| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L]I don't see why... | | Date: | Thursday, March 30, 2006 23:13:29 (+0000) | | From: | s.cassadyjr <s.cassadyjr @...net>
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I had opportunity to play an old National steel-body biscuit-cone square-neck
some years back. As others have pointed out, the tone is much more banjo-like
than either a spider cone or tri-cone. The bass is full sounding. As you move to
the trebles and especially up the neck, the tone becomes more fundamental, not as
complex harmonically. Also the biscuit cone is quite a bit lighter than a spider
cone or tri-cone. This makes it loud and responsive, but shorter on sustain,
especially up the neck. If you are playing blazing fast rolls, hammer-ons, and
pull-offs where you'd like each note to stand out, it would be a great choice. If
you need long sustain with vibrato, it probably wouldn't do as well.
National Reso-Phonic will put a square neck on most of their guitars at no extra
charge. They make single cones and tri-cones in both brass and steel, and there
is quite a bit of difference in the sound between the two metals. They sell a CD
audio catalog where you can hear them all for comparison.
-------------- Original message from mikelist <mikelist@tds.net>: --------------
> Tim Mallery wrote:
>
> >This type of guitar (square neck/metal body/biscuit bridge) have been around
> >since the late 1920's. Nothing new here...
> >
> >For playing blues on a square neck, this type of guitar is great. Obviously,
> >you wouldn't play bluegrass on it.
> >
> >
> 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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