| What do you play on your Weissenborn ? |
| Hawaiian |
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55% |
[ 5 ] |
| Western Swing |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| Country & Western |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| Blues |
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22% |
[ 2 ] |
| Jazz |
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11% |
[ 1 ] |
| Swing |
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11% |
[ 1 ] |
| Bluegrass |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
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| Total Votes : 9 |
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Topic: What Sort of Music do you Play on your Weissenborn ? |
Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 23 Dec 2008 6:17 pm |
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I've heard all sorts of discussions about the sound and tone of Weissenborn-shaped guitars, but no-one ever mentions what he uses it for. For those of you who play Weissenborns, what do you play mainly ?
(If you play everything, just state your main use.) |
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Ben Elder
From:
La Crescenta, California, USA
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Posted 24 Dec 2008 2:03 am From the closet to a dive...
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Folky sly singer-songwriter stuff...while trying to shun the near-irresistible urge to become a pathetic David Lindley imitator. (Which is to say None of the Above.)
Best...Weissenborn...Song...Ever: ... Nah-h...someday I may want to play someplace that's not my closet.
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Chris Drew
From:
Bristol, UK
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Posted 24 Dec 2008 4:27 am
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I'm not really sure how to vote on that poll, Alan...
I've only been playing (acoustic) steel for a couple of years, having come from a musical background a million miles away from any of the genres listed in your poll.
I consider myself woefully uneducated in the field of genres commonly played on steel guitar, but I'm trying to soak up all I can!
I find I'm mostly drawn to playing country/bluesy rags in the "American Primitive" style since i stumbled upon John Fahey for the first time 2 years back.
I also like to play what I'd call "spiritual-sounding" maybe Gospel-inspired improvised stuff.
Then again I also find myself playing in a kind of Folk-Jazz-SeaShanty style, if such a thing exists!
Maybe to accomodate awkward sods like me & to further muddy the waters, you should add "other" to your poll-list! 
Whatever, I'm just glad to have found this wonderful and expressive instrument... and this excellent forum with it's seemingly bottomless well of knowledge, experience, advice & history..!..  |
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HowardR
From:
N.Y.C.-Fire Island-Asheville
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Posted 24 Dec 2008 7:06 am
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I play the same music on my Weissenborns that I play on my resophonics and steels.......lousy!.......
I keep open D tuning on them and just really noodle or "invent" bluesy folksy type things..... |
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Rickey Mitchell
From:
Fresno the center of California
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Posted 24 Dec 2008 9:50 am
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The Weissienborn is the reason I started playing lapsteel. I'd always been a content slide player, I still am. But I saw Mr Dave preform one night and the sound was incredible. I've always played blues and jazz, nothing has changed.
Merry Christmas to all.
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paddleandflies.com |
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Fred Kinbom
From:
Berlin, Germany, via Stockholm, Sweden.
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 24 Dec 2008 2:58 pm
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| Chris Drew wrote: |
| ...Maybe to accomodate awkward sods like me & to further muddy the waters, you should add "other" to your poll-list! |
I did add an "Other" category, but for some reason only the first seven show up on the screen.  |
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