| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Deacon Brumfield and Double Thumbing | | Date: | Wednesday, July 4, 2007 18:10:09 (-0400) | | From: | Bill Woolet <dobguit @.........net>
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At the Gathering 2005, I too, had the wonderful experience of playing
"Herman". I was "only" 79 at the time, but could not have had a more awsome
experience had I actually held the real Holy Grail in my hands.
Bill Woolet Dobguit@bellsouth.net
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Subject: Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Deacon Brumfield and Double Thumbing
>I have a picture on my front room-office-rehearsal-studio, of you Jim,
>playing that Oswald Dobro at a festival. The expression on your face, Jim
>is just wonderful to see. You look like you are experiencing the
>equivalent of a meeting with St. Peter!
>
> "Herman" is indeed the "Holy Grail" of Dobros.
>
> Richie
>
> ps....see? I'm not the only one who names his guitars.......O;-)
>
> -------------- Original message --------------
> From: "Jim Warren" <dobro87@comcast.net>
>
>> That's right Larue, Oswald lives on in Mike Webb. Os' taught him how to
>> do
>> it.
>> That is Oswald's old Dobro that he played with Roy Acuff for over 50
>> years.
>> I've played it myself, and it sounds just like that ! Got some magic it
>> it for
>> sure.
>> Thanks for the kind words. I agree,this is a great list. Jim Warren
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From:
>> To:
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>> Holy beheysoosusias Mr. Warren, that's GRAND (youtube of Mike Webb)!!!
>>
>> Mike Webb simply KILLS it and it's there for us to look at and practice.
>>
>> Thumbs, rolls, slants here n there, UP THE NECK, WAY UP, and more.
>>
>> Uh, I'm assumin Mike Webb IS the dobro player?
>>
>> Thanks again Jim . . . like so many others in here, the gems you share
>> are a
>> treasure for us
>> who were never there, then . . .
>>
>> Hey, Jim, I put bronze wound Beard strings on that old Johnson, cut out a
>> good
>> chunk of
>> the soundwell toward the nut from 10 to 2, and took out the screens!
>>
>> With a good setup on nut an bridge now, you wouldn't RECOGNIZE it!!
>>
>> *G*
>>
>> But man, that one time you were here, you made that scrap piece sing like
>> I
>> never have.
>>
>> THANKS!
>>
>> (Twangs never works the left coast . . . I'm just sayin . . . ) ;-)
>>
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>
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