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lbpesq
Senior Member Username: lbpesq
Post Number: 2932 Registered: 7-2004
| Posted on Thursday, February 07, 2008 - 9:05 pm: | |
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: | |
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: | |
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: | |
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: | |
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: | |
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: | |
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 We exchanged a few more emails, one of which had a link to the unpublished draft page---from which I grabbed the wallpaper.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: | |
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: | |
Hi Jason! |