8-String Acoustic Hawaiian Guitar
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8-String Acoustic Hawaiian Guitar
In an effort to improve the tone of the Hawaiian Guitar I designed and built this instrument about two years ago. The body is much bigger than a jumbo guitar, the bridge that I built from scratch is moved down towards the bottom of the table, which, in order to retain the string length, shortens the neck. Like a Weissenborn, this makes almost the whole body a resonant chamber. The sound is much sweeter than a Dobro, but is not very loud. With all the sound reflections going on inside the body it sounds like an acoustic version of an echo chamber, so there are a lot of overtones. The internal barring is fanned out from under the bridge, but because the bridge is further back it looks quite different inside than a Martin or a classical.
(The lining is much better than it looks in the photo...)
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No, at the time I recorded those CD's I hadn't built this instrument. Now that there's some interest I'll record something. Thanks for offering to host the soundclips.basilh wrote:Alan, on any of those wonderful CD's you sent to me, is there a track with this guitar on it? If so, I can post a link to the sound-file.
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