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Topic: From the Sublime to the...(Tricone content) |
Geoff Cline
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Southwest France
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Posted 6 Aug 2009 9:59 am |
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Howard's post with his beautiful Style 4 is the sublime. This is from the "alt-beauty" end of the spectrum--my "new" '41 National M-3 tricone. She's literally been through the war (and arrived with fully corroded cones) but after a set of National-Resophonic's new "hot rod" cones she is singing sweetly. I am thrilled with the sounds.
The steel/bar is from the 30's and came with an old Dobro that I had. I wish I could find another like it...full of mojo and a joy to play with.
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John Billings
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Ohio, USA
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Posted 6 Aug 2009 10:25 am
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| I love it! Think it looks great! I have a Johnson that I bought for $150 when they discontinued that model. I figured I could take it anywhere, leave it out in the yard overnight, whatever. But I'm sick of the sickly green paint. So I'ma gonna strip the paint off, and hang the body in a tree for awhile. If that doesn't do the job, I've got some Plum Brown from the gun shop. Hope it comes out lookin' as good as yours! It's never sound as good though, I'm sure! |
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Dennis Brooker
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Iowa, USA
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Posted 6 Aug 2009 10:52 am
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| Geoff - If only that guitar could talk and tell stories about the songs it's played and who played them - Nice one - DB |
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HowardR
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N.Y.C.-Fire Island-Asheville
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Posted 6 Aug 2009 2:20 pm
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They're all beautiful......bare bottom or bells & whistles......and yours has an inner beauty.....
And very true.....you can take it wherever and not have to be too concerned with a ding, a scratch, or a smudge....it blends in with the rest of them..... |
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Geoff Cline
From:
Southwest France
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Posted 7 Aug 2009 8:07 am
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Yes. She's a beauty inside and out. Word is it belonged to a bluesman from Mississippi who played a bunch in Louisiana. The guitar was "as is" (except for the cones) in his closet when he died.
It is a good match, aesthetically and tonally, to my '31 "Sears & Roebuck" Duolian...distinguished from its National kin by the 5 sets of holes on the cover plate (rather than the usual 9). A perfect round neck resonator bottleneck slide guitar.
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