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Topic: You may already own a "Weissenborn" and not know i |
David Pinkston
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Hendersonville, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 8 Dec 2009 2:49 pm |
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I have looked for an inexpensive Weissenborn for years. Just didn't like the thin sound of the Goldtones, etc. I have a dobro, but wanted the non reso sound sometimes in the studio.
On a whim I took my Gibson Advanced Jumbo and put a nut riser on it. I had medium strings on it, and tuned it to dobro tuning GBDGBD (135135) and played it with a lap steel bar, thumb pick and no finger pics. Sounds better, fuller and bigger than any Weissenborn I can afford... |
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Steinar Gregertsen
From:
Arendal, Norway, R.I.P.
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Posted 8 Dec 2009 3:25 pm
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Yeah, a full bodied flattop guitar set up for 'horisontal' playing will almost always sound fuller and deeper than a weissenborn style guitar.
IMO, the 'classic' weissenborn sound isn't supposed to be bassy and big,- a good weissenborn has a unique combination of percussive "snap/crunch" and a special sweetness that gives it its magic.
A flattop guitar will sound fuller much because of the deeper body and a squareneck flattop guitar is high on my wish list, I've had good results putting an extension nut on my Seagull "Folk" sized flattop.
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David Pinkston
From:
Hendersonville, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 8 Dec 2009 3:30 pm Agt
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| Yep I agree. As I was blessed with the chance to work with some of the Southern rock guys I always liked the bottleneck sound on acoustic, I just don't like a bunch of fret noise. The Gibson jumbo sounds so pretty plus you can get the slants. I find myself liking it more than my dobro now.... |
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Robert Murphy
From:
West Virginia
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Posted 8 Dec 2009 5:29 pm
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| I am having Mike Hauver build me a concert sized ladder braced birch guitar with spruce top and square neck just to get that fuller sound I want. I will post pictures when it comes maybe next month. |
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Ben Elder
From:
La Crescenta, California, USA
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Posted 8 Dec 2009 11:03 pm Cheap and plentiful
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Value tip: since everything Harmony made long ago needed a neck reset anyway: Harmony Sovereign dreadnought. Poor man's Gibson Roy Smeck Stage Deluxe, Epiphone Madrid or Navarre, etc. (Many Sovereigns are worth the price of a reset for restoration to standard playing--blue books be damned. And replacing the through-bridge with a pin bridge is the easy way to make a cannon.)
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Mark Mansueto
From:
Michigan, USA
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Tom Wolverton
From:
Carpinteria, CA
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Posted 9 Dec 2009 12:55 pm Gibson in the lap
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I certainly can't complain about the tone of Kelly Joe Phelps' slide playing.
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David Pinkston
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Hendersonville, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 11 Dec 2009 12:59 pm Lap
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| The way it sits in my lap doesn't bother me at all. The Weissenborns I've played just sound too thin for my taste, but I play Americana and blues/rock stuff so the Gibson is wonderful for that. |
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