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Post by archtopeddy on Apr 10, 2024 23:37:38 GMT
Hi everyone. Just curious... How well would an MM Fiddle Edge work for Hawaiian music? Has anyone used one that way -- lap style, steel or finger-picking?
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Post by marshcat on Apr 11, 2024 8:21:18 GMT
Not an MM, but my 1930s fiddle-edge square-neck Serenader sounds fine for Hawaiian; the spider cone just gives a slightly more country-ish tone than a tricone. Will post a tune when I get time.
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Post by Michael Messer on Apr 11, 2024 9:12:12 GMT
Hi Eddy
I have had an MM Fiddle Edge setup for Hawaiian style playing and it sounds really good. They are sweet and warm instruments and sound lovely played as lap steel guitars. The sustain and harmonics are really nice on them.
No disrespect to Marshcat, but my belief is that it is not the guitar that makes the music sound Hawaiian, country, bluesy, Indian, Chinese, or any other style. It is the player that makes it sound a certain way. I have played lots of country and blues on tricones and lots of Hawaiian on Dobros. I always sound like me whatever guitar I'm playing, we all do.
I am not writing this as the owner of MM Guitars looking for a sale, I am speaking as musician to musician about a guitar that I have at home. I do not operate in that way and have no need to push sales of MM guitars.
Shine On
Michael
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Post by snakehips on Apr 11, 2024 12:46:34 GMT
Hi there !
I agree with MM. Any guitar can be used for any music (although, Hawaiian music might be quite difficult to play on an Ibanez pointy headstock type guitar with ultra low action, set of 8's strings, and their girlfriend's hair bungee across the strings, near the nut, and with a Floyd Rose wammy bar !!!).
I think Archtopeddy is actually hoping people will say it's no good for Hawaiian music, as he is desperately looking for excuses NOT to buy a MM Fiddle-Edge Dobro, ha ha ha !!! (I know that feeling !)
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Post by archtopeddy on Apr 11, 2024 14:55:54 GMT
Hi there ! I agree with MM. Any guitar can be used for any music (although, Hawaiian music might be quite difficult to play on an Ibanez pointy headstock type guitar with ultra low action, set of 8's strings, and their girlfriend's hair bungee across the strings, near the nut, and with a Floyd Rose wammy bar !!!). I think Archtopeddy is actually hoping people will say it's no good for Hawaiian music, as he is desperately looking for excuses NOT to buy a MM Fiddle-Edge Dobro, ha ha ha !!! (I know that feeling !)Haha! Good call snakehips. As the saying goes -- I resemble that remark! |
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