Members Stackabones Posted April 8, 2011 Members Share Posted April 8, 2011 [video=youtube;jQaSGAxIGkc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQaSGAxIGkc&feature=related Ya got to get down, Pig! What's that 12-fretter Ry is pickin' on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gitnoob Posted April 8, 2011 Members Share Posted April 8, 2011 Gibson? He lists a Roy Smeck on his git page, but it has different fret markers:http://www.rycooder.nl/pages/ry_cooder_Instruments_gear_amps_effects.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Stackabones Posted April 8, 2011 Author Members Share Posted April 8, 2011 Yeah, that could be it! Ry who? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Greymuzzle Posted April 8, 2011 Members Share Posted April 8, 2011 Stack... It's Wry Cooter y'eejit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members larry50 Posted April 8, 2011 Members Share Posted April 8, 2011 Looks like a J-45 to me. Great post BTW. Cooder makes everything look so easy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Terry Allan Hall Posted April 9, 2011 Members Share Posted April 9, 2011 Looks like a J-45 to me. Great post BTW. Cooder makes everything look so easy. Did Gibson ever make a 12-fret J-45? It's a Roy Smeck Stage Deluxe, like this one. A Hawaiian guitar converted into a "Spanish" guitar. Here's a Roy Smeck Radio Grande, w/ inlays like the one from that Cooter page...different model of a Roy Smeck (he was one of the first "Guitar Heros", btw, from the vaudeville days)... Note this, from that page, also.: The instruments shown above are samples of the mentioned guitars. They are not Ry's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members riffmeister Posted April 9, 2011 Members Share Posted April 9, 2011 In addition to his effortless playing, one of the things that's always amazed me about Ry Cooder is his name. Ry? Cooder? What a great combo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Stackabones Posted April 9, 2011 Author Members Share Posted April 9, 2011 Good guitar sleuthing, TAH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members larry50 Posted April 9, 2011 Members Share Posted April 9, 2011 Did Gibson ever make a 12-fret J-45?It's a Roy Smeck Stage Deluxe, like this one. A Hawaiian guitar converted into a "Spanish" guitar ... Ah hah. Thanks Terry. I stand corrected. I wasn't observant enough to see that it was a 12 fretter. IIRC, T-Bone Burnett plays a Roy Smeck as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Terry Allan Hall Posted April 9, 2011 Members Share Posted April 9, 2011 Ah hah. Thanks Terry. I stand corrected. I wasn't observant enough to see that it was a 12 fretter.IIRC, T-Bone Burnett plays a Roy Smeck as well. Yeah, as does Jackson Browne...guess there's just something about taking down the neck of a square necked Hawaiian and converting it into a Spanish... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LeonardScaper Posted April 10, 2011 Members Share Posted April 10, 2011 What's that 12-fretter Ry is pickin' on? Looked like an old Gibson to me too........had that dry rattle that makes my old Kalamazoo such a bear to record cleanly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Terry Allan Hall Posted April 10, 2011 Members Share Posted April 10, 2011 Looked like an old Gibson to me too........had that dry rattle that makes my old Kalamazoo such a bear to record cleanly. Your Kalamazoo was made by Gibson, during the Depression, but had a few cost cutting features, to make them a bit more affordable, like no truss rod...otoh, I've never seen one w/ a badly warped neck. A buddy of mine found one, a KG-14 flat-top, at a yardsale, and now has 7 Kalamazoos, 3 being archtops...it's amazing that these can be still found at reasonable prices, while the Gibson versions (which are almost identical in every way) are astronomically priced! This is the Kalamazoo version of the Roy Smeck Hawaiian, the KHG-11: He's been searching for one of these INTENTLY...possibly they weren't made in very large quantities, while the archtops are much easier to find down here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LeonardScaper Posted April 10, 2011 Members Share Posted April 10, 2011 Yeah, Terry, mine is a bit of an odd one I think........a '33, by most accounts, with the all mahogany build that was typical of the Gibsons of that year. Has a very similar sound to the one Mr. Cooder was playing. Could stand a neck reset but I don't want to mess with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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