| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L]I don't see why... | | Date: | Thursday, March 30, 2006 14:57:35 (-0500) | | From: | mikelist <mikelist @...net>
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| In reply to: | Message 3412 (written by Tim Mallery) |
Tim Mallery wrote:
>This type of guitar (square neck/metal body/biscuit bridge) have been around
>since the late 1920's. Nothing new here...
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>For playing blues on a square neck, this type of guitar is great. Obviously,
>you wouldn't play bluegrass on it.
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you couldn't play bluegrass with it. It has a tone more approaching a
banjo, and would probably sound good on banjo breakdowns, and similar. I
had a brass-bodied OMI duolian cone dobro, it wasn't as sweet as a
spider-bridge instrument, but more complex tone than you might imagine.
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