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I mostly use them in an acoustic duo I'm in, along with a flattop, mandolin, and blues harps. There's no dedicated style. My music is heavily cosmic Americana. But every song does have a favored instrument — e.g. for "The Boxer" it's mando, for "For What It's Worth" it's roundneck, for "Angel From Montgomery" it's squareneck, and for "Just My Imagination" it's drop-D flattop. More generally, of course, the roundneck is heavenly for synchopated bottleneck blues sounds, so I have a string of fingerstyle slide tunes I play on it. As you know, the reso sound is so cool and distinctive, especially backed up by someone with a flattop playing rhythm. Really perks up pub crawlers. You're also right that a flattop tuned to open tuning sounds great. So if I were to sell a guitar, it would probably be the roundneck. I've never measured the action of any of my guitars. They're all pretty flow — aside from the squareneck, of course. |
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There's a local hot picker who has his National biscuit set up with 12's for acoustic lead work, cuts like a Ginzu knife at open jams - been considering a (more-affordable) tricone of my own for a good few years, for similar reasons...
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Really appreciate the feedback. I played with some friends this week and had the reso in standard with 1st string dropped to D. Liked how that was working; regular chord shapes available for fretted notes and all the open G stuff on 1-4. Going to keep experimenting.
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