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I have no idea what you're on about, but I'd gladly volunteer to be Emmylou's guitar tech.
I'll put in a good word for you if I don't get the gig. In the meantime, just listen to the big sound of that guitar in the video.
Sarah, you must come to Milwaukee's Discovery World museum for the Les Paul House of Sound exhibit...http://www.discoveryworld.org/lespaul...
I think it's permanent. He was from just outside Milwaukee so the locals like to make a big deal over Mr. Paul.
Wow oh wow. I found really nice song on that same site--Iris Dement and Emmylou doing "Our Town."
RandomAnthony wrote: "I think it's permanent. He was from just outside Milwaukee so the locals like to make a big deal over Mr. Paul."My friend Nita is a jazz singer and got to sit in with him at his weekly gig a couple of years before he died.
And Cynthia, I hadn't seen that site before but there were some excellent videos on there.
How do you play with no frets? Kinda like a violin? Wow she's talented...
Speaking of guitar geekery, Eric Clapton is selling 70 guitars today: http://www.luxist.com/2011/02/17/luxi...
Hanna wrote: "How do you play with no frets? Kinda like a violin? Wow she's talented..."You don't fret the special string at all. You just let it ring.
Her guitar is in an open tuning, which means that if you strum it with no hand on the neck, it is tuned to a chord. It'll sound like music even without putting a hand on it. Instead of the usual EADGBE, open A is usually EAEAC#E which is an A chord.
BUT it would sound even better with the bottom string tuned to A instead of E, but if you do that, the string flops and rattles.
So what they did was they took away the normal bottom string entirely and put on this special one that is a little longer and probably a different gauge and can be tuned to A without buzzing.
Urge to own that Clapton Guitar is contagious, scientists find...http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/09/sci...
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First off, yowza.
Secondly, check out her guitar.
It's a Borges "mini-harp" made specially for her. She plays the song in open A, but open A makes the low string buzz and rattle. So they replaced it with a droning A string - no frets.
Want. Want. Want.