Cougar
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Gorgeous pair!My '99 JF30-12 is my go-to strummer.... that's her New Hartford F50 cousin below....
Gorgeous pair!My '99 JF30-12 is my go-to strummer.... that's her New Hartford F50 cousin below....
Apart from double truss rods and good quality tuners the greatest innovation for 12-string guitars in my lifetime is the clip-on battery powered tuner.Old 12- string jokes:
When tuning a 12 string guitar, determine which string is out of tune and then tune the other 11 to match it...
and..
Those who play 12-string guitar spend half their lives tuning it, and the other half playing out of tune.
And back to the topic: I'm a wimp. My '71 F-412 has been through many wars and shows the scars, including a neck reset before I bought her. With respect to that, she is kept tuned 1/2 step down.
My '72 F-112 was kept a 1/2 step down, and it still ended up needing a neck re-set. So...go figure.
Picked up my JF30-12 yesterday. It was still in tune. So I guess the answer is zero.Question: How long does it take to tune a 12 string guitar?
Anyone who says they've played a 12 string for 50 years, has spent at least 30 of them tuning...Question: How long does it take to tune a 12 string guitar?
Answer: No one knows.
....... and the remaining 20 simply playing out of tune.Anyone who says they've played a 12 string for 50 years, has spent at least 30 of them tuning...
That picking thing he's got going on is just unreal.I think it's my fave 12 string song every penned or performed:
that and he started to sing more. lolI love many of Kottke's open tuned pieces. But at some point in his career he stopped using open tunings, even going so far as to disparage his pieces that employed them -- i.e.: pretty much the entire "Armadillo Album" and several of the albums that followed.
It seems as close he gets to an open tunings these days is dropped D.
There's always a couple good pieces on any of his albums, but to my ears the further he got from using open tunings the less interesting his music became.
Interesting take on it, Glenn! I should listen to more Kottke!I love many of Kottke's open tuned pieces. But at some point in his career he stopped using open tunings, even going so far as to disparage his pieces that employed them -- i.e.: pretty much the entire "Armadillo Album" and several of the albums that followed.
It seems as close he gets to an open tunings these days is dropped D.
There's always a couple good pieces on any of his albums, but to my ears the further he got from using open tunings the less interesting his music became.