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Post by colinbrooks on Feb 21, 2010 18:10:19 GMT
Dozens of guitars have been through my hands over the years but only one has had a name. It was made by someone more aquainted with carpentry than luthiery who used a Harmony Sovereign as a model but thought that large instrument a bit on the small side. This monster is a full 5 inches deep, back and sides of constructional ply, top nearly a quarter inch of pine. It weighs a ton but works surprisingly well lap style.
And the name that it was given by the friend who passed it on to me, 'Desparate Dan's Guitar'.
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Post by sunandmoon on Mar 2, 2010 9:47:45 GMT
Hi Interesting thread!!!!!
my main instrument is called liza i say it cause im dutch lieza ......no real reason for the name i was thinking of my other instrument cause i love my fair lady i should call it doolittle cause i dont play it much
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2010 21:27:50 GMT
Hi SunandMoon Doolittle Great name. I've got a guitar or two that could definitely be. called that. I've got a lovely Epiphone 56 Gold Top Les Paul, that somehow spends most of its time in the case. N'owt wrong with her we just don't see eye to eye that often
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Post by washboardchris on Mar 3, 2010 7:52:57 GMT
Hi, maybe theres something missing in me but I just dont get it.I have guitars that I am very fond of and love playing but have never named any of them(or cars for that matter)for that matter I have never met a joiner or cabinet maker who has named his tools.I have often wodered why people name objects.This is something I have often wondered about & hope someone can explain it to me.
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Post by maxxengland on Mar 3, 2010 9:19:13 GMT
It probably goes back thousands of years, ships, as I said before, have had names. Hereward the Wake had his Brainbiter sword. We give animals names (dogs probably have an identity of their own that equates to "smells like this"). Since the phenomenon of naming is so widespread across humanity, I suggest the practice predates the spread of the East African Upright Ape into Asia and beyond. 50,000 years, at least, say.
Any anthropology bods out there to throw any light on this?
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Post by washboardchris on Mar 3, 2010 9:28:09 GMT
Hi, it maybe with me that when I am well off I have lots of guitars & when I'm skint I sell them.if I was to name them it would be a bit like naming a lamb you were going to eat (dont get on first name terms with your food) :-)
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Post by growler on Mar 3, 2010 10:01:07 GMT
I have never put names to anything , I guess I might be in agreement with washboardchris on this one ...... mind you my Wife has put names to them , when she first heard my resonator and realised how loud it was she named it ' Divorce' My latest acquisition to the guitar family the ' Weissenborn ' she has not named , simply saying " at least it is made of wood " ............. maybe she thinks it might have another use on cold winter nights
Regards
Growler
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Post by gouranga on Mar 3, 2010 11:41:30 GMT
Name is a positive form of giving identity to something. Or in other words, something you identify with. Names make things more personal. It is often a showing of affection to give a name to something, just as a father or mother often gives a pet name to a son or daughter. Just like in my own case. Every time my father seen me, he would say. O jesus christ you again. When we name something out of affection, then we also have the tendency to look after that which we have named with more personal care. On another side. Our instruments are the fruit of our hardearned labour in life and also an outlet for expressions and emotions we may feel, which are in themselves very personal. Name giving is a way of being personal and more interactive with that which we name, and may also help bring out some very deep and personal things within us. Of course others may differ and give what I have written a name. 'crap', but then, that is also personal and individual.
Take care and all the best from the guy named Gouranga....
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Post by washboardchris on Mar 3, 2010 12:29:35 GMT
I suppose you have a point(I am sure that Eric the ironingboard & Walter the Fridge would agree with you) my stepdaughter insisted on calling my guitars expensive firewood which is one reason I started playing metal ones :-)
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Post by gouranga on Mar 3, 2010 19:33:45 GMT
Eric the ironingboard / walter the Fridge or Chris the Washboard. What's in a name??? Gouranga..
Take care
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Post by washboardchris on Mar 3, 2010 19:54:41 GMT
The point I am trying to make is that a guitar an iroingboard or a fridge are just things.If the house was on fire I would try to save my wife & the dog & even the budgie first(they are alive) guitars would come lower on the list.
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Post by gouranga on Mar 3, 2010 20:44:04 GMT
Point taken but was not made very clearly old boy. Take care and hope the house don't go on fire.
Gouranga
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Post by wolvoboy on Mar 4, 2010 7:35:32 GMT
most guitars have names on them already ie:company name,i tend to use a abbreviation of that,my National i call (Nat) my harmony parlour i call (Harmo) my stella parlour i called (stella)now burned in the house fire i had a couple of years ago now i call her the (hot bitch) as she was the main cause of the fire(long story) my tricone which was in the same room as the fire never got touched and was saved,i call her (Reso -rector) mouth organscollectivly i call (Gob irons).. My mate calls all his guitars (slapping machines)name got from when he was arguing with his wife,when she said you treat those bunch of slappers better than me. washboadchris is right though, when you have a fire your guitars are lower on the list than family and pets,but whe you go back into the house after the fire is out panick sets in , the guitars are the first thing you think about. wolvoboy
,my Mandola,( mandy the mando)
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Post by rickS on Mar 4, 2010 20:58:14 GMT
I'm not usually given to naming them, but my old tricone came with a bunch of early '30s hawaiian/religious/folksy lapsteel sheet-music in the (original) case, most of which were marked with ( I assume) the owner's name, Ellsworth Lloyd, so Ellsworth it has become - only wish I knew the story behind the name..
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Post by thebluesbear( al) on Mar 12, 2010 11:56:43 GMT
Hi when i thought about this thread i was thinking a lot of Kent duchaine , Kent often talks of of the times he traveled with Johnny shines and how Johnny shines traveled with RJ
I often wondered what it would have been like for them during those years Scott Ainslie talks of a Sundown curfew on the roads so here is my take on the matter
the one thing that would have cost you money and keeps you alive is your guitar .... so on that basis i was wondering id duchaine and leadbessie is or was part of some tradition
Al
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