Members Stackabones Posted January 1, 2009 Members Share Posted January 1, 2009 [YOUTUBE]thFoVNPMXr8[/YOUTUBE] Check out the wear on that thing! Amazing, timeless performance. IIRC it's a Kay. Don't know about that pickup. He also used a flat top. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lauren Posted January 1, 2009 Members Share Posted January 1, 2009 an inspiration to wake up to in 2009:thu: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Terry Allan Hall Posted January 1, 2009 Members Share Posted January 1, 2009 Big Joe and his Harmony H6560 Both instruments used DeArmond archtop p/us...I've heard that the same unit was used for both guitars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tkris Posted January 1, 2009 Members Share Posted January 1, 2009 very nice. never heard of a 9-string. is that like turning the amp up to 11? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lauren Posted January 1, 2009 Members Share Posted January 1, 2009 very nice. never heard of a 9-string. is that like turning the amp up to 11? i wondered about the whole 9 string thing, are they on top of the headstock? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Stackabones Posted January 1, 2009 Author Members Share Posted January 1, 2009 i wondered about the whole 9 string thing, are they on top of the headstock? Yes ... it's a custom job that iirc he did himself so that no else could play his guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lauren Posted January 1, 2009 Members Share Posted January 1, 2009 Yes ... it's a custom job that iirc he did himself so that no else could play his guitar. cool... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MattSkibaIsGOD Posted January 1, 2009 Members Share Posted January 1, 2009 where do the other strings go? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tkris Posted January 1, 2009 Members Share Posted January 1, 2009 from wikipedia: Big Joe's guitar playing is decidedly in the Delta Blues style, and yet is unique. He played driving rhythm and virtuosic lead lines simultaneously and sang over it all. He played with picks both on his thumb and index finger, plus his guitar was very heavily modified. Williams added a rudimentary electric pick-up, whose wires coiled all over the top of his guitar. He also added three extra strings, creating unison pairs for the first, second and fourth strings. His guitar was usually tuned to Open G, like such: (D2 G2 D3D3 G3 B3B3 D4D4), with a capo placed on the second fret to set the tuning to the key of A. During the 1920s and 1930s, Big Joe had gradually added these extra strings in order to keep other guitar players from being able to play his guitar. In his later years, he would also occasionally use a 12-string guitar with all strings tuned in unison to Open G. It is little known that Big Joe sometimes tuned a six-string guitar to an interesting modification of Open G. In this modified tuning, the bass D string (D2) was replaced with a .08 gauge string and tuned to G4. The resulting tuning was (G4 G2 D3 G3 B3 D4), with the G4 string being used as a melody string by Big Joe. This tuning was used exclusively for slide playing. He was inducted into the W. C. Handy Blues Hall of Fame on October 4, 1992. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members guitarcapo Posted January 1, 2009 Members Share Posted January 1, 2009 It sounds like he just doubled up the top 3 but hard to say I couldn't tell. BTW I SEE your Big Joe Williams and RAISE you one Robert Pete Williams and his Harmony Sovereign: [YOUTUBE]thOH7ebGkhQ[/YOUTUBE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members NotDead Posted January 2, 2009 Members Share Posted January 2, 2009 awesome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Northstar Posted January 2, 2009 Members Share Posted January 2, 2009 I've got one of these Dearmond pickups... I just need a suitable guitar to put it in... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members OldGuitarPlayer Posted January 2, 2009 Members Share Posted January 2, 2009 Big Joe was the man who wrote and recorded the original "Baby Please Don't Go" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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