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Topic: Documentary on Willie's guitar Trigger |
robert kramer
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Nashville TN
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Tom Keller
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Greeneville, TN, USA
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Posted 13 Feb 2015 12:32 pm |
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I don't see how you can have a documentary on Willie's guitar without mentioning the prismatone pickup? Disappointing piece of fluff.
Tom |
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Jerome Hawkes
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Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 14 Feb 2015 4:59 am
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| Tom Keller wrote: |
I don't see how you can have a documentary on Willie's guitar without mentioning the prismatone pickup? Disappointing piece of fluff.
Tom |
i will agree with you on that - its the Baldwin Prismatone along with the same Baldwin amp (i'm sure he has a few of these) he has used since the day he got trigger - its all one unit imo.
even the high holy vintage guitar snobs have no clue about the prismatone - i was at a big guitar show about 5 years ago and there on the 'bargain' table was a Baldwin 801 with a prismatone for $125...i snatched that up real fast and the dealer was like, who would want that POS. i sold it a month later for $1200.
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Mark Carlisle
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Springville CA
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Posted 14 Feb 2015 9:28 am
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Even though it was rather "fluffy", thanks for posting. Amazing that guitar has held together. I wouldn't want to be his guitar tech!
I found it interesting that Willie was trying to get closer to the Django sound, and found it in a nylon string classical. The Selmers were steel string (although they did produce a nylon model-worth far less in the collector word) The original Selmers are fetching 30K+ in the vintage guitar market now. Perhaps the tone he found with the Baldwin had something to do with the bracing, which was similar to a classical on the Selmers, as Maccaferri the designer was a classical player. |
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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