BS: If God made a guitar it would be

Subject: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: olddude
Date: 13 Jul 09 - 09:30 PM

A 1969 D-28 Martin cause any other guitar ...
well it is not a D-28 Martin

I can see the cat claws coming out on this one .. LOL

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: number 6
Date: 13 Jul 09 - 09:42 PM

an Esteban

well, he thinks he is God.

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Jul 09 - 09:51 PM

a trumpet. Probably one of the classic Conns.

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: number 6
Date: 13 Jul 09 - 09:58 PM

Do they have a Herb Albert signature model?

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: pdq
Date: 13 Jul 09 - 10:03 PM

If you become proficient at playing a Conn trumpet, are you considered a Conn artist?

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: olddude
Date: 13 Jul 09 - 10:06 PM

No that puts you in real estate make you a Donald Trumpet

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: SharonA
Date: 13 Jul 09 - 11:43 PM

If God made a guitar, it would be infintely large.

But it would have a still, small voice.

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Jul 09 - 11:50 PM

Any guitar at all...it takes all kinds to encompass the archetype.

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: Peace
Date: 13 Jul 09 - 11:52 PM

A 1964 Martin D-28.

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 02:33 AM

Not a 1968 Kent from the local Woolworth's? ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: Peace
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 03:05 AM

My
gawd.

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 03:37 AM

A Banjo!
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: Peace
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 03:54 AM

LOL

Good
one.
In
two
words
you
have
evened
the
score
for
banjo
players
everywhere.

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: TheSnail
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 06:32 AM

In tune.

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: theleveller
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 07:51 AM

I don't believe in god, but George Lowden must come pretty close if my guitar is anything to go by.

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: Tug the Cox
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 07:55 AM

Incapable of being electrified.

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: number 6
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 08:54 AM

4 subjects I never discuss anymore.

1. religion
2. politics
3. what is the best guitar
4. folk music (specifically with anyone over the age of 50)

biLL :)

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 09:00 AM

Well, if God MUST make a guitar it would be:

1. Steel
2. With barbed wire strings
3. Capable of being ALMOST tuned correctly
4. Usable by capons
5. With a pick of depleted uranium
6. And the frets just barely off key.

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: Stringsinger
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 09:24 AM

If a god made it it would probably be a terrible design if you believed in such things.

I would prefer to have it made by a good guitar maker.

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: Wesley S
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 09:30 AM

A 67 Martin D-18 would be pretty close.

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: Stu
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 09:59 AM

. . . nearly as good as a Sobell.

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: Midchuck
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 10:20 AM

Think of the number of things that would be different about your own body if you had been able to design it yourself. Then ask whether you would want a guitar that was designed by God, rather than by a competent luthier.

P.

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: Amos
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 10:37 AM

Where does anyone get the idea that God has pentedigital hands, opposable thumbs, padded palms, and elbows?

If He is the Infinite wind of creation behind all apparent universes, surely his guitar would be as wide as a nebulous cluster, and strung with ethereal 13-dimensional strings, from which a burst of Intelligence would draw such a chord as to change the courses of the galaxies and swing the stars into rhythm. Such a guitar would span time and light years, and be of no substance, but would be entirely a thrum of coruscating, sweet harmony informing all the pores of existence itself. The scales of such a guitar would melt and reform the very hearts of life wherever found.

Which is approximately what my 1969 D-35 does.

A

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: olddude
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 11:13 AM

Midchuck,
Naw ... You see with the human body, God got busy and contracted out some of the part work to China.. On a guitar he would probably use Martin :-)

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: Bill D
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 11:14 AM

♫"Can I take my Martin with me into Heaven when I go?"♫

Nice, Amos...

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: olddude
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 11:39 AM

I think Amos wins on this one ... that was awesome

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: kendall
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 12:16 PM

Martin, snort.

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 12:41 PM

C. G. Conns RULE!

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 12:46 PM

Kendall! Behave!! :-) :-)

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 01:00 PM

Martin Gibson.

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 01:03 PM

An English cittern - plucked with a feather-plectrum!

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: The Sandman
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 01:11 PM

first of all there is no proof God is male,secondly why would god make a guitar,if he /she did it would be one that never need its strings changed,and was always in tune,in other words a concertina.

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: SharonA
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 01:13 PM

I must disagree with olddude. I like TheSnail's answer best so far. God's guitar would never -- could never -- be out of tune. Not even when bending a note.

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 01:20 PM

They have guitars in Heaven, and a heavenly guitar changes magically into the perfect guitar for whichever soul picked it up to play it.

Have you even sung the song "Preacher Went Down?" Here's a verse of interest:

Oh the heavenly choir
sings night and noon.
And the heavenly twelve-string
stays in tune.
      aside - That WOULD be heaven!

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: olddude
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 01:25 PM

With God's guitar everyone sounds like Fretkillr on youtube

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: PoppaGator
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 01:40 PM

So many of the above "votes" have been for guitars almost the same as mine, which is the true heavenly archtype: a 1969 D-18!

God knows that mahogany is every bit as good as rosewood, and He made it less expensive ~ just as one of His private jokes...

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 01:47 PM

I like the sound of rosewood guitars better for some reason. Mahogany sounds nice too, but I still like rosewood better. It seems to have a bit more clarity or "bite" or something like that. Mahogany sounds just a little too soft to me.

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: Wesley S
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 01:50 PM

I keep trying to like Koa guitars. It's the prettiest of the tonewoods to my eye but I still haven't played one that had the sound I couldn't live without.

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: Wesley S
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 01:57 PM

"If God made a guitar it would be".....

Played by Mississippi John Hurt, Doc Watson, Chet Atkins, Tony Rice and Django.....

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: pdq
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 02:01 PM

...and Clarence White would be a helping Him with the design.

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: Ebbie
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 02:56 PM

I think my 1971 D35 may have been made by God. It has a celestial sound, for sure.

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 03:02 PM

Had a guitar once with a plastic soundbox. You turned a crank and it played "Pop goes the weasel." Never had a better one!

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: Amos
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 03:20 PM

...which explains your feelings about guitars. THey have not matured since you were 7!


A

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: PoppaGator
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 03:21 PM

"Mahogany sounds nice too, but I still like rosewood better. It seems to have a bit more clarity or "bite" or something like that. Mahogany sounds just a little too soft to me."

For many years, I didn't even know that my D-18 was made with a different tonewood than the more expensive Martin dreadnaughts. I thought the price differential was due to the absense of ornamental trim. I only began to learn about the mahogany-vs-reosewood issue from a long series of Mudcat threads.

The general consensus of opinions that I read seemed to point toward an idea that rosewood guitars emphasize the chordal sound of multiple strings played together, while mahogany highlights the separate notes of individual strings. I'm not sure if this is consistent with Little Hawks' characterization of rosewood "biting" clarity versus mahogany's "soft" quality, or if the two opinions are in direct opposition to each other ~ ???

Try as I might, I still haven't formed a sure opnion of my own on the subject. I do know know that I (as a fingerpicker) very much like the sound of my mahogany guitar, and am generally better able to get the sound I want out of my own D-18 than even the most elaborate and expensive borrowed -28 or -35. But that probably has as much to do with my familiarity with the quirks of my own instrument (versus my comparative cluelessness about how to play a strange guitar) than with the intrinsic qualities of the materials from which the instruments are constructed.

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: Amos
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 03:30 PM

I have a similar partiality to my rosewood -35, POppa, but it may be for the same reasons. I play a combined finger-picking and strumming style which the guitar seems to support beautifully. Should I come in to a great fortune one day, I would get a family of Taylors and Martins (the Taylors out of respect for Kendall) and try them against each other to see what proves out.


A

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 03:44 PM

Yes, I think mahogany back and sides sound very good for fingerpicking while rosewood sounds better for full chords. They're both quite good in any case.

I've been looking at some large Talor guitars, "Grand Orchestra" body type, and they sound really good. The back and sides on those are "ovonghola" or something like that, can't quite remember the name of the wood.

My favorite guitar that I've owned is a Martin D-28H with rosewood back and sides.

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: GUEST,lox
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 03:46 PM

any 1950'5 Gibson es 335 ...

... mmmmmm ... sweet!

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 04:07 PM

If God were to make a guitar, it would first appear in the music store as a soprano ukulele. All the other guitars would rush to the music store and coo over it saying things like, "Aw! Look at the cute little purfling!" (Later, on the way home, they would say things like, "Did you get a look at the tuning machines on that poor little thing? Look like they belong on a Fender Precision bass!") If the little uke came with a an end-pin, the older guitars would argue about whether to leave it be, or whack a guarter-inch off of it. (Of course, if it was destined to play Klezmer music, there'd be no argument. Whack!) Then, after the little uke went to its new home, it would make God-awful noises at 2:00 AM and its owner would have to play lullabies on it for an hour, trying to get it to shut up.

As the little uke matured, it would go through the various phases of ukehood, maturing into a tenor uke, and then a baritone uke, before finally becoming a 1963 00-18 Martin on its thirteenth birthday. Almost immediately thereafter, the surface of the little guitar would erupt into a mess of warty nodes which would persist for five or six years. Some guitars would make it through this stage with no lasting scars, while others would wind up looking like they'd been played by drunks using church keys for picks. At about the same time, the little 00 would announce that he wishes he'd been born a Fender Stratocaster. He will sulk and attempt to sound like he's being played by Pete Townshend any time you pick him up.

Eventually, the guitar will mature into a fully fledged D-28 and settle into a life of predictable, steady playability. Then, one day, the braces closest to the sound-hole will begin to swell unaccountably, causing the sound-hole close up and take on the appearance of a raspberry. The tuning machines will develop stripped gears and have to be replaced with artificial ones. Worst of all, the end-pin will become limp and flaccid and no amount of coaxing will make it go through a strap-hole.

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: Wesley S
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 04:53 PM

Little Hawk - The material is called Ovankol if I'm not mistaken. It's an african wood and is supposed to sound like a cross between mahogany and rosewood. I used to have a stunning Lowden 12 string made from Ovankol.It's worth checking out.

Subject: RE: BS: If God made a guitar it would be
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 05:20 PM

Yeah, that's it. Nice looking wood too. Here's the guitar in question:

Taylor GA-4