Post by tonydone on Aug 14, 2014 0:57:45 GMT
Hi folks this is my first post and an introduction.
I've been playing guitar for 50-odd years, and slide the past 30-odd. I currently have four resos, a Beltona brass tricone with radical cutawy (seen in my avatar), a 1932 Style O, a 2000-ish Estalita Deluxe and a Republic Miniolian that has been converted to nylon strings for fingerpicking. I also play slide on electrics and a couple of flattops - a cedar topped Maton 225 and a Bourgeois Martin Simpson Sig. My sig includes a couple of links that indicate my musical interests.
Here's the question/comment. I use 13-56 electric strings on my steel strung resos, because I like magnetic pickups, and generally tune to open D/G. This is fine on the tricone and style O, but the 6th string sounds weak and flabby on the Estralita, and the other strings just about ordinary. If I tune up to open E/A in on the Estralita it sounds terrific. I haven't investigated whether it is string tension or resonance frequencies that do this, but I wonder if anyone else has noticed the same thing - that a smallish change in pitch has major effect on tonal quality, in any guitar, and the Estralita or wood-bodied resos in particular?
Another Estralita question. Do all five fretboard extension dots have screws under them? I'm thinking about making the neck angle a bit steeper so I can get the action lower.
EDIT - I also have a kona lapsteel, a Gibson prototype.
I've been playing guitar for 50-odd years, and slide the past 30-odd. I currently have four resos, a Beltona brass tricone with radical cutawy (seen in my avatar), a 1932 Style O, a 2000-ish Estalita Deluxe and a Republic Miniolian that has been converted to nylon strings for fingerpicking. I also play slide on electrics and a couple of flattops - a cedar topped Maton 225 and a Bourgeois Martin Simpson Sig. My sig includes a couple of links that indicate my musical interests.
Here's the question/comment. I use 13-56 electric strings on my steel strung resos, because I like magnetic pickups, and generally tune to open D/G. This is fine on the tricone and style O, but the 6th string sounds weak and flabby on the Estralita, and the other strings just about ordinary. If I tune up to open E/A in on the Estralita it sounds terrific. I haven't investigated whether it is string tension or resonance frequencies that do this, but I wonder if anyone else has noticed the same thing - that a smallish change in pitch has major effect on tonal quality, in any guitar, and the Estralita or wood-bodied resos in particular?
Another Estralita question. Do all five fretboard extension dots have screws under them? I'm thinking about making the neck angle a bit steeper so I can get the action lower.
EDIT - I also have a kona lapsteel, a Gibson prototype.
you ask a interesting question in my opnion it is stringtension that drives the cone on resonators so in short yes the change in pitch does do that