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Steinar Gregertsen


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Post  Posted 9 Apr 2010 3:26 pm    
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Couldn't sleep last night so I made this slideshow video to one of the tracks from my 2006 album "Southern Moon Northern Lights", hope you'll enjoy it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0hxnx3YG0I

The reason I couldn't sleep? Waiting for the post office to open so I could rush down and pick up my new Washburn "Historic Reissue" parlor guitar...
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Found it cheap on eBay ($350) and as expected it had lots of midrange 'honk', but it didn't come fully alive until I put on an extension nut and tuned it to open-G. Exactly what I hoped for, great little lap slider and a nice addition to my Lazy River weissenborn. Very Happy
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Don Barnhardt

 

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Post  Posted 9 Apr 2010 7:13 pm    
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Beautiful!!!!! My wife even likes it.
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Eric Ebner


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Post  Posted 9 Apr 2010 7:26 pm    
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My wife likes it too! She heard the music but didn't see the visual stuff... WOW! I can't help but think that what these instruments are for;-) Great work Steinar on all levels.
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Ryan Barwin


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Post  Posted 9 Apr 2010 11:00 pm    
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That's beautiful playing! And the video fits perfectly with it. Very nice stuff.
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Tom Pettingill


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Post  Posted 10 Apr 2010 5:42 am    
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I have always have enjoyed that tune Smile
For those that have never had the chance to experience the northern lights in person, they are absolutely stunning. I lived in Alaska for a while and the experience is forever etched in my brain.

Nice score on the Washburn, looking forward to hearing you play it!
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Steinar Gregertsen


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Post  Posted 10 Apr 2010 6:01 am    
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Thanks so much guys, glad you enjoyed it! Very Happy

I've fallen completely in love with that little Washburn, it has a huge wide V-profile neck that's perfect for all kinds of slide playing, the width at the nut is exactly the same as the extension nut I put on (never seen that before), and it has surprisingly good volume and sustain for such a small guitar. At the moment I have it tuned to lowbass-G, but since the bass response is rather weak I'll restring it for highbass-G and use it as my "reso without a resonator". Cool
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Randy Reeves


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LaCrosse, Wisconsin, USA
Post  Posted 10 Apr 2010 8:12 am    
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what a wonderful ebay find! that is a beautiful guitar.
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Post  Posted 10 Apr 2010 11:58 am    
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Lovely guitar, Steinar, and beautiful playing on the video. Stopped me right in my tracks.
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Mark Mansueto


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Michigan, USA
Post  Posted 10 Apr 2010 12:56 pm    
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Beautiful song and a very cool guitar. Congrat's, Steinar.
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Steve Cunningham


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Post  Posted 11 Apr 2010 9:35 am    
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Sweet playing Steinar. That guitar has a nice, focused sound.
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Jan Jonsson


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Gothenburg, Sweden
Post  Posted 11 Apr 2010 1:53 pm    
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Lovely, Steinar!

-- Jan
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Rickey Mitchell

 

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Fresno the center of California
Post  Posted 13 Jan 2011 5:56 am    
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Excellent work as always, Steinar
That is your Weissenborn and not your new Washburn?
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Kevin Brown


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Post  Posted 13 Jan 2011 6:13 am    
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Now I know you better Steinar and shared your environment, your music makes a lot more sense to me, looking forward to your next project once you have all thawed out over there.
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Roy Thomson


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Wolfville, Nova Scotia,Canada
Post  Posted 13 Jan 2011 7:40 am    
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Beautiful rich tone from that Weis Steinar and
the perfect emotion and feeling in your playing.
Will look forward to more from time to time.

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Steinar Gregertsen


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Post  Posted 13 Jan 2011 10:20 am    
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Thanks guys! Smile

Rickey,- this was recorded in 2005 on my first Lazy River weiss, the 4th built so Rance was still experimenting with the design back then. This one had a shallower body than what's standard for weisses, plus a very large soundhole, and I believe both factors contributed to give it a very focused and 'percussive' tone without sacrificing the warmth. It had something special and I regret selling it.......
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Clair Dunn


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Post  Posted 14 Jan 2011 3:25 am    
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Steinar --
As a photographer, and as someone who has only seen the northern lights twice -- once all white, the second time red undulating shafts at the top of the sky, are those colored sections of your slide show "undoctored"?? I was swooning the entire time! And, I'm not generally a swooner -- but sensory overload was too much.

Thanks.
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Steinar Gregertsen


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Post  Posted 14 Jan 2011 3:52 am    
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Clair Dunn wrote:
are those colored sections of your slide show "undoctored"??


Yes, they're "pure". The Northern lights can be pretty dramatic, as in this photo:



Also check these photos from a recent 'outburst' of Northern Lights over the north of Norway:
http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/troms_og_finnmark/1.7068044

I have to say that none of the photos in the video are mine, I live in the south of Norway where this phenomenon is fairly rare...
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