Quote from: edwardofhuncote on October 17, 2026, 01:48:43 PMThat's interesting Dave; I half-expected your playing style goals to mirror your bass technique. 😊

#3 Son spent his college years teaching himself to fingerpick like Townes Van Zandt.

Near the end of that time, he was home, & the drummer & lead player from his high school band came over; the bass player not being in the vicinity, the lad pulled out his (now my, pretty much) bass, and they commenced in to jamming.

Townes on bass is a very nice thing; I bet a good bass player on guitar would work too (especially if you do fingers on the fat string thing).

Peter

Peter

Kind of a fun watch. Geo. Gruhn with a trio from his personal collection;
1924 Gibson L-5,
1902 Martin 00-42
1852 Martin Custom, Size 1


Of course time only runs in one direction, but he's really aged since I last saw him. That was 29 years ago when I was living in Nashville. My boss at the case shop and him were friends so on a quiet afternoon we'd go down to the shop on Broadway. I got to see the cool stuff (and the snakes) upstairs.

Quote from: edwardofhuncote on <strong>Yesterday</strong> at 04:25:34 AMKind of a fun watch. Geo. Gruhn with a trio from his personal collection;
1924 Gibson L-5,
1902 Martin 00-42
1852 Martin Custom, Size 1

Of course time only runs in one direction, but he's really aged since I last saw him. That was 29 years ago when I was living in Nashville. My boss at the case shop and him were friends so on a quiet afternoon we'd go down to the shop on Broadway. I got to see the cool stuff (and the snakes) upstairs.

Enjoyed this; thanks for posting!

Oh, and there were four; you left out the 1929 L5.

Quote from: David Houck on <strong>Yesterday</strong> at 08:51:00 AM

Quote from: edwardofhuncote on <strong>Yesterday</strong> at 04:25:34 AMKind of a fun watch. Geo. Gruhn with a trio from his personal collection;
1924 Gibson L-5,
1902 Martin 00-42
1852 Martin Custom, Size 1

Of course time only runs in one direction, but he's really aged since I last saw him. That was 29 years ago when I was living in Nashville. My boss at the case shop and him were friends so on a quiet afternoon we'd go down to the shop on Broadway. I got to see the cool stuff (and the snakes) upstairs.

Enjoyed this; thanks for posting!

Oh, and there were four; you left out the 1929 L5.

Sure was. I was as much listening as watching my phone in the shop this morning. Had to scramble and get a couple jobs done for the store, then to get to town and get back before the mail ran today. I heard him doing a comparison and talking about the few Loar-signed examples then mentioned the later ones. I did stop and watch the bit about that old Size 1 Custom.

Very interesting - and, yes, I want them all!
But I'm disappointed in George, talking about the "double oh".  He of all people should know that model (like all Martins before the dreadnaught & OM) had a numeric designation, not an alphabetic one; those are zeros.  It's 00 ("double ought"), not OO.

Peter (who will admit to a tendency to pick the fly poop out of the pepper - but not to that being annoying........  )