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23 Jul 17 - 07:02 PM (#3867911) Subject: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: GUEST,Great Big Voice I think of Pete Seeger and his long-neck banjo and down-tuned 12-string guitar. Many others, like Dylan and Guthrie, are often represented in iconic images with certain instruments (the 'Fascists' guitar, of which I know there were several), but never stuck with one style, let alone one particular tool. Are there others in the folk world that are identified with a particular make/model of instrument, or, like Seeger, identified with specific individual instruments throughout their careers? |
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23 Jul 17 - 07:20 PM (#3867913) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: Jack Campin Cathal McConnell carries around a briefcaseful of battered and fungoid flutes and whistles, but most of his fluteplaying is on one instrument, a right-handed 8-key wooden flute which he plays lefthanded with most of the keys disabled by insulating tape and rubber bands. Hardly anybody else can get a sound out of it. There is a story that he was once due to play it in an outdoor gig in a hot country so it needed oiling, and there wasn't any bore oil around, so he used the oil from a tin of sardines. If it ever came into my possession I'd handle it with tongs and give it to a museum. I think Peerie Willie Johnson had the same guitar for most of his life, which he carried around Lerwick in a bin bag. At any moment there will be several "Rolf Harris" Stylophones for sale on EBay. But for some reason I've never seen a wobble board for sale - they were a more imaginative invention. |
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23 Jul 17 - 07:32 PM (#3867916) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: Joe Offer If I could expand just a bit beyond the Folk World, B.B. King named his guitar "Lucille" - there were several guitars that held that name. Les Paul is another performer whose guitar was well known - but a "Les Paul guitar" can be on of a number of varieties. Here's Pete Seeger's Banjo (click) And Woody Guthrie's guitar (click) -Joe- |
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23 Jul 17 - 07:49 PM (#3867918) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: gillymor Tony Rice and his 1935 Martin D-28 guitar that previously belonged to Clarence White, one of Tony's main inspirations. Story at Fretboard Journal It ranks up there with Bill Monroe's Gibson F-5 Lloyd Loar mandolin as one of the most famous instruments in Bluegrass history. Norman Blake played a 1934 Martin D-18 12 fret for a long time that was stupendous. I think he's playing smaller instruments these days. |
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23 Jul 17 - 09:27 PM (#3867925) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: Hagman B.B. King and "Lucille" come to mind.... |
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24 Jul 17 - 01:43 AM (#3867938) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: The Sandman Pavarotti and his voice |
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24 Jul 17 - 02:07 AM (#3867940) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: Dave Hanson Maybelle Carters Gibson guitar ? Dave H |
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24 Jul 17 - 02:56 AM (#3867942) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: Hagman Paul McCartney's Rickenbacker Bass Jim (Roger) McGuinn's Rickenbacker 12-string Lonnie Mack (and Albert King) - Gibson Flying V Robert Johnson's acoustic was pretty special - a Gibson, I believe. |
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24 Jul 17 - 03:38 AM (#3867943) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: The Sandman Martin Carthy and his Martin |
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24 Jul 17 - 04:10 AM (#3867949) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: GUEST,Ray Brian May and his home-made red guitar. Reginald Dixon and the Blackpool organ. Liberace and his candelabrum. |
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24 Jul 17 - 04:17 AM (#3867951) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: Roger the Skiffler Willie Nelson and that "holy" guitar. I like to think I've given a new dimension to the kazoo but others might differ! RtS |
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24 Jul 17 - 05:38 AM (#3867959) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: GUEST,Mark Bluemel Richard Thompson seems to have an ongoing search for his signature electric guitar, but plays his Lowden almost exclusively for acoustic. |
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24 Jul 17 - 07:23 AM (#3867977) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: GUEST,Phil d'Conch Louis Armstrong's Selmer. It's in the Smithsonian now. Bo Diddley's Gretsch. Jamaican William Walker (Sugarbelly) and his homemade bamboo sax. |
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24 Jul 17 - 07:50 AM (#3867984) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: gillymor The late, great J.J. Cale and his Fifty Dollar Guitar |
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24 Jul 17 - 09:16 AM (#3867996) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: GUEST,Tunesmith McCartney's bass was a Hofner. |
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24 Jul 17 - 11:33 AM (#3868021) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: GUEST,Mark Bluemel Tunesmith is correct. Paul McCartney has played other basses, including Rickenbackers, but the signature one is the Hofner. I'm told that unlike the other band members who bought instruments on credit, Paul (always careful with money) chose the Hofner because it was cheap enough to buy outright... This link tells a slightly different, but not incompatible story. |
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24 Jul 17 - 12:46 PM (#3868032) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: punkfolkrocker Billy Bragg - Burns Steer [before he became grey haired beardy old BBC4 folk spokesperson...] |
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24 Jul 17 - 02:00 PM (#3868054) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: Tattie Bogle What about people like Pete Coe, who play a multitude of different instruments? Which one do you really go to hear? Me, being a box player, just love his Hohner melodeon, and his song, somewhat decrying more expensive brands! (His Appalachian dulcimer also does it for me!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC3Dn5ParEE |
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24 Jul 17 - 05:06 PM (#3868098) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: GUEST Andy Irvine-Sobell guitar-bouzouki |
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24 Jul 17 - 06:31 PM (#3868106) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: GUEST Utah Phillips' Guild F50 |
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24 Jul 17 - 07:28 PM (#3868116) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: gillymor Ry Cooder and the "Coodercaster" |
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24 Jul 17 - 07:56 PM (#3868120) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: Hagman I stand corrected on McCartney's bass! Thanks Tunesmith and Mark for setting the record straight... |
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24 Jul 17 - 08:55 PM (#3868132) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: Stilly River Sage Mudcat's beloved member Art Thieme - his banjo was embossed This Machine Kills Time. |
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24 Jul 17 - 09:04 PM (#3868135) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: GUEST,Phil d'Conch If voice is in play then Edda Dell'Orso & Clare Torry. |
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24 Jul 17 - 09:12 PM (#3868136) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: Dan Schatz Our own KYTrad - Jean Ritchie's dulcimer. Dan |
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24 Jul 17 - 09:41 PM (#3868138) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: Dan Schatz Gordon Bok's Apollonio 12-strings. Dan |
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25 Jul 17 - 07:27 AM (#3868193) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: gillymor Doc Watson and his Gallagher Dreadnought "Old Hoss". |
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25 Jul 17 - 09:52 AM (#3868208) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: Jack Campin Our own KYTrad - Jean Ritchie's dulcimer. Didn't she have lots of them? |
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25 Jul 17 - 09:55 AM (#3868210) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: Thompson The flabbergasting Luc Arbogast and his signature mandolin… |
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25 Jul 17 - 11:12 AM (#3868227) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: GUEST,Gozz without his cookie That Mandolin is a long necked Octave Mandolin or Irish Bouzouki. |
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25 Jul 17 - 12:42 PM (#3868242) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: GUEST,It'smagic Roy Williamson of The Corries invented - and introduced to the public in 1969 - two instruments called combolins. The one Roy played combined a guitar with a Spanish bandurria. The instrument had sitar-like sympathetic strings that resonated. The instrument played by Corries partner Ronnie Browne combined a mandolin with a guitar. |
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25 Jul 17 - 01:44 PM (#3868250) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: Dan Schatz Jack - Jean owned many dulcimers (many of them are in museums now), but there was one in particular she played primarily, now in the capable hands of her son Jon Pickow. At her memorial concert there were a great any people who made a special point of coming up during intermission to look at it. Dan |
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25 Jul 17 - 02:28 PM (#3868256) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: GUEST,Phil d'Conch re: KYTrad - dulcimer - gotta work Homer Ledford into the conversation there. |
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25 Jul 17 - 04:08 PM (#3868268) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: JedMarum Stan Rogers and his beautiful Laskin 12 string |
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25 Jul 17 - 05:04 PM (#3868277) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: fat B****rd Buddy Holly and his Fender Eddie Cochran and his Gretsch |
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25 Jul 17 - 05:18 PM (#3868281) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: punkfolkrocker Wilko Johnson - Telecaster |
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25 Jul 17 - 09:02 PM (#3868316) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: Hagman Hendrix and the upside-down Strat. All pix of Hank B. Martin in the Shads days had him with a black Strat, was it? |
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25 Jul 17 - 10:19 PM (#3868321) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: GUEST,Great Big Voice @Hagman: Marvin's Stratocaster was Fiesta Red, a rare color even in the U.S. at the time, and the only one of its kind in the U.K. There's a sense in which Hank Marvin's Stratocaster was as much a celebrity as he was- the shiny new American guitar, looking like it was from outer space, and then that color! |
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26 Jul 17 - 06:01 AM (#3868352) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: banjoman Winifred Atwell and her "Other" Piano |
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26 Jul 17 - 11:14 AM (#3868398) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: punkfolkrocker Unmentionable - stylophone, didgeridoo & wobble board |
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26 Jul 17 - 11:37 AM (#3868402) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: Jack Campin I already mentioned two of them! |
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26 Jul 17 - 11:56 AM (#3868408) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: punkfolkrocker ah yes.. you did.. that just goes to show the almighty powerful cultural pressures to block his name from our minds... 😱 😜 |
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26 Jul 17 - 01:17 PM (#3868420) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: Tattie Bogle I remember going to see a concert with Kevin Burke (virtuoso Irish fiddler) and Tim Edey (guitarist and buttonbox player - equally virtuoso at both). Good concert, but disappointed not to hear Tim play any of his boxes at all - missed opportunity, I thought. So which would you consider was Tim's "signature instrument"? (Not talking about which make at present.) The concert promoter told me "Tim was just there to accompany Kevin on guitar" - hmmm! |
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26 Jul 17 - 04:47 PM (#3868446) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: Rusty Dobro Roy Buchanan's Telecaster, 'Nancy' John Goodluck's Martin - 'it's older than my girlfriend'! David Rawlings' Epiphone Emperor. |
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27 Jul 17 - 12:10 AM (#3868491) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: Hagman @Great Big Voice re Hank B. Marvin's Strat The pictures I remember would have been b & w :-) Never had the chance to see him live with Cliff down here in Oz - missed all the tours. |
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08 Jul 18 - 03:12 PM (#3936098) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: GUEST,keberoxu Talking of Mudcat Forum member Brian May and his "Red Special", this year's TRNSMT Festival in Glasgow included "Queen + Adam Lambert." Here is a description of the special welcoming gesture: "An extremely unique stage will be in place for Queen + Adam Lambert 's performance tonight, with the stage based on Brian May's custom-made guitar (designed and made with his father in the 1960s). "Immense and impressive, the size of the guitar-shaped stage is 21m wide and 34m long. The catwalk 'neck' is 21m in length, this long catwalk enables to be surrounded by more audience than ever before! This is a show not to be missed." -- The Glasgowist, "Talk of the Town," written by Paul Trainer, 6th July 2018 |
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08 Jul 18 - 03:33 PM (#3936105) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: Jack Campin I just remembered - I have a G sopranino recorder once owned by Michael Copley of the Cambridge (later Classic) Buskers. I saw him on TV playing it about 20 years before I bought it - as part of the act he fingered a left-hand-only note, closed one nostril with his right hand and blew it through the other. |
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08 Jul 18 - 04:47 PM (#3936126) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: GUEST,KarenH The spoon lady and … guess what? https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=40&v=B6rCoyuoddU |
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09 Jul 18 - 07:03 PM (#3936353) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: KarenH Hate to 'clog' up the thread, but … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtESUuA2gTc&list=RD3xfHY8q3tpA&index=3 |
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10 Jul 18 - 05:10 AM (#3936399) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: Big Al Whittle Django's Macaferri Bix's cornet Frankie "Tram" Trumbauer's C saxophone Rolf Harris's stylophone and wobbleboard |
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10 Jul 18 - 06:34 AM (#3936406) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: GUEST Dick Miles and (just) his concertina |
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11 Jul 18 - 06:06 AM (#3936631) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: KarenH Kathryn Tickell: Northumbrian small pipes. http://www.kathryntickell.com/home She also has a Soundcloud set. |
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11 Jul 18 - 06:23 AM (#3936639) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: GUEST,Trojan Horse Jim Couza and the Hammered Dulcimer. Dave Swarbrick and his Violin |
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11 Jul 18 - 06:24 AM (#3936640) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: Jack Campin What's special about Kathryn's set? |
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11 Jul 18 - 06:32 AM (#3936642) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: KarenH Sorry Jack. I thread-drifted. Just trying to provide examples. |
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11 Jul 18 - 08:44 AM (#3936674) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: GUEST,Mark Bluemel "Jim Couza and the Hammered Dulcimer." Didn't he build some of his dulcimers himself, which would be sort of on-topic? I remember seeing him play one built from a stainless steel sink and drainer - he threatened to play Handel's "Water Music" but instead played something Caribean, I think, with the dulcimer taking on a resemblance to steel pan drums. |
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11 Jul 18 - 09:12 AM (#3936677) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: gillymor David Grisman and his F-5 Lloyd Loar Gibson mandolin "Crusher". Not too long ago he did an album on his Acoustic Disc label in which he invited a number of great mandolinists to record a track dueting with guitarists playing his early '30's OM-45 Martin. Some really good stuff. |
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11 Jul 18 - 09:21 AM (#3936684) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: gillymor I failed to make clear that all the mandolinists played the aforementioned "Crusher" on the LP which, btw, is called "Tone Poets" and features a wide variety of musical styles. |
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11 Jul 18 - 11:53 AM (#3936721) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: Mark Ross I think that Roy Book Binder now has a signature Recording Tone New Era guitar; http://www.arkneweraguitars.com/82.html And so does Dakota Dave Hull; http://www.arkneweraguitars.com/82.html |
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11 Jul 18 - 03:11 PM (#3936754) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: Big Al Whittle Sooty and his xylophone |
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11 Jul 18 - 03:18 PM (#3936755) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: Dave Hanson Earl Scruggs Gibson Granada 5 string. Dave H |
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11 Jul 18 - 04:41 PM (#3936763) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: fat B****rd Chuck Berry and his tax-deductible Gibsons. |
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11 Jul 18 - 04:43 PM (#3936765) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: wysiwyg Our own Seamus Kennedy would plead modesty and accuse me of gushing that I'm including him in such hifalootin' company-- but his guitar: https://irishfest.com/Entertainment/Artists/Seamus-Kennedy.htm •S• |
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12 Jul 18 - 02:06 PM (#3936939) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: The Sandman jessie fuller Fotdella |
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15 Jul 18 - 09:23 AM (#3937473) Subject: RE: Artists And Their Signature Instruments From: Donuel Paul Galbraith 8 string vertical guitar and 5 ft. sound box https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykShe9vJWcQ&list=RDykShe9vJWcQ&t=95 |
