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  • TimmyOTimmyO Frets: 6976
    how come you don't see Resos used in Bluegrass that much? I'd have thought the volume welcome!



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  • TimmyOTimmyO Frets: 6976
    this Tenor Guitar sounds fantastic



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  • LewyLewy Frets: 3795
    edited November 2017
    TimmyO said:
    how come you don't see Resos used in Bluegrass that much? I'd have thought the volume welcome!
    The guitar’s role in a bluegrass ensemble is first and foremost to provide a rhythmic foundation that ties the whole sound together - musical grout if you will -  and big fat bass runs for punctuation. Resos don’t do either of those things very well. Plus you got mandolins and banjos in there - enough clank already. Basically the bluegrass guitar style sounds bad on them.

    The guy in the vid sounds great but he’s not really playing anything that would replace a flat top in a bluegrass setting. 

    Dobros are resos that are common in bluegrass of course, but again they don’t replace the flat top guitar.

    Fun fact: Bill Monroe was the architect of the sound that would come to be known as bluegrass. He had several guitar players over the years but whoever played guitar in his band played Bill's D28 on records and nothing else. That's the sound he wanted to hear and so that is what they played.
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  • TimmyOTimmyO Frets: 6976
    I see - it's a factor of the role of the guitar in that setting? Gotcha 
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  • Chris_JChris_J Frets: 138
    Jalapeno said:
    Chris_J said:

    I've a strong hankering for a Viellette, or something similar by Emerald guitars. In lieu of a 12 string.

    Have a listen to what Kaki King does with the big brother of that ^^^^^



    I will get a resonator again one day

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  • LewyLewy Frets: 3795
    edited November 2017
    TimmyO said:
    I see - it's a factor of the role of the guitar in that setting? Gotcha 
    Precisely. Closest equivalent I’d say is a brushed snare in a small jazz combo. You couldn’t do that with a washboard.
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  • BigLicks67BigLicks67 Frets: 763
    TimmyO said:
    this Tenor Guitar sounds fantastic



    Sounds great, but there doesn't seem to be many manufacturers of Tenors out there, so probably you'd be looking at boutique prices.
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