National Resophonics New Catalogue, Very cool!

David Siegler · From: Mill Valley, CA USA

National has a new "catalogue." It is fantastic! It was designed by Mac (MacGregor Gains, Co-founder and VP). It is a very cool cardboard book that opens to display two CDs and oversized trading cards.

"Instead of a booklet, there are individual cards for a variety of our instruments, with a brief description, history, and specifications on one side and an image of the instrument on the other, much like the trading cards of yore.
Also included are three postcards and a card with the track listings of the “Artists in Resonance II” CD. "

The trading cards are nice enough that Don Young told me they will probably have them printed up individually so that people can get them for framing w/out having to get the whole catalog.

The CDs are:
ARTISTS IN RESONANCE, Vol. II, First Printing 2006
"This compilation is an excellent supplement to the AudioCatalogue, featuring 24 recordings of artists playing their National Reso-Phonic instruments. Hear our instruments in use!"

AUDIO CATALOGUE II (which I think is the same one from last year's catalog)
"The material on this CD has been assembled to facilitate comparisons of the various instruments, makes and models currently in production at National Reso-Phonic Guitars. Discussed and demonstrated by Bob Brozman, each instrument is played in various tunings and styles. Included are: Single cone Style “0” (brass) and Delphi (steel), tricone Style “1” (brass) and Polychrome (steel); Radio-Tone Bendaway (wood); Estralita (now Deluxe, also wood); 12-string brass single and tricone; brass Style “1” Baritone; Model D (wood, spider cone); wood and steel ukuleles and the acoustic-electric ResoLectric.

The disk ends up with several instrumental numbers by Doug MacLeod, Catfish Keith (playing his steel Baritone Polychrome Tricone), Hull and Larson and Bob Brozman. This CD is designed to answer such frequently asked questions as “What's the difference between a single cone and a tricone?” "

The catalogue wasn't on their site a couple days ago but it is now. You can see it by going to http://www.nationalguitars.com/index_ie.html
and clicking the Dealers & Catalogue link on the left side.

For $15 this seems to me to be a "must have" if you like Nationals, good music, enjoy guitar p*rn &/or are trying to educate yourself about the different models. Really nice design!

BTW, the catalogue I saw included trading cards of the new but not yet released guitars such as the El Trovador.

Check out these images from the Elderly site.

http://www.elderly.com/accessories/items/NRAC4.htm

Ben Jones · From: Seattle, Washington, USA

What an awesome job on the design!
More like art than a catalog. very cool. and the discs sound like a great idea. That musta been costly to produce.

Andy Volk · From: Boston, MA

Let me add my kudos to McGregor, Don and Marie at National. This is as spectacular a piece of marketing literature as you'll ever see. An aural and visual treat! Among the 24 excellent cuts that demonstarte the entire National line, there are a few standouts:

Forumite Pete Grant's gorgeous resophonic rendering of Sheebeg & Sheemore and mind-boggling version of Banish Misfortune. A few years of woodshedding pipe records have really paid off. Cindy Cashdollar contributes a cool baritone tricone tune, there's blues on the new national mandolin and a lot more. This is gonna be a collectors item.

[This message was edited by Andy Volk on 19 March 2006 at 02:45 PM.]

Jon Zimmerman · From: California, USA

OH my..All of the above! Short-list revised.

Pete Grant · From: Auburn, CA, USA

Thanks, Andy. I was also helped and encouraged in my quest for getting 'that Irish sound' by being able to play with Paddy Keenan over this last year. He's a genius on the uilleann pipes, and I'm grateful to him for letting me plunk along with him.

McGregor Gaines is another genius, and I don't throw that term around lightly. He has an uncanny knack for visualizing great things, where he builds upon past traditions, then brings his unique visualization to full potential. I'm proud to be working with him, Marie, and Don. Right now, I'm finishing up recording some tracks on the Model D 6-string for the forthcoming Audio Catalogue III.

Pete Grant · From: Auburn, CA, USA

Incidentally, both of the tracks I played on on the Artists in Resonance CD were on my 8-string open chamber Model D. The card for the CD says that Banish Misfortune is played on a squareneck Model D. It is, but it's also an 8-string and open chamber Model D, like the Sheebeg and Sheemore track.

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