I’ve recently become fascinated with the Fender Telecaster, a guitar design I’ve neither owned nor even played. Why the fascination with a guitar I’ve never owned? Well one reason might be the following Julian Lage video. Sometime during the past five years, I saw Julian Lage play a concert. I…
I recently got hooked on the controversy over the PRS Silver Sky guitar. The guitar was designed for John Mayer by Paul Reed Smith. Mayer wanted to improve upon the best features of his favorite 60’s Strats and had lost faith in Fender to meet his needs. Since its introduction…
I promise this will be the last post on resonator and slide guitar music for awhile. But I felt the need to give you some jazz tunes played on resonator guitars or electric guitar with slide after the previous post which covered jazz on lap steel dobro. Tuba Skinny Tuba…
Although single-cone spider bridge resonators are my least favorite type of resonator guitar, I’ve still been listening to a lot of dobro music recently. Of course, my tastes run to jazz. I recently published a list of non-dobro music resonator music. Today’s post balances the content and provides you with…
I recently wrote how I was trying to talk myself out of purchasing another resonator guitar. It didn’t work. I am now the owner of a Gretsch G9240 Alligator resonator guitar and I couldn’t be happier. Here’s a review of the instrument. The Alligator is a wood-bodied, single cone, biscuit…
The topic of today’s post is to discuss factors to be considered when buying a resonator guitar. I’ve discussed much of this previously because I love resonator guitars. But the goal of this article is to talk myself out of purchasing another resonator. Let’s start with the answer to a…
I purchased a Morrell 6-String Pro lap steel guitar after the Recording King lap steel I attempted to buy was back-ordered beyond my patience to wait. I am fairly happy with the Morrell guitar, but not entirely so. There was a slight hum when I played the guitar through any…
I’ve been putting off adjusting the action on my wood bodied tricone resonator guitar. The action has been on the high side of acceptable since I purchased the Royal guitar from Imperial Guitars. Then, last week, an internal post came loose after changing the tuning. I couldn’t have the post…
A general rule for guitarists who want to change from standard to an opening tuning is to tune down for acoustic guitar and up for electric. The two most popular open tunings, especially for slide, are Spanish and Vestapol, named after tunes once popularly played in those tunings. Spanish tuning…
I’m getting a lap steel guitar soon. I can’t wait. In the meantime, I’ll share some information regarding steel guitars. This is what makes a guitar a Steel Guitar A steel is a name for the metal slide used when playing guitar horizontally, e.g. on your lap. Thus, any guitar…
