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Topic: My latest acquisition.. |
basilh
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Posted 25 Nov 2009 4:29 pm |
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I suppose now I'll be "Persona non Grata" with my wife Patricia..
Those who know what I mean know, and the others will have to read betwixt the lines.
I got it HERE
Probably be playing it at this show in January,
They must have run short on Ink when they put Pat and myself on the poster. 
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Jim Konrad
From:
The Great Black Swamp USA
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Posted 25 Nov 2009 8:46 pm
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It's a looker for sure!! Looking forward to hearing it I hope? That looks to be a very good deal?? Not sure what that price is US$
Nice score! |
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George Keoki Lake
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Edmonton, AB., Canada
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Posted 25 Nov 2009 9:53 pm
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| I'd "guess-timate" the price would be around $500.00 USD. Nice acquisition Baz...love to hear you play it on the Forum sometime. I don't think I have ever heard you play an acoustic steel .... (?) |
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Joerg Schubert
From:
Hagen, Germany
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basilh
From:
United Kingdom
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Posted 26 Nov 2009 1:34 am
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| George Keoki Lake wrote: |
| I'd "guess-timate" the price would be around $500.00 USD. Nice acquisition Baz...love to hear you play it on the Forum sometime. I don't think I have ever heard you play an acoustic steel .... (?) |
Thanks Keoki, the price I paid equates to $414.94 USD.
AND, (There I've actually started a sentence with 'and') here I am playing a wiessenborn 3/4 size "Bristolian" Basil Henriques model.
Click here
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Steelies do it without fretting
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John Davis
From:
Cambridge, U.K.
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Posted 26 Nov 2009 2:32 am
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Baz, forget about reading between the lines....if you have spent too much cabbage on that guitar I suggest you just shoot that old Emmons over to me and we can make a cash adjustment???
Anyway, Looked at your vids and of all the guitars you played I have to say the old Fender had by far the best tone IMHO......  |
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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 26 Nov 2009 11:19 am
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I've always thought that you would make an excellent resonator player, and I even thought of building you one. (I noticed how Pat left the room when I started playing one and assumed it was my playing.)
Looks like you got a bargain for the price. Now what you need is an 8-string reso...
By the way, I was impressed with the video of you playing the Weissenborn.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifo6PiCTrS4
Watch this clip folks. It shows a real master at work.  |
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Guy Cundell
From:
More idle ramblings from South Australia
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Posted 26 Nov 2009 12:22 pm
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| Masterful, indeed! Beautiful playing, Basil ..... swinging! |
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basilh
From:
United Kingdom
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Posted 26 Nov 2009 2:10 pm
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Thanks Guy and Alan and all.. Much appreciated and most uplifting..
Alan:- the reason Pat left the room is that she absolutely HATES resonator guitars, primarily because the usual music played on them NOW, is the early Hawaiian /Vaudevillian style which is typified by burlesquing and tons of (presumably) tongue in cheek jiggery pokery with the bar and various foreign objects.
The players like Sol Ho'opi'i, Sam Ku West and Gino Bordin, are her favourites and, in HER opinion, no-one today comes up to their level of expertise and musicianship. |
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HowardR
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N.Y.C.-Fire Island-Asheville
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Posted 26 Nov 2009 5:37 pm Re: My latest acquisition..
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| basilh wrote: |
They must have run short on Ink when they put Pat and myself on the poster. |
At least you & Pat made it above Chickenbone John...... |
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basilh
From:
United Kingdom
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Posted 26 Nov 2009 7:06 pm
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| Actually HowardR, because Chickenbone John lives in Wolverhampton and we're in Tamworth, he's above us, but only geographically. |
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Pat Henrick
From:
United Kingdom
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Posted 27 Nov 2009 6:31 am
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Time for me to pack my bags or Basil's.  |
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Chris Drew
From:
Bristol, UK
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Posted 27 Nov 2009 9:18 am
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Pat, I apologise profusely if I have contributed in any way to Basil's recent penchant for acoustic steel! 
I didn't suspect for a moment that an innocent little wooden hollowneck could perhaps act as the "gateway drug" that leads to resonator use... 
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Ulric Utsi-Åhlin
From:
Sweden
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Posted 27 Nov 2009 9:28 am
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...and one fine day he´ll attend his first Reso-players Anonymous meeting..."Hello,my name is..."
McUtsi |
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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 27 Nov 2009 9:59 am
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| Pat Henrick wrote: |
| Time for me to pack my bags or Basil's. |
I was only joking, Pat. I hate to think of Basil out in the street playing his resonator with his cap between his feet, busking for pennies. (Even though I guess NEW pennies are worth 140% more.) |
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Les Cook
From:
Derbyshire, UK
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Posted 30 Nov 2009 6:15 am
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| well it sounds to me like Pat has enviable taste in acoustic steelers ( Sol Ho'opi'i, Sam Ku West and Gino Bordin) ...couldn't have chosen better myself |
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 30 Nov 2009 5:57 pm
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She also must rank as the perfect wife. How many wives diligently sit there and play rhythm guitar for their husbands hour after hour without complaining or wanting to be in the spotlight.  |
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