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Alembic products => Alembic Basses & Guitars => Topic started by: lbpesq on February 07, 2008, 09:05:05 PM

Title: February COTM
Post by: lbpesq on February 07, 2008, 09:05:05 PM

George:
 
Congrats!  Beautiful instrument.  As a fellow Alembic 12 string player, we are perhaps the most unique subset of this club.  I'll bet it sounds incredible!  A very deserving choice.  I suspect you'll have new wallpaper on your computer tomorrow.
 
Bill tgo

Title: February COTM
Post by: jacko on February 08, 2008, 04:36:54 AM

Congratulations George. That's probably the most beautiful guitar I've ever seen (sorry Bill).  
 
graeme

Title: February COTM
Post by: artswork99 on February 08, 2008, 05:33:38 AM

Very nice George.  Beautiful instrument!  Congratulations.
Play it healthy!
Art

Title: February COTM
Post by: georgie_boy on February 08, 2008, 11:10:45 AM

Seconded from another Scottish guy!
 
G

Title: February COTM
Post by: David Houck on February 08, 2008, 12:48:10 PM

Beautiful!!!
 
The video of Kottke playing Louise was pretty cool too!!

Title: February COTM
Post by: rami on February 09, 2008, 06:38:11 AM

Just beautiful - a 12 string baritone guitar!!!  I can only imagine how it sounds.
 
Wow!!!

Title: February COTM
Post by: george_wright on February 10, 2008, 10:25:34 AM

Thanks for the appreciative words, folks, but I think the credit has to go to the builders :-)!
 
As for the wallpaper, Bill, I've had it up for several weeks.  I suspect you might have had a similar experience....
 
One mid-January morning I found a message from Mica in my email queue with the subject Featured Custom.  She said she was planning on featuring the baritone in February.  We exchanged a few more emails, one of which had a link to the unpublished draft page---from which I grabbed the wallpaper.
 
It was strange in the last week of January and the first week of February, waiting for it to be published.  I felt like I could foretell the future.  When it finally appeared, it took me a moment to realize it.
 
So....  If my experience is any guide, one of you out there can look forward to an email from Mica in just about a week.  Your challenge will then be to keep things to yourself until the March COTM appears.
 
Rami, as for how it sounds, well, it can sound pretty dang authoritative :-).  Since it's tuned B E A D F# B, I can drop the low string down to A for a drop A tuning.  That low A is the same pitch as the A on a bass.  When I play it that way through my  Acme Low B4 (http://www.acmebass.com/), it's all there, in spades.

Title: February COTM
Post by: jason on February 11, 2008, 04:04:43 PM

Bill, you have played this instrument. This is the one I was raving about the sound of, and made you play it.
 
(Had to twist his arm real 'ard, I did!)

Title: February COTM
Post by: David Houck on February 11, 2008, 07:43:30 PM

Hi Jason!