Plus one on Steve's comment, nothing like a free guitar or two in the fold.
Brad
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SFIV1967
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Congratulations Bill! What a happy end!
Ralf
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Thanks for the kind wishes, Ralph...no Cliff, no electronics in her...but I have a new DTAR sitting on the shelf over the workbench
downstairs...wasn't really intended for this one but now I don't know, LOL
Brad, you are another who knows the shock of the good fortune in guitars
...Toby should be doing a clinic again in Vt, see you again
I hope...
downstairs...wasn't really intended for this one but now I don't know, LOL
Brad, you are another who knows the shock of the good fortune in guitars
...Toby should be doing a clinic again in Vt, see you againI hope...
Haven't seen anything on it, but if so, probably be there.....Brad, you are another who knows the shock of the good fortune in guitars
I hope...
Brad
Congratulations Bill!
Markus :smile:
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Bill,
That's one heck of a "door prize"...congrats! It's not a Guild, but I'm hoping you can figure out how to coax a few descent tones out of it if you try hard enough. :friendly_wink::indecisiveness: If you are not able to just swing it buy my house on your way to work and I will be more than happy to try. :laughing:
That's one heck of a "door prize"...congrats! It's not a Guild, but I'm hoping you can figure out how to coax a few descent tones out of it if you try hard enough. :friendly_wink::indecisiveness: If you are not able to just swing it buy my house on your way to work and I will be more than happy to try. :laughing:
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LOL, actually I should...make my own hours pretty much, so getting in an hour late or leaving an hour early isn't an issue...
For those that are interested, finally got to spent some quality time on the front porch with her yesterday. Funny, as much as I used to
be into finding just that exactly elusive electric sound, same never pushed me in the acoustic field...it just had to sound like what my ear
recorded as "good." Rosewood=good, Mahogany=OK, Maple=too bright for me, though they look stunning.
I have learned what is said about red-spruce/adirondack, "it cuts through," as evidenced by my H & D at mandolin camp last year; proudly took my D55 to a BBU Bluegrass Weekend in April and found, while it sounded great solo, just did not cut through like the H & D (at least to me).
Little F47R (remember, red spruce top), loudest guitar in my fingerstyle class at the Kaufman Kamp...maybe not the best sounding, but the
loudest (and not to my advantage!)...size was perfect for the venue, and the deeper body adds some good bass response...though it is still not a dread.
OK cut to the chase...the Colling D2H sounds like every Bluegrass guitar you have ever heard. Big, loud, low end thump, bright highs, no middle (it seems), a real flatpicker... although sadly not so much a fingerpicker. It "barks," you really know it is there. Do not know how two rosewood bodied, Sitka-topped, Red Spruce shaved-brace guitars could sound so different, but they do. The D55 and D2H complement each other in the "accumulation" like a Strat and a Les Paul...each can do what the other doesn't.
Finish is absolute perfection, silking on the spruce top is like some I have only seen on singular Guild pieces. Neck is a slight vee, a little heavier than I would opt for but not as big as the Tacoma-Guild builds. Waverly tuners are smooth as silk under tension...oh, this is what they are supposed to be like! As Sandy notes, $100 better than Gotohs, probably not. Its TKL hard case positions itself somewhere between my H & D's and the newer Guilds...but its top has the same "not quite fitting" quality that requires an extra nudge before you can latch it.
The neck adjustment is a bit hard to get to, and as she has Bill Monroe style action right now, will probably bring her to The Music Emporium in Lexington and spring for a complete set up. Bridge will need to be taken down some and I would just as soon let an authorized dealer do that.
Oh Cliff, figured out the electrics for her...called Shure SM57!
Over all, quite a great piece and proud to have won her. Really appreciate that Bill Collings and his organization support the Steve Kaufman Acoustic Kamp with a donation like this. She will do quite a bit for me as far as learning fiddle tunes, the sound is just right...F47R is now in DADGAD tuning...D55 is clearly the fingerstyle guitar (didn't John Renbourne use one?)...the H & D with GHS Vintage Bronze strings is the blues and rag machine.
Now, I just have to learn to play all this stuff!
For those that are interested, finally got to spent some quality time on the front porch with her yesterday. Funny, as much as I used to
be into finding just that exactly elusive electric sound, same never pushed me in the acoustic field...it just had to sound like what my ear
recorded as "good." Rosewood=good, Mahogany=OK, Maple=too bright for me, though they look stunning.
I have learned what is said about red-spruce/adirondack, "it cuts through," as evidenced by my H & D at mandolin camp last year; proudly took my D55 to a BBU Bluegrass Weekend in April and found, while it sounded great solo, just did not cut through like the H & D (at least to me).
Little F47R (remember, red spruce top), loudest guitar in my fingerstyle class at the Kaufman Kamp...maybe not the best sounding, but the
loudest (and not to my advantage!)...size was perfect for the venue, and the deeper body adds some good bass response...though it is still not a dread.
OK cut to the chase...the Colling D2H sounds like every Bluegrass guitar you have ever heard. Big, loud, low end thump, bright highs, no middle (it seems), a real flatpicker... although sadly not so much a fingerpicker. It "barks," you really know it is there. Do not know how two rosewood bodied, Sitka-topped, Red Spruce shaved-brace guitars could sound so different, but they do. The D55 and D2H complement each other in the "accumulation" like a Strat and a Les Paul...each can do what the other doesn't.
Finish is absolute perfection, silking on the spruce top is like some I have only seen on singular Guild pieces. Neck is a slight vee, a little heavier than I would opt for but not as big as the Tacoma-Guild builds. Waverly tuners are smooth as silk under tension...oh, this is what they are supposed to be like! As Sandy notes, $100 better than Gotohs, probably not. Its TKL hard case positions itself somewhere between my H & D's and the newer Guilds...but its top has the same "not quite fitting" quality that requires an extra nudge before you can latch it.
The neck adjustment is a bit hard to get to, and as she has Bill Monroe style action right now, will probably bring her to The Music Emporium in Lexington and spring for a complete set up. Bridge will need to be taken down some and I would just as soon let an authorized dealer do that.
Oh Cliff, figured out the electrics for her...called Shure SM57!
Over all, quite a great piece and proud to have won her. Really appreciate that Bill Collings and his organization support the Steve Kaufman Acoustic Kamp with a donation like this. She will do quite a bit for me as far as learning fiddle tunes, the sound is just right...F47R is now in DADGAD tuning...D55 is clearly the fingerstyle guitar (didn't John Renbourne use one?)...the H & D with GHS Vintage Bronze strings is the blues and rag machine.
Now, I just have to learn to play all this stuff!
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krysh
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congrats bill!
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Thanks again for all the kind comments. Following the epistle above I spent another two hours or so on the front porch, F47 and D2H in alternate hand repetively going through the dozen or so fiddle tunes I know...don't know if it was pleasing or bothering the catbird and cardinal pair that noisily were singing along the entire time...I think they probably were more attracted to the free supper I was offering (feeders and suet)...and requesting a change of menu?
The review above withstands this second look :smile-new:
"Official" Kaufman Kamp photo:
The review above withstands this second look :smile-new:
"Official" Kaufman Kamp photo:
