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Old 02-03-2023, 08:00 PM
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Default Would you drill plenty of holes in your acoustic ?

A friend of mine sent this to me :
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Old 02-04-2023, 03:16 AM
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No I would not. That video is just a gimmick to get people to listen to his CD. Impressive playing but I wouldnt call it music.
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Old 02-04-2023, 04:23 AM
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The first time I saw John Martyn, he turned up to do a floor spot at the local folk club a small amp (horror!) a Watkins Copicat (tape reverb machine) and a Yamaha acoustic drilled full of holes as per your image.

John was a doyen of "alternative" acoustic playing methods and was widely loved in the UK and Europe.



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Old 02-04-2023, 05:15 AM
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The holes will give it more air so that it burns easier.
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Old 02-04-2023, 05:50 AM
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The next big gimmick, IMO.

Personally, I like the guy I saw on Facebook who put a kitchen funnel in the end pin hole of his dread to do something or other with the tone or projection or something. If he’s smart he’ll patent purpose-designed funnels of exotic woods and charge an exotic price for them. Then he’ll get out of town before everybody wises up.
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Made you look It’s what the internet is all about these days.

And as always, the secret is not in the guitar - it never was.
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Old 02-04-2023, 06:18 AM
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"In general, sound holes allow strings to vibrate more freely" said the guy who put his guitar on his lap to drill 1/4" holes in it....
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Old 02-04-2023, 07:19 AM
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How can you tell if the guitar sounds good with all the added effects?
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Old 02-04-2023, 07:57 AM
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I remember the guy that rolled a stack of rack effects etc into the local coffee shop I frequented saturday evenings many yrs ago. I was intrigued, surely that stack of electronic gear would make amazing sound, yes it was. But the sound was amazinly bad.
I am all about natural acoustic sound admitedly but I liked the sound of this guy, obviously all effects. The thing that bothered me was it wasnt music. He just kept playing the same lick like a looper would.
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Old 02-04-2023, 08:12 AM
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All I could tell was that he plays well enough and has enough processing that it seems that the holes didn’t screw things up too much.
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Old 02-04-2023, 02:41 PM
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He just needs to play an electric guitar.
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Old 02-05-2023, 12:19 AM
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Jamo has it right, all we can hear is processing but I thought it sounded better than any electric guitar I ever heard or played. I was all about electric for many yrs. Isnt that Ibanez a cheap model with I would assume a cheap pickup system? Interesting, but Im not going to go out and buy an album. I guess nowadays we stay in. I like the albums they have at the local music store.

Since this thread is about dead, I want to reminis about buying recordings. In the small, farming community I grew up in there was a record store that had booths that you could go in with one of the albums from stock and listen to it. I never understood the financial aspect of that. Sure enough, they went out of business. But to be in one of those booths with a girl , ooh. I did buy one record. It was a 45 of Love Me Tender. I didnt know it was actually Aura Lee. I just knew it was beautiful.
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Interesting comments since I did not know that guy.
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Old 02-07-2023, 09:13 AM
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It sounded very muddy to me. Holes like that though will sap the life right out of a guitar. When you are building a guitar and you 'close the box' meaning the top and back are glued to the sides you have essentially built a drum. You can tap it and blow into the sound hole and the thing is totally alive. Then you cut the binding channel and what happens there often times is you have little holes randomly around the perimeter where the binding channel has gone to the kerfed linings. The guitar at that point is completely dead. The life is gone right out of it. The top no longer resonates when tapped or hummed into the sound hole. Once you put the binding on and seal up all those random little holes the life comes ring back into it.

My guess is that random drilling like that has a very similar effect. But if you plug it into an effects rack then it doesn't really matter and might even sound better that way. But that sounded middle muddy to me.
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Old 02-07-2023, 10:35 AM
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This has been a fun thread, we are all so serious
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