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Topic: guess what resonator i used...... |
Bill Hatcher
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Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 12 Apr 2022 5:36 am |
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a few years ago a friend of mine recorded a project of all blind willie mctell gospel songs. buddy green came down from nashville to play harmonica. we all set up live and recorded with no overdubs or punch ins. we got a good sound and had fun. i snuck in a little howlin wolf "spoonful" cause it always works.
after the project was released we got invited to the annual blind willie festival to play. sonny landreth was the headliner of the show.
you get brownie points if you can identify the sound of the resonator i played slide on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0_MwJzfq30 |
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Mike Holder
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Alabama! Home of the great “Don Helms” & his singer “Hank Williams”!
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Posted 12 Apr 2022 7:17 am
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| Great track! I’ll guess it was a Tricone or the 32 Triolian!! |
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Bill Hatcher
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Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 12 Apr 2022 8:29 am
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| Mike Holder wrote: |
| Great track! I’ll guess it was a Tricone or the 32 Triolian!! |
Glad you liked the track.
Nope to any kind of national guitar. Give y’all a hint...it’s not a metal body..not made in the US. |
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Michael Lee Allen
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Portage Park / Irving Park, Chicago, Illinois
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Posted 12 Apr 2022 11:18 am
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| Del Vecchio Dinamico??? |
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Bill Hatcher
From:
Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 12 Apr 2022 11:52 am
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| Michael Lee Allen wrote: |
| Del Vecchio Dinamico??? |
You get the brownie points and I’m not surprised. Like my black lizard mojo thing up at the headstock?
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Peter Jacobs
From:
Northern Virginia
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Bill Hatcher
From:
Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 12 Apr 2022 12:16 pm
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| Peter Jacobs wrote: |
| The lizard is great, but the fret markers have the real mojo, Bill! |
Yep. Still on there from the session. I also see tape around the strings behind the saddle to stop any high pitch ringing. Joe pass used to do that when recording. I didn’t get a cone cover with that guitar. Need to make one. I have a long scale DV guitar that has a cover on it with 10 holes. Never seen another one like it.
Also, I guess I wasn’t using the lowest string, so I just took it off.......me and Keith Richards.. |
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Steve Cunningham
From:
Atlanta, GA
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Bill Hatcher
From:
Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 12 Apr 2022 7:59 pm
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| Steve Cunningham wrote: |
| Mike Bielenberg (guy in ATL that used to hire Bill and I for sessions back in the day) used to rave about that guitar. |
here is 9 mins of bach on my other delvecchio guitar. these instruments are fabulous. hard to find and you have to do a lot of work to them, but they are worth it.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/momm0xmtm3m/Toccata_In_F_.mp3/file |
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Robert B Murphy
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Mountain View, Arkansas, USA
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Posted 15 Apr 2022 5:07 pm
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I'd never have guessed that was a Del Vecchio. It's got a great sound. I worked in Brazil twice and could never find one in my off time. There was a park in Sao Paulo where I found a bench where the seat was a rosewood log cut in half.
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Bill Hatcher
From:
Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 16 Apr 2022 8:51 am
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| Robert B Murphy wrote: |
| I'd never have guessed that was a Del Vecchio. It's got a great sound. I worked in Brazil twice and could never find one in my off time. There was a park in Sao Paulo where I found a bench where the seat was a rosewood log cut in half. |
interesting you could not find one in sao paulo. thats where they were made for decades. every so often there is an ebay seller in brazil that lists one. the main reason they have a small following is chet atkins and nato lima. they are not made very well, but can be modified to play much better in tune. they sound fabulous. there is a long and short scale model of the resonator. they also made other instruments. |
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Robert B Murphy
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Mountain View, Arkansas, USA
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Posted 16 Apr 2022 6:02 pm
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This was before they had a web site. Sao Paulo is a frighteningly large city. You can't take a cab non-stop across town, just from the edges of one district to the next and hop-scotch your way across. When I flew out it seemed that 15 minutes after lift-off we were still over the city.
My interest certainly came from Chet. I have a close friend who played his guitar and said it had esentially been completely rebuilt. Your guitar has spectacular Brazilian Rosewood by the way. The ones on Del Vecchio's page are not nearly so figured. I think of it as looking like heavy cream poured into espresso without stirring it. Del Vecchio calls it Jacaranda but it's Dalbergia Nigra and not the other Jacaranda. It's a Brazillian thing. Wonderful people.
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Michael Brebes
From:
Northridge CA
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Posted 17 Apr 2022 7:00 am
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Interesting guitar. Usually don't see a biscuit bridge and cone in a wood body guitar.
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Michael Brebes
Instrument/amp/ pickup repair
MSA D10 Classic/Rickenbacher B6/
Dickerson MOTS/Dobro D32 Hawaiian/
Goldtone Paul Beard Reso
Mesa Boogie Studio Pre/Hafler 3000
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