| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Ordering A Custom Dream Reso | | Date: | Tuesday, March 27, 2007 17:19:35 (-0400) | | From: | Bill McCloskey <mccloskey @.....com>
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I've played a lot of high end resos. They were all good. They were all
different. Some as different as night and day. When I first played the Mike
Auldridge Beard, I fell in love: just like that. I had never heard any
instrument that sounded as good. I've since had the opportunity to compare
it to 2 sheerhorns, Model D Resophonic, a Clinesmith, and countless others.
I thought all those instruments sounded great. None of them sounded better
than my MA. Some (the scheerhorns) sounded similar but not better. Some
sounded very different and unique, but nothing I'd trade the MA for.
That said, it doesn't mean I don't look at every reso for sale on Ebay.
There are a couple I'm watching now that look sweet.
On 3/27/07, Lennie Harvey <lh@lennieharvey.com> wrote:
>
> Frank Zappa said "if you pick up a guitar and it says 'take me i'm yours',
> then that's the one for you".
>
> Doesn't help much when you are ordering a custom guitar.
>
> Doesn't help much if the guitar that speaks to you belongs to someone
> else.
> If that happens, resist the urge to steal it. Stealing is wrong.
>
> But you can find out what you like by meeting up with lots of reso players
> and swapping instruments around.
>
> I bought my Scheerhorn after watching Tim working on my busted up
> Holoubek.
> I had been totally sceptical about the cost of his instruments before I
> met
> him, but the care and attention he showed when fixing up what is
> effectively
> a more or less direct copy of his early guitars was incredibly impressive.
> As was the sense of a personal connection to each instrument he builds...
>
> Good karma... can't be beat. I've bought lots of guitars over the years
> and
> I've still got the ones that spoke to me in some way. Green strat,
> Collings
> D2H, the 'horn and a Lowden Jumbo are all completely irreplaceable and
> feel
> a part of me.
>
> Jerry's new Beard looked absoultely stunning!
>
> Happy hunting
>
>
> Lennie
>
>
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