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Topic: Chet Atkins playing "Hawaiian Wedding Song" (Video |
Kay Das
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Los Angeles CA
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Bill Hatcher
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Posted 31 Jan 2009 6:29 am |
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Short scale Delvecchio resonator. Atkins got that guitar from Nato Lima of Los Indios Tabajaras after hearing his RCA recordings using it and then he made it into one of his signature sounds.
Atkins was great, whether playing a simple melody or a complicated finger style arrangement or recording his own projects or producing others. At a time when the Beatles pretty much wasted other formats on radio, Atkins and Owen Bradley saved country music, airplay wise, no matter what you think of their "cosmopolitan" sound.
Chet Atkins was the greatest. |
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Les Anderson
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The Great White North
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Posted 31 Jan 2009 8:41 am
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| The neck of that guitar has to be close to four inches plus across if not more. The stubby fingered fumble finger pickers like me would have a terrible time with that guitar. |
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Kay Das
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Los Angeles CA
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Posted 2 Feb 2009 9:42 am
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That guitar that Chet used looked vaguely familiar, and the tone was reminiscent of Los Indios Tabajaros. Now I know, thanks Bill! I always thought that the sound they made was great cross-over between guitar and steel guitar. And Chet had a great finger-picking style, which can be emulated on steel guitar as well.
Chet is remembered with great affection. They had named a street after him in Music Row, Nashville, last time I visited.
Kay |
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Bill Hatcher
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Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 2 Feb 2009 8:44 pm
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Kay. Here is a link to a Bach piece I did on my Delvecchio guitar. I loved the sound of it when I heard Atkins and Los Indios. It took me many years to find one and I replaced the fingerboard and reshaped the neck to get it to play in tune and more comfortable. As original they are one step above junk, but with some work they have a beautiful sound as shown by Atkins and Lima.
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?7jufs5btmfw |
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Kay Das
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Los Angeles CA
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Posted 3 Feb 2009 6:52 pm ...exquisite...
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Bill,
That is just exquisite! Shades of Los Indios and Chet Atkins in there somewhere too in the Bach. Love it..
Bravo!
Kay |
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