Members Freeman Keller Posted November 3, 2011 Members Share Posted November 3, 2011 Earlier this year I built two Weissenborn style guitar, one for a friend and local musician Mike Bills and one for myself. They are lovely curvy little things, all koa and maple Here is Mike playing his The are identical twins, made from the same piece of wood, same mold, same scale - everything, with one exception - one is braced in the traditional style with a big X, fairly big bridge plate and ladder braces while the other Twin has more modern tone bars and is a little more scalloped While Mike was at my house I asked him to play both and I recorded him (and them). I just started the little Zoom and let it run, these are clipped out of about 2 hours of jamming. Since he plays his plugged in we moved the soundhole pickup between them and did a little electric jamming too. Here are the clips in open G, open D and with the pickup in D. No2 _G.mp3 No1_D.mp3 No1 _ Elec.mp3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members poppytater Posted November 3, 2011 Members Share Posted November 3, 2011 Made me want to go down to the Delta:thu: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gitnoob Posted November 3, 2011 Members Share Posted November 3, 2011 I tried to listen closely for any differences, and I couldn't really hear any. Only the first two recordings seemed to give a good sense of the tone. Both sounded great to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LiveMusic Posted November 3, 2011 Members Share Posted November 3, 2011 Hey, that's cool, never heard one of that style git. Great job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Neal Posted November 3, 2011 Members Share Posted November 3, 2011 Made me want to go down to the Delta:thu: Makes me wanna learn lap.. (not dancing) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Terry Allan Hall Posted November 4, 2011 Members Share Posted November 4, 2011 Kinda figured they'd sound as good as they look...Freeman, you are an artist and a luthier... Many are one or the other, but only a few are both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TESmith Posted November 4, 2011 Members Share Posted November 4, 2011 Freeman, Wow, they did turn out Nice!So glad you shared! (Gotta admit they sounded pretty much alike to my worn out ears as well) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members knockwood Posted November 6, 2011 Members Share Posted November 6, 2011 Both look and sound gorgeous! No. 1 sounds a bit brighter to me overall, No. 2 a little darker and broodier. Pretty subtle, though. Two amazing pieces of work. You should be very proud, FK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tim Mcknight Posted November 7, 2011 Members Share Posted November 7, 2011 Very cool looking guitars Freeman. Just out of curiosity have you ever tried to fixture the guitar in such a way as if there is nothing touching the back and then play or record the instrument then compare that tone to the sound of it being played in the normal "lap position"? I know this is a very unconventional thought but it would be interesting to see if there was any discernible difference in the tone or projection with the back being damped or not.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Freeman Keller Posted November 7, 2011 Author Members Share Posted November 7, 2011 Very cool looking guitars Freeman. Just out of curiosity have you ever tried to fixture the guitar in such a way as if there is nothing touching the back and then play or record the instrument then compare that tone to the sound of it being played in the normal "lap position"? I know this is a very unconventional thought but it would be interesting to see if there was any discernible difference in the tone or projection with the back being damped or not.. Thank you, Tim. No, mainly because I can't see much point in doing that. These things were meant to be played on your lap - there really isn't any other way and whatever dampening comes from sitting on my fat belly is just part of the picture. As you know, they don't even have frets - they are just strips of maple inlayed to show position. I have fooled around with my other resonators which I can play both lap and Spanish style - any observations there would be colored by the fact that in one case the cone is facing away from you, in the other it is literally in your face. I really don't detect any significant change in the sound. And Tim, since you haven't been around much, I've got to show off the one that I'm really proud of - here is the Koa Twins big brother Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Greymuzzle Posted November 7, 2011 Members Share Posted November 7, 2011 Is there anywhere that two deltas meet at a crossroads? If so I would intend there directly after burglarizing FKs guitar collection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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