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Post by andyhowell on Feb 23, 2018 19:30:35 GMT
Anyone going?
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Post by 007 on Feb 23, 2018 20:55:56 GMT
Long way to Alabama Andy
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Post by leoroberts on Feb 24, 2018 12:31:10 GMT
I know that RosieTGC is going... which is reason enough to pop along in itself
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Post by ocarolan on Feb 24, 2018 15:29:55 GMT
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Post by andyhowell on Feb 25, 2018 10:10:52 GMT
Went along yesterday to meet our luthiers and also Ian Brown and Chris Stern. The usual mess of a show but with some interesting stuff to share with you.
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Post by andyhowell on Feb 25, 2018 11:17:42 GMT
Well, the Birmingham Show was as messy as ever, a huge aircraft hanger full of heavy metal lunatics playing music and mad levels — you get the picture. A small upstairs gallery had some acoustic stuff in it. ajlucas and RosieTGC were both there. ianlp59 turned up with his mate Terry — who had bought along his Turnstone guitar for Rosie to display. Chris Stern also ambled in. Ian and Chris strolled around both looking very worried that they hadn't added to their guitar collection during the last two weeks. Guitar wise there was not much to report, other than a rather over the top stand from Faith who were heavily hyping the Patrick Eggle connection (inte5restingly Eggle has stopped making acoustics himself — or so it appears from his website). Adrian had two of his guitars on show that he had taken to Halifax, including that lovely all mahogany guitar. If I'd have had the cash I would have taken it home with me. He also had a stunning electric featuring hand rolled pickups — I thought this the best looking electric on show. It had Adrian's trademark sweep shape which looked a bit Les Paul-y. The scale though was a Fender length making it sharper in tone (he said — there was no way you could hear it). Rose had three guitars on display, Terry's (all round too small for me), a spruce and yew guitar and a new guitar that had only been strung up a day or two before. This new guitar was the best of Rosie's guitars I have played. It was (I think) 00 sized with all English woods — a Cypress top and cherry back and side. It just had a little more than the yew guitar, a little bit more resonance and sparkle. If I'd have had the cash I would have taken this home as well. This is the first guitar Rosie has made with a French polish as opposed to lacquer and again I think this added to a more open tone. I've got some photos of this I'll upload later, although they really don't do the guitar justice. This sounded great James Taylor style and with gentle country blues. Of course, I quickly retuned to DADGAD and it really shone there as well. Clearly a new sounding guitar this will be stunning when it opens out a bit. A comfortable guitar with a wonderful tone and finish, with all local woods. Somebody must 'need' this. Finally, a new name — tinklinguitars.co.uks from Nottingham. Nick Tinklin was a student of Adrian's at Newark College. He had two guitars on display. The first was an all Lacewood guitar. Very interesting. I played a lacewood back and sides guitar in Berlin and that really had that classic Gibson sound — this one did as well. Very light and very lightly braced. The second guitar I couldn't hear as well but was spruce and walnut and was a more classic English sounding guitar. Both were on sale at very decent prices. Both had wonderful actions and finish. A lovely lad Nick and I think I might have helped him with a sale. A young guy listened to me play it, told me he had been playing it. Was it a good guitar? Yes. I told him it was great value — it won't be this price in a couple of years from now. Really. As I left he was messing around with his credit cards! Nick had not heard of us hear ad the Soundboard so I've sent him the link and details. Other than that, it was pretty noisy and horrible. Ian, Adrian and Rose are there again today. I suspect they will be locked in a quiet room all week.
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Post by 007 on Feb 25, 2018 11:52:14 GMT
thanks for the report Andy I toyed with the idea of going today but decided against from you report sounds like I didn't miss much
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Post by ianlp59 on Feb 25, 2018 13:12:41 GMT
Andy's report pretty much sums it up. Downstairs, the electric area, was the aural equivalent of Dante's Inferno. I felt ill, rather than having any concerns about adding to my guitar collection. Upstairs was certainly less noisy, though still too much noise to stand any chance of really appreciating anything one might have felt like trying (so I didn't). It was great to hook up with my mate Terry as well as seeing Rosie and Karl again. I did get to play Rosie's guitars the night before at the hotel after a few glasses of red. I liked all three guitars. Of the two guitars I hadn't played before, I was initially drawn more to the Yew guitar. However, the newly strung Cherry guitar with the French polish finish really started to draw me in, a lovely instrument. I'm glad I went, even though my day did not get off to the best of starts - completely flat offside rear tyre which had to be replaced (ouch!) and took to gone midday to sort out.
Any, I'm back to the relative sanity of banjo frailing...
Cheers,
Ian
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Post by andyc on Feb 25, 2018 14:25:07 GMT
Glad I didn't go...!
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Post by ajlucas on Feb 26, 2018 9:18:46 GMT
The sound downstairs was rather like a hundred dogs barking while simultaneously a thousand wasps were trying to escape from bottles. Mercifully there were three half-hour 'no amplifier' breaks during each day. I will be upstairs next year.
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Post by andyhowell on Feb 26, 2018 9:36:52 GMT
The sound downstairs was rather like a hundred dogs barking while simultaneously a thousand wasps were trying to escape from bottles. Mercifully there were three half-hour 'no amplifier' breaks during each day. I will be upstairs next year. The amplifier breaks were surreal as the all donned headphones and acted much the same. Do you reckon it was worth going? SaveSave
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Post by andyhowell on Feb 26, 2018 10:05:50 GMT
A couple of pictures of Rosie's Cypress and Cherry guitar (a very lovely sound).
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Post by dreadnought28 on Feb 26, 2018 16:27:27 GMT
I bought a strap from Hebden Bridge based Pine Leather, some good quality leads, and a pair of matched mics from these guys who were giving 25% off at the show. www.astonmics.com. Report to follow when I’ve had chance to use them, excellently reviewed I found. Good to see Ian briefly, Andy, Rosie, Karl and Terry. A very enjoyable night of Tapas and wine followed.
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Post by Adam on Mar 5, 2018 13:25:26 GMT
I was there with D'Addario, none of you even came and said hello Haha. Imagine being there for two full days in the midst of all that noodling haha. Definitely killer. It is one of the larger and most attended shows generally in the UK, but in terms of acoustic you are right, there isn't too much going on. Adam.
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Post by dreadnought28 on Mar 5, 2018 22:06:18 GMT
I was there with D'Addario, none of you even came and said hello Haha. Imagine being there for two full days in the midst of all that noodling haha. Definitely killer. It is one of the larger and most attended shows generally in the UK, but in terms of acoustic you are right, there isn't too much going on. Adam. I saw the stand the D’Addario stand but it was very busy.
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