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lbpesq
Senior Member
Username: lbpesq

Post Number: 2932
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Thursday, February 07, 2008 - 9:05 pm:   Edit Post

George:

Congrats! Beautiful instrument. As a fellow Alembic 12 string player, we are perhaps the most unique subset of this club. I'll bet it sounds incredible! A very deserving choice. I suspect you'll have new wallpaper on your computer tomorrow.

Bill tgo
jacko
Senior Member
Username: jacko

Post Number: 1625
Registered: 10-2002
Posted on Friday, February 08, 2008 - 4:36 am:   Edit Post

Congratulations George. That's probably the most beautiful guitar I've ever seen (sorry Bill).

graeme
artswork99
Advanced Member
Username: artswork99

Post Number: 278
Registered: 7-2007
Posted on Friday, February 08, 2008 - 5:33 am:   Edit Post

Very nice George. Beautiful instrument! Congratulations.
Play it healthy!
Art
georgie_boy
Advanced Member
Username: georgie_boy

Post Number: 386
Registered: 8-2005
Posted on Friday, February 08, 2008 - 11:10 am:   Edit Post

Seconded from another Scottish guy!

G
davehouck
Moderator
Username: davehouck

Post Number: 6157
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Friday, February 08, 2008 - 12:48 pm:   Edit Post

Beautiful!!!

The video of Kottke playing Louise was pretty cool too!!
rami
Senior Member
Username: rami

Post Number: 749
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Saturday, February 09, 2008 - 6:38 am:   Edit Post

Just beautiful - a 12 string baritone guitar!!! I can only imagine how it sounds.

Wow!!!
george_wright
Intermediate Member
Username: george_wright

Post Number: 123
Registered: 3-2005
Posted on Sunday, February 10, 2008 - 10:25 am:   Edit Post

Thanks for the appreciative words, folks, but I think the credit has to go to the builders :-)!

As for the wallpaper, Bill, I've had it up for several weeks. I suspect you might have had a similar experience....

One mid-January morning I found a message from Mica in my email queue with the subject "Featured Custom." She said she was planning on featuring the baritone in February. We exchanged a few more emails, one of which had a link to the unpublished draft page---from which I grabbed the wallpaper.

It was strange in the last week of January and the first week of February, waiting for it to be published. I felt like I could foretell the future. When it finally appeared, it took me a moment to realize it.

So.... If my experience is any guide, one of you out there can look forward to an email from Mica in just about a week. Your challenge will then be to keep things to yourself until the March COTM appears.

Rami, as for how it sounds, well, it can sound pretty dang authoritative :-). Since it's tuned B E A D F# B, I can drop the low string down to A for a drop A tuning. That low A is the same pitch as the A on a bass. When I play it that way through my Acme Low B4, it's all there, in spades.
jason
Moderator
Username: jason

Post Number: 78
Registered: 1-2007
Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 4:04 pm:   Edit Post

Bill, you have played this instrument. This is the one I was raving about the sound of, and made you play it.

(Had to twist his arm real 'ard, I did!)
davehouck
Moderator
Username: davehouck

Post Number: 6202
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 7:43 pm:   Edit Post

Hi Jason!

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