Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train

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Description: Elizabeth Cotten on Rainbow Quest with Pete Seeger (No. 3)
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bigdjindustriez ::: Favorites you too man. have a good one. 07-09-01 14:35:17 __________________________________________________
Darkeocean ::: Favorites I sincerely thank you for the time and effort that you have spent on this. I find your info enlightening and informative. Martin charge the same for their L/h R/h configured guitars as I am sure you know. I wish you long and prosperous life. 07-09-01 05:32:53 __________________________________________________
bigdjindustriez ::: Favorites OK I Figured you'd keep at it, so I wrote a letter to CF Martin Co. otherwise known as the best guitar manufacturer in the world. They told me exactly what I told you, they change the pickguard and turn the bridge around, he also said "We do not alter the bracing or any other part of the body or neck". On a scale of 1 - 10, the level that I care about this is about a negative 200, so yea. Case closed. 07-08-31 12:31:54 __________________________________________________
Darkeocean ::: Favorites I understand that you are referring solely to acoustic guitars. I am suggesting that your original comment is way too glib. Nothing you have added has altered my opinion. You are however welcome to yours. 07-08-31 12:11:48 __________________________________________________
bigdjindustriez ::: Favorites yes I'm well aware of the bass and treble sides of a guitar, but you see..instrument manufacturers don't really give a shit, they just want their money..so they flip the bridge around, put the strings on backwards, sometimes they change the pickguard around, sometimes they don't even bother, and they sell it. Do you really think they care what it sounds like? as long as they get their money. 07-08-30 15:31:42 __________________________________________________
Darkeocean ::: Favorites So anyway, Elizabeth Cotten retained the lovely sound of her instrument by retaining the original string layout. What a sweet lady she was. Jimi Hendrix faced ergonomic issues on the other hand. Try playing a strat upside down to see what I mean. He did change the strings though, reset the intonation and perhaps the nut too. And the strap post, just had to change that too, man 07-08-30 12:39:02 __________________________________________________
Darkeocean ::: Favorites Acoustic guitars are often designed with asymmetric soundboard bracing in order to offset resonance modes inherent in the instrument. Lobbing the thing over and restringing may upset this resonance compensation. Please google 'asymmetric soundboard bracing' 07-08-30 12:29:26 __________________________________________________
Darkeocean ::: Favorites Oh and the flute, well these can come in left handed configurations also. Guitar manufacturers cite having to reconfigure their production line as the reason why their left hand instruments are more expensive. Please avoid petty comments in future. 07-08-30 12:18:40 __________________________________________________
bigdjindustriez ::: Favorites no such thing as a left handed instrument. Just a regular instrument with the strings on backwards (upside down), and the bridge turned around. unless it's a banjo, then yes, the 5th peg has to be put on the opposite side. Only difference on a specially made lefty guitar is the pickguard on the other side 07-08-28 12:31:31 __________________________________________________
Darkeocean ::: Favorites You see it right. Think about it, left handed people way back had a hard time getting an left handed instrument, so you'd learn to play on what was available. 07-08-20 22:16:50 __________________________________________________