and Taj Mahal exhume the National and today a simmering cult of obsessives collect these instruments and lift bass lines from virtuosos like Catfish Keith, Roy Rogers (not the cowboy), boogie-master Del Ray and Bob Brozman. NOTE that now these are made in both roundneck (set up for regular playing), and squareneck (for lapstyle). They are the Scheerhorn L-Body Series, all spider cone guitars. You can hear it in action on this cut from his new CD with partner Sue Foleys blazing Telecastor on an instrumental called 'Plank Spank' from. They are offering five models, and you can order them from me here. Critically acclaimed Blind Pig recording artist Peter Karp is known for his whiskey soaked vocals, prolific songwriting and his fiery National ResoRocket resonator. The вЂ™60s saw a group of youthful blues revivalists like John Hammond, Jr. Since 2013, National Reso-Phonic is the manufacturer for the production model Scheerhorn Guitars. These steel- and brass-bodied instruments are forever linked to the Delta and Piedmont blues styles, being famously played by seminal bluesmen like Blind Boy Fuller (who fingerpicked gently tumbling rags and East Coast blues) and Son House (who banged and slid on his National like a man possessed). ItвЂ™s a crossbreed that could easily pass as innovation surprisingly, itвЂ™s an innovation first introduced in the 1930s.Дuring that time National Reso-PhonicвЂ™s mechanically amplified instruments were a guitaristвЂ™s first choice when rocking blues jook houses and pummeling rhythm parts in hot-jazz bands. With 14 frets to a typical resonatorвЂ™s 12, the new 14-fret Style вЂњOвЂќ guitar exists as something of a hybrid, a split between a gutbucket slide tool and an expansive, strum-friendly dreadnought.

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