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I'll just leave this here ...
« on: September 29, 2023, 12:41:50 PM »


Never noticed that album cover before. Is that a steel guitar or are you supposed to play it via fretting from above, double-bass high register access style?
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Re: I'll just leave this here ...
« Reply #1 on: October 06, 2023, 03:49:24 PM »
Thumb position skills will not help you here. It's just a stupid instrument.
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« Reply #2 on: October 08, 2023, 01:01:55 PM »
Looks to me like upper body exercise and little more.
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Re: I'll just leave this here ...
« Reply #3 on: October 09, 2023, 10:04:55 AM »
No Uwe, I'm not going to build that for you. :rimshot:

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« Reply #4 on: October 09, 2023, 02:58:23 PM »
You've never been reliable for anything.
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« Reply #5 on: October 09, 2023, 10:53:45 PM »
Yup, you can always count on me to be unreliable :mrgreen:

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« Reply #6 on: October 10, 2023, 03:34:56 AM »
I guess he must have given up on the guitar seeing a pair of bridge post holes located further towards the neck ont that shortscale bass. I would've rather given up on that neckless instrument.

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« Reply #7 on: October 10, 2023, 08:30:47 AM »
Perhaps he wanted to create an open tuning drone/feedback with it? Like Page did with the 12-string of his SG double-neck.
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« Reply #8 on: October 10, 2023, 08:59:50 AM »
Back when mahogany was cheap and expendable!

Middle neck looks like it had a shorter scale length at some point? John Birch pickup in the same sort of surround as Tony Iommi's modded 'Monkey' SG.

Also looks like the slide neck can only be tuned with piano pegs?

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« Reply #9 on: December 13, 2023, 05:52:21 AM »
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« Reply #10 on: December 13, 2023, 08:11:38 AM »
I thought it was only fair that we all got to see and hear the man in action!


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« Reply #11 on: January 10, 2024, 11:35:04 PM »
Well, it's catchy!
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