Posted by paul
on January 8, 2009, 7:15 pm, in reply to "Looking for a good guitar for slide and old-time blues"
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i bought a guitar off ebay, a regal parlor slot-head... was made in the USA in the 30' (green regal stick on headstock) it has some cracks, was misrepresented on ebay, its not so pretty, but the sound of any slide be it glass, brass, chrome, no matter your technique, it has the delta slide sound like it or not. in my 40 years it only one of a few that has this voice. I gig with many Fred McDowell tunes and use a Regal archtop, sounds very much like the guitar he used during his Lomax recordings. with the archtop i don't use a thumb and a fingerpick as Fred did but have tough finger tips and keep my fingernails long enough for picking if the sound from my flesh is too fat. Keep working on it, most people who are introduced to the sound of delta slide with some picking thrown in are fascinated, but not as much as i always am....
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: I play two guitars: a Dean Chrome S resonator
: (which sounds great for slide and/or
: non-slide open tunings), and a Taylor 410ce
: dreadnought for non-slide (which sounds
: great for non-slide standard tuning).
:
: I also pluck around on an Ibanez dreadnought
: which doesn't sound nearly as good as either
: of the above.
:
: But it sounds pretty good set up for slide
: (this setup involves slightly higher action
: and heavier strings, especially in the high
: string). Set up this way, the Ibanez
: provides a nice middle ground between the
: slicing resonator sound and the warm
: dreadnought.
:
: I am thinking about getting another quality
: guitar and setting it up for slide (I would
: also play non-slide open tunings on it).
: Any suggestions as to some good ones? I
: have been told to consider a smaller guitar,
: maybe even a parlor model -- can anyone
: offer first-hand experience playing slide on
: one of these?
:
: I have heard that Martin guitars are not
: good for blues -- opinions?
:
: Regards,
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