that an L-5 Gibson archtop sounds wonderful for bluegrass. It was good enough for Mother Maybelle Carter, after all. HE
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LOL! I'm not surprised that Eli still has the tuner clipped on to his Rincon archtop in the OP video. That instrument is fitted with banjo planetary tuners!
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I'm learning to flatpick and fingerpick guitar to accompany songs. I've played and studied traditional noter/drone mountain dulcimer for many years. And I used to play dobro in a bluegrass band. |
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Erm, a player of her stature should be able to correct the tuning by ear and (almost) on the fly ...
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I'm always not thinking many more things than I'm thinking. I therefore ain't more than I am. Pickle: Gretsch G9240 "Alligator" wood-body resonator wearing nylguts (China, 2018?) Toon: Eastman Cabaret JB (China, 2022) Stanley: The Loar LH-650 (China, 2017) |
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Ok, I know that this is primarily abut the archtops and how they can be used for all sorts of styles, ( Gibson '34/5 F hole anyone?) but I muust put a word infor Ei West's playing style.
I was fortunate enough to see Eli with Cahalen twice in the UK, and love both of them together, and separately, but Eli's melodic and often surprising runs and fills always thrill and delight me : Similarly when he plays the octave mando : Eli, it seems, likes to jog, and as I was pulling in to the carpark at the last gig I saw them, he ran straight in front of me .. looking the wrong way in a country where we drive on the left (?) - so we are lucky to still have him! Loved the sound of his "Roy Smeck" style flat tops - can't remember who built his gear now.
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The Gibson L-5 is a hand-carved/tuned century-old instrument, designed/signed by arguably the Stradivarius of fretted instruments and worth $150K+/- : https://reverb.com/item/71172195-gib...ard-shell-case The Godin is a great little guitar for the price, far superior in QC and playability to the postwar student archtops on which it is modeled - and I'd have it over the old Harmony Broadway on which I learned any day... The Loar L-5 is a world-class instrument in every respect, which forever changed the status of the guitar in popular music - and for many players remains the criterion by which all other archtops are judged... Big difference...
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My Godin is doing a wonderful job at gigs. I would like to try something carved though - just as a comparison.
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https://youtu.be/TNODaar4Tls?si=MAmFlsuAjGpZ6j4r I’ve had mine, a 1960, since 2001 and it’s still my favorite. It’s versatile and can handle any style. In fact, now is the time to grab one if you can because the prices are going up. I see them these days going for $2500 to $3000; mine (in Very Good + condition) was $1000 back in May of 2001 from the much missed Mandolin Brothers. L50s are fairly plentiful as the model ran (in its definitive f-hole form) from about 1935 to 1970. |