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| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] The Wintergrass report | | Date: | Thursday, February 28, 2008 12:13:53 (-0600) | | From: | robert <rduke @...net>
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Very good report. I wish that I could've been there too.
Cheers,
Robert Duke - Whipmaker - DobroCowboy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Foote" <footet@evergreen.edu>
To: <resoguit-l@elistas.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 9:22 AM
Subject: [RESOGUIT-L] The Wintergrass report
> Yo, Resomaniacs!
>
> As you might expect, we had way-y-yy to much fun at Wintergrass this
> year.
> Rayco and Beard were there with their respective guitars. Paul Beard
> gave a fantastic workshop on the care and feeding of the resonator
> guitar. He told us you have to disassemble them every year for
> cleaning. He pointed out that some of us are so diligent about cleaning
> our cover plates that we hasten the build up of crud in the cone by
> rubbing that flannel cloth over the holes as we polish away the
> fingerprints.
> Paul said, "you all know what a cheese grater does, right?" as he moved
> the cloth back and forth over the coverplate... he was given a Beard
> guitar
> to clean that was just about one year old. When he got the cone out of
> the the gutiar, there was a huge dust bunny attached to one side of the
> cone dangling in the breeze... sigh--hh.. and this guitar was only a year
> old.. oh, well...
>
> The Beard booth was busy as many of us played the 2 versions of the
> new Jerry Douglas model guitar...very nice. There were also 2 MA 6
> Mike guitars.. a red one and a black one. I played all four of them and
> they were pretty terrific.
>
> Orville hung out Saturday at the Rayco booth and lots of folks dropped
> by to play the Rayco guitars. It was one long ongoing jam all day.
>
> The Resomania workshop was great fun. Orville Johnson didn't make it
> this year
> because he was playing with Laura Love and they had a gig in Seattle
> where they were doing a sound check while Resomania was happening
> in Tacoma. We did have Greg Booth with us, who played wonderful
> versions of Panhandle Rag and Here, There and Everywhere..
> not to mention Junior Brown's Peelin' Taters... a tune guaranteed
> to make you laugh when you hear it. We had an appreciative
> crowd and it was great fun. There were a fair number of reso players
> there this year... seemed like there was at least one in every
> jam.
>
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