wegen pick ?

[toddinjax]

I've read a few comments comaring wegen picks to dunlop big stubbies. I found the stubbies a bit noisy (clicking when they touch the string) as they are made of such a hard material (lexan). What is the wegen made of and does it have a noisy attack when it makes contact? Same ? for anyone familiar with toris picks. thanks

[Shredkratcher]

I'm not sure what material the Wegen's use. I have a couple different Wegen's - the gypsy jazz and the bluegrass picks. The bluegrass picks have a bright sound to them. I don't use them much because I like a slightly darker sound. I don't think you'll get any clicking with them though. I've never noticed it myself with the Wegens.

 

I really like the gypsy jazz picks. Really nice full rich sound to them when played on an archtop or selmer style guitar. I don't use it much on a regular flattop guitar unless I'm playing jazz only. They are very thick picks. Open string strumming could probably be a bit noisy with the attack. Hope that helps a little...

[min7b5]

They are both buttery in tone and feel. They're more flexable then I prefer, so if for example you like a 1.5mm pick I'd get a 1.75. If I'm not using real T-shell I use a Wegen:)

[Terry Allan Hall]

I was given a Wegen recently..it may be a slight improvement over the Big Stubby (purple, whatever size that is) that I use for Gypsy jazz, but it's nothing phenomenal...

 

Not sure what it's made of...guessing some sort of dental resin, but I really don't know.

[DonK]

I have a couple dozen Wegen's, all the way to the 7.5mm jazz pick - thats thick. The thicker Wegen's, anything from 3mm up are just as noisy on an acoustic as a 3mm Big Stubby - you get that same whistling sound. They're much louder than a Stubby and sound very rich and full, but the whistle is as bad or worse.

[EvilTwin]

 

Originally posted by DonK I have a couple dozen Wegen's, all the way to the 7.5mm jazz pick - thats thick. The thicker Wegen's, anything from 3mm up are just as noisy on an acoustic as a 3mm Big Stubby - you get that same whistling sound. They're much louder than a Stubby and sound very rich and full, but the whistle is as bad or worse.

 

 

What he said.

 

I've never quite understood the fascination with really thick gypsy jazz picks. I love John Jorgenson, but on his "Franco-American Swing" album, you hear more of the "pick dancing on string" thing than I prefer.

 

I've got a lot of old Django from the Naxos remasters. You don't hear the "pick dancing" as much on those. Probably from the method of recording and the age of the old masters, but also because Reinhardt was famous for just playing whatever was convenient. You can find a lot of Django pictures, but you won't find a ridiculously fat pick in all of them.

 

(Just as you won't find the "bend your wrist to high hell" technique in all of them. I don't know where that got started with gypsy jazzers, but in pretty much all of the Django pics I've seen -- including my avatar -- he's clearly got a pretty straight wrist.)

[Terry Allan Hall]

In Django's biography (and quite a few other places, as well), he's said to have mostly used a celluloid trouser button for a pick...

 

Interesting!

[dzen]

Django used a trouser button? That's cool, very fitting. I've been through the same experimental pick phases as most guitarists. When I read an interview with Dan Crary where he said he really didn't thick pick choice mattered much I quit searching for my perfect pick. I think it's like a golfer's putter, good putters probably only own one. Come to think of it, I guess I did shell out $25 for an agate flatpick awhile back.

[DonK]

 

Originally posted by dzen Django used a trouser button? That's cool, very fitting. I've been through the same experimental pick phases as most guitarists. When I read an interview with Dan Crary where he said he really didn't thick pick choice mattered much I quit searching for my perfect pick. I think it's like a golfer's putter, good putters probably only own one. Come to think of it, I guess I did shell out $25 for an agate flatpick awhile back.

 

 

That's pretty much where I am today. After agonizing over picks for years, feeling like this one gripped better than this one, and that one sounded better than another, and this one let me play more accurately, I just gave it all up. Now I realize that a lot of it was psychological - at least for me - especially the pick grip thing. I probably pick up a Dunlop Jazz III more often than not, but I don't even think about it much anymore. Once I quit worrying about it, I found I could grip almost anything with ease.

[EvilTwin]

Originally posted by Terry Allan Hall In Django's biography (and quite a few other places, as well), he's said to have mostly used a celluloid trouser button for a pick... Interesting!

 

Michael Dregni's recent biography has a really neat part in it about Django doing a series of gigs where he forgot his picks. So he broke off the fattest tooth on a comb and used it instead.

 

Lets see if this works...

 

http://www.amazon.com/Django-Life-Music-Gypsy-Legend/dp/0195304489/sr=1-2/qid=1166769971/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/102-1035050-8960143?ie=UTF8&s=books

 

Very thorough book.

[Terry Allan Hall]

Originally posted by EvilTwin Michael Dregni's recent biography has a really neat part in it about Django doing a series of gigs where he forgot his picks. So he broke off the fattest tooth on a comb and used it instead. Lets see if this works... http://www.amazon.com/Django-Life-Music-Gypsy-Legend/dp/0195304489/sr=1-2/qid=1166769971/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/102-1035050-8960143?ie=UTF8&s=books Very thorough book.

 

Yeah, that's the book I read!