Chris Morrison
From:
Massachusetts, USA
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Posted 20 May 2009 6:57 pm |
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FWIW, I'd like to suggest that you reconsider some of the imports -- particularly the Paul Beard signature Goldtone, Standard model. In bluegrass dobro circles, they are very highly regarded as the best available at their price (about $600 new, case extra). They all are upgraded with Beard cone, spider, etc. If you get one through Beard's shop, it'll be set up by the Beard shop. It is a very good guitar! BTW, Wechter-Scheerhorns are also highly regarded, for a few hundred $ more.
I don't know much about Dobro-brand dobros, except that you rarely see one at bluegrass festivals, at least in the Northeast. The really old ones have their own sound, for sure, but any decent modern instrument will be distinctly more powerful -- Goldtone Beard, Wechter-Scheerhorn, the occasional Regal Black Lightning, others with Quarterman, Scheerhorn, or Beard cones.
BTW, I'm a just a happy Beard owner (Goldtone Beard, then Beard R and Mike Auldridge models) I still own and play my Goldtone Beard, tuned to open D, along with the other two -- ...and I don't work for any instrument companies 
HTH, Chris |
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