February COTM

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Author Message 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 We exchanged a few more emails, one of which had a link to the unpublished draft page---from which I grabbed the wallpaper.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!