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12-22-2020, 04:39 PM
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Did you plan and practice the first song you play on that new custom commission?
I've got a Kostal OMC in build right now so the anticipation and excitement is high. I'm also thinking ahead to what will be the first songs I play on it. I've got two candidates right now:
Doug Young's DADGAD solo fingerstyle arrangement of Paul McCartney's For No One. I took a Zoom class with Doug two months ago and this song was the centerpiece and I just connected with it. Mark Hanson's DGDGBD solo fingerstyle arrangement of Joni Mitchell's Both Sides Now. I've been wanting to take on a Joni Mitchell song and what better one. I have both paperless now (i.e. memorized) so just polishing em up for the big day. Did you have similar aspirations with the arrival of your new custom?
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Doerr Trinity 12 Fret 00 (Lutz/Maple) Edwinson Zephyr 13 Fret 00 (Adi/Coco) Froggy Bottom H-12 (Adi/EIR) Kostal 12 Fret OMC (German Spruce/Koa) Rainsong APSE 12 Fret (Carbon Fiber) Taylor 812ce-N 12 fret (Sitka/EIR Nylon) 
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12-22-2020, 06:32 PM
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First song...
As always, my first song on my next John Kinnaird build will be that old Chinese hit: Tu-Ning. Hahahaha
Interesting question, though. It has been well over 20 years since I bothered making a set list for gigs. I never followed them much anyway even when I did make them way back when... What beverage to imbibe for the initial playing, now there is a question! Have fun and enjoy the whole process! Paul
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12-22-2020, 09:45 PM
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No... I'm not planning and practicing specific tunes for when I get my Franklin OM. But yes... there are certain pieces I'm going to use to evaluate it because there's certain tones I've always connected with Nick's guitars and I want to see how mine compares...
But, I love, John Renbourn: "Pavane d'Aragon", "Little Niles" and "The Southwind" for starters as tester pieces. Also Pierre Bensusan's "4 AM" and Clive Carroll's "Black Moon". My other guitar I'm having made from a local luthier will be set up with heavier strings so I can play more of Michael Hedges stuff...all fingerstyle.
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12-22-2020, 11:44 PM
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Most of the time I just apologize to my new guitars for the mediocrity to which they are about to be exposed. After receiving their forgiveness, I just play the same old garbage.
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Circa OM-30/34 (Adi/Mad) | 000-12 (Ger/Maple) | OM-28 (Adi/Brz) | OM-18/21 (Adi/Hog) | OM-42 (Adi/Braz) Fairbanks SJ (Adi/Hog) | Schoenberg/Klepper 000-12c (Adi/Hog) | LeGeyt CLM (Swiss/Amzn) | LeGeyt CLM (Carp/Koa) Brondel A-2 (Carp/Mad)
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12-23-2020, 06:19 AM
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When I finally received my Buendia jumbo a few years ago, it seemed fitting to embark upon our relationship with Masaaki Kishibe's majestic "Hajimari (The Beginning)".
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Jim Magill Director, The Swannanoa Gathering Guitars:'07 Circa OM, '09 Bashkin 00-12fret, '10 Circa 00 12-fret, '17 Buendia Jumbo, '17 Robbins R.1, '19 Doerr Legacy Select, '12 Collings 000-28H Koa. Pre-War guitars: '20 0-28, '22 00-28, '22 000-28. Mandolins: '09 Heiden Heritage F5, '08 Poe F5 , 1919 Gibson F-4, '80 Monteleone Grand Artist mandolin, '83 Monteleone GA (oval),'85 Sobell cittern.
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12-23-2020, 06:21 AM
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But believe me, this procedure does not even require a custom instrument 
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Nylon string are softer, but harder to play Alhambra 11P
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12-23-2020, 08:42 AM
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Doerr Trinity 12 Fret 00 (Lutz/Maple) Edwinson Zephyr 13 Fret 00 (Adi/Coco) Froggy Bottom H-12 (Adi/EIR) Kostal 12 Fret OMC (German Spruce/Koa) Rainsong APSE 12 Fret (Carbon Fiber) Taylor 812ce-N 12 fret (Sitka/EIR Nylon)
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12-23-2020, 08:48 AM
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Jim, I was at the SG in 2019 and we met. Hoping to see you next year!
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Doerr Trinity 12 Fret 00 (Lutz/Maple) Edwinson Zephyr 13 Fret 00 (Adi/Coco) Froggy Bottom H-12 (Adi/EIR) Kostal 12 Fret OMC (German Spruce/Koa) Rainsong APSE 12 Fret (Carbon Fiber) Taylor 812ce-N 12 fret (Sitka/EIR Nylon)
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12-23-2020, 09:29 AM
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I was thinking the same thing just recently with a new guitar coming in early 2021.
I have been working on Waiting by Calum Graham which would be a fun first piece to play. Vetiver by Michael Watts or the Luca Freddi version on The Sound of Silence. Both have a lot of space around the notes, would also be cool. Hmmmm....better get practicing..
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12-23-2020, 10:05 AM
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I have never worked on a song specifically, but I did ask Ben Wilborn to send me my last build already tuned in Drop D (there is really no strong data that detuning the guitar makes a difference when shipping, so before anyone gets all worked up, I took the "risk), so that instead of playing Paul's song, the first sounds I heard out of it was the big full D chord.
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12-23-2020, 10:52 AM
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2013 Stehr Auditorium (Carpathian/Myrtle) 2015 Stehr Auditorium (Adi/BRW) 2020 Baranik Meridian (Blue Spruce/Manchinga) 2020 Wilborn Arum (Tunnel 14/Coco) 2021 Kinnaird Graybeard (BC Cedar/Bog Oak) 2022 Kinnaird CS Student Build (Adi/Padauk) 2023 Kinnaird FS (Italian/Koa)
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12-23-2020, 11:57 AM
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Jim Magill Director, The Swannanoa Gathering Guitars:'07 Circa OM, '09 Bashkin 00-12fret, '10 Circa 00 12-fret, '17 Buendia Jumbo, '17 Robbins R.1, '19 Doerr Legacy Select, '12 Collings 000-28H Koa. Pre-War guitars: '20 0-28, '22 00-28, '22 000-28. Mandolins: '09 Heiden Heritage F5, '08 Poe F5 , 1919 Gibson F-4, '80 Monteleone Grand Artist mandolin, '83 Monteleone GA (oval),'85 Sobell cittern.
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12-23-2020, 04:04 PM
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Since Jayson Bowerman has re-dubbed his OMs as the "Oregon Manzanita" model, I have been working on Tony Rice's "Manzanita" with the intention that that will be the first thing I play on my OM when it is ready.
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"What have I learned but the proper use for several tools" -Gary Snyder Bourgeois DR-A / Bowerman "Working Man's" OM / Martin Custom D-18 (adi & flame) / Martin OM-21 / Northwood M70 MJ / 1970s Sigma DR-7 / Eastman E6D / Flatiron Signature A5 / Silverangel Econo A (Call me Dan)
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