By The Waters Of Minnetonka - Video

[Jack Hanson]

Outstanding! You nailed it, Sebastian. Made my day! I worked on that tune for months and months after I first heard it on the old Hula Blues LP on Rounder. Sure wish Jim & Bob had made more recordings, as they were just terrific. That tune is one of the main inspirations for me to sell my Pro I and use the funds to purchase a '29 Style-1. One of the handful of good decisions I have ever made. (The National holds it tuning; that Sho-Bud never would after lowering or raising the high E.)

By The Waters Of The Minnetonka is a special song for me, as some of the best moments of my life occurred during the five years I spent living on a 5-acre island on Lake Minnetonka in the mid-seventies. It's changed alot since then.



Haven't played that song in years -- I'm gonna dig out the old tri-cone and see if I still can. Thanks for sharing!

[Joe Elk]

Very Very Nice!!!!
Joe Elk Central Ohio

[Steven Cummings]

quite nice

[L. Bogue Sandberg]

Awesome rendition, Sebastian! In my wildest dreams, I couldn't pull that off.

I shared the link with my son, a professional sax player in the Twin Cities. He and a friend fish for muskellunge on Lake Minnetonka. Maybe the muskies would like it if they heard it from the boat.

[Erv Niehaus]

I haven't seen plastic finger picks used in quite a while.
I started out with plastic finger picks and the A high bass tuning also.
Erv

[Jack Hanson]

I haven't seen plastic finger picks used in quite a while.
I started out with plastic finger picks and the A high bass tuning also.
Erv

Sometime in the latter part of the last century I attended a Bob Brozman seminar at the Homestead Pickin' Parlor in Richfield, MN. He convinced me to give the plastic picks a try. It's a time-consuming pain in the butt to get 'em shaped correctly, and there's a high rate of attrition in the process. But once you get 'em right, there's no comparison to the volume you can pull out an acoustic instrument, resonators esepecially, with plastic instead of metal picks. I still favor the metal picks on electrics, but for my Nationals and my Dobro, plastic picks are the ticket.

[Erv Niehaus]

I found them to be rather thick and clumsy.
Erv

[Jack Hanson]

I found them to be rather thick and clumsy.
Erv

There is a learning curve, no doubt. But the same can be said for the metal ones when you're first starting out. Once you get used to 'em, you can really dig in and get some sound out of plastic fingerpicks. If I attempted to play as hard with metal ones as I do with plastic, there'd be .025 Dunlops scootin' across the room faster'n you could say "Jack Robinson."

[Todd Clinesmith]

Well done .
Thanks for posting this.

[Joe Breeden]

Shut my mouth Sebastain. Man what super playing on a great song. Dreaming I could do that. On the plastic pics; will give them a try. Look what Sebastain can make them do. Joe















whish I could do that

[Joe Breeden]

This is a P.S., I guess. What type of bridge on your guitar?

[Eric Gross]

Wow, that's great playing, thanks for posting that Sebastian!

[David Matzenik]

That is some fine playing, and very nicely recorded.

[C. E. Jackson]

Great playing. Really enjoyed that. That is the tuning I used from 1949 until the 1970's.

C. E. Jackson

[Lee Holliday]

Just a question on string gauges for this tuning, on the tricone what do you use Sebastian, maybe I am too cautious and the old style 2 can take it????
Regards Lee

[Mike Anderson]

What a really cool tune by those Genial Hawaiians, beautifully executed as always!