| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Rogue reso for beginner | | Date: | Friday, September 12, 2008 08:56:07 (+0900) | | From: | Hugh Ashton <resonator @.......com>
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| In reply to: | Message 9487 (written by D. Tannehill) |
I'd go along with what Dan just wrote. My Rogue was a great learning
instrument when I was deciding whether I really wanted to play or not.
However, I got through 2 tailpieces, and the tuners stripped their gears and
had to be replaced. I now keep it tuned to G6 and play it through a Lace
magnetic pickup. But the difference in tone and sustain when I moved up to a
GoldTone Beard was amazing, even when the Rogue is strung with decent
strings (the Beards sound best on it IMHO). But if you're not sure whether
the reso is for you, the Rogue is an excellent experimental instrument, I
think.
On 12/9/08 08:40, "D. Tannehill" <ephsmath-phys@cox.net> wrote:
> I've only heard one Rogue reso, and it was tuned and played Spannish style.
> But, it sounded OK I suppose. My wife has a Rogue mandolin. She started out
> to learn it, but it would never stay in tune, and sounded dreadful. It's
> been in the case for a couple of years now. Her fiddle gets daily workouts.
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> Bottom line is, Many of the assembly line instruments are just slapped
> together. Occasionally, purely by chance, the right combination of spider,
> cone, box, tailpiece, coverplate, nut and saddle come together to make a
> decent instrument, but more often than not, something is lacking.
Hugh
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