| Subject: | RE: [RESOGUIT-L] Newbie | | Date: | Friday, November 25, 2005 11:02:58 (-0800) | | From: | Pete Grant <pete @.........com>
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> I notice that almost everyone plays wood body square necks.
> Did I screw up? Does anyone play metal body resos?
The following is a long-winded way of saying yes.
In 1976, I started playing 10-string dobro, tuned much like a pedal steel
guitar. The only one available had a really puny sound. It was OK in the studio
(there's one cut on the second Guy Clark album with that very dobro, and a cut
on "Zoo Blues" by Robin Williamson and His Merry Band, and the sound is passable
on both), but waayyyy puny and would be drowned out if any other instrument
played over a whisper. It turns out that OMI had never heard a 10-string dobro
played, so when I visited the factory in 1978, played for Ron Lazar, and voiced
my reservations about the instrument, he thought that a metal-bodied Dobro
(still with spider bridge) would work well for me. He built it, and it was a
clearly better sound. Shameless plug: That instrument can be heard on "Skippin'
Stones" on my "Greetings From California and Beyond" album. It was brighter and
louder. I later sold that 10-string after my Zephyr was built.
I've also played 6-string metal-bodies resos with spider bridges that sounded
great. Disclaimer: It would be a real stretch to call me a bluegrass dobro
player.
Pete Grant
Auburn, California
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