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Greg Vincent


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Post  Posted 15 Jul 2024 10:08 am    
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I was in Korea for three months and only had access to my brother-in-law’s lousy bent-neck acoustic, so… I grabbed a D-cell and made do. Very Happy

https://youtube.com/shorts/7BRRQSLlan4?feature=shared
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Donny Hinson

 

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Post  Posted 15 Jul 2024 10:25 am    
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Yep, that's how it all began! Mr. Green

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Ian Rae


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Redditch, England
Post  Posted 15 Jul 2024 3:41 pm    
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Great sound, Greg. Now for a lengthy thread discussing the tonal characteristics of different brands of battery...
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GaryL

 

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Post  Posted 15 Jul 2024 4:19 pm     Making do...
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Ian, you nailed it!
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Lee Baucum


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Post  Posted 15 Jul 2024 5:31 pm    
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Ian Rae wrote:
Great sound, Greg. Now for a lengthy thread discussing the tonal characteristics of different brands of battery...


Hmm. That discussion could be quite electrifying.
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Dave Hopping


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Aurora, Colorado
Post  Posted 15 Jul 2024 8:24 pm    
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We ought also to examine the tonal nuances generated by the varying amount of charge left on said dry-cell batteries. Winking
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Ken Pippus


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Langford, BC, Canada
Post  Posted 16 Jul 2024 9:25 am    
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Black batteries sound better.
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Dan Kelly


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Boston, MA
Post  Posted 16 Jul 2024 2:11 pm    
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Too bad, before watching this video, I just gave away all my dead batteries - free of charge!

That one is so bad I should be convicted of battery. I just haven't been charged.

This could be a positively energizing thread!
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Dave Hopping


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Post  Posted 16 Jul 2024 9:10 pm    
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Dan-
Watch out they don't put you in the acoustic chair! Winking
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Greg Vincent


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Post  Posted 18 Jul 2024 1:42 pm    
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You fellas are too much! Laughing Laughing Laughing
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Dale Rottacker


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Walla Walla Washington, USA
Post  Posted 19 Jul 2024 4:34 am    
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When I was a wee lad, my Dad had an old "Lone Ranger" guitar he got for hoeing a potato field when he was 9, (1939) that had a raised nut on it ... I remember taking a butter knife to when I was maybe 6 trying to play it. I wasn't NEAR as talented as Greg.
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Rick Kornacker


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Dixon Springs, Tennessee, USA
Post  Posted 19 Jul 2024 8:37 am     "love the one you're with!"
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Hey all! Another perspective. During my fortunate career playing steel in Nashville I've owned and played most of the cutting-edge steels as they improved over the years. Recently I've had to sell off most of my precious steel-related gear to facilitate an illness and finances. Just recently acquired a nice Magnum SD-10, not as fancy as most of the other guitars I've owned, but otherwise, checks all the boxes. My point...if you have a sufficient instrument and the know-how to play it you will be just fine! Would you agree? Regards,RK😉
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Cartwright Thompson


Post  Posted 19 Jul 2024 12:37 pm    
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Amen Rick. I’ll bet Buddy would have sounded wonderful on a Maverick
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Greg Vincent


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Folsom, CA USA
Post  Posted 21 Jul 2024 8:35 am    
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This is the oddity I was borrowing over in Korea: a dreadnaught body with a strange, dark stain, a metal pickguard, a bent neck (complete with misaligned fret-marker dots!), all topped-off with an Ovation-style headstock. Shocked I’ve never seen such a thing. We called it The Platypus. Very Happy

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