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Weissenborn Freeform


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Elevator_Funk

 Genre: Hawaiian

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I was in the mood to record and play some music, but right now I'm fed up with my regular wanna-be jazz offerings, cus I'm not happy with my recording set up. It's not a stellar lifechanging recording or anything, but I felt the need to play some music and get something out there in the world.

I recorded my weissenborn with the built in mics on my imac and compressed and equalized it in GB.

The song is one I made up. I don't play it much the only other tunes I know on it are a couple ben harper songs.

I got the weissenborn from one of my instructors at a school for building guitars. I saw him building a fancy koa wood weissenborn and offered him whatever he wanted for it (as I was a huge ben harper fan at the time), he said he had a practice model that he wasn't going to sell that he would give me for cost of materials, and I had to make the bridge, nut and install the tuners. Sounded like a good idea to me, so here it is, in all it's glory.
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Comments: 6
Fans: 2
Plays: 154
Downloads: 40
Votes: 3
Uploaded: Feb 20, 2008 - 11:09:16 AM
Last Updated: Feb 21, 2008 - 12:33:09 AM Last Played: Nov 16, 2009 - 09:14:37 PM
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Barretok said 645 days ago (February 20th, 2008)
Nice sound...
Very nice sound coming from that guitar. Sweet.
B
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Elevator_Funk said 645 days ago (February 21st, 2008)
thanks
thanks for the feedback. I appreciate it.
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sschedra said 644 days ago (February 21st, 2008)
Brian
Cool beans man. Great sound and good slide work. I am interested in the technique you used. I love slide work. What tuning, and it sounds like you fingered and used a slide bar at the same time, is that possible?

Thanks again,
Stephen
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Elevator_Funk said 644 days ago (February 21st, 2008)
hi
the tuning is D A D F# A D. the weissenborn sits on your lap and cannot be fretted and i used a typical steel bar from a guitar shop. I play the melody on the highest pitch D string and do the accompaniment on the rest of the strings. I don't use any finger picks either. That's all I know about it. Thanks for listening.
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said 644 days ago (February 21st, 2008)
Weissenborn Freeform
Sweet sound and nice rhythms!
Feter said 644 days ago (February 21st, 2008)
Weissenborn Freeform
sure a great tone for this guitar ..and lovin slide
style can be roduced out of and you done this so
right ...thnx alot for sharin !
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