I also have a PN1 with a spruce top. I bought it to be a guitar I could keep in my car at all times to goof around on but it’s become my favorite guitar to play! Thinking about getting the mahogany too as well because it needs a friend lol
Great video, and read your online article. The history of the guitar is fascinating, obviously it's still evolving. Ten years ago I worked near an auction house, and still regret not buying, for around USD150, a beautiful late-Victorian guitar, with a pronounced V neck. Not sure how comfortable that would have been, but still a gem.
Hello from Belgium! This is really interresting! But did they use steel or gut strings on those parlor guitars back then in the old West? Or maybe both?
Almost always gut strings. When they went to metal, they added tailpieces, so you can see the transition. Sadly modern reproductions don't have the tailpieces, just stronger bracing.
Absolutely right. You can tell when steel strings came in by the rise in the use of tailpieces, which was much later. That said, I wouldn't probably bring a nylon, Nyglut, or gut-stringed guitar to a site unless it had 19th-century bracing and a very responsive solid top. It just plain wouldn't be loud enough for most people to hear. . . . .
I also have a PN1 with a spruce top.
I bought it to be a guitar I could keep in my car at all times to goof around on but it’s become my favorite guitar to play!
Thinking about getting the mahogany too as well because it needs a friend lol
Great video, and read your online article. The history of the guitar is fascinating, obviously it's still evolving. Ten years ago I worked near an auction house, and still regret not buying, for around USD150, a beautiful late-Victorian guitar, with a pronounced V neck. Not sure how comfortable that would have been, but still a gem.
Hello from Belgium! This is really interresting! But did they use steel or gut strings on those parlor guitars back then in the old West? Or maybe both?
Almost always gut strings. When they went to metal, they added tailpieces, so you can see the transition. Sadly modern reproductions don't have the tailpieces, just stronger bracing.
If you are doing a cival war era stuff they did not have steel string until the 1920s just fyi
Absolutely right. You can tell when steel strings came in by the rise in the use of tailpieces, which was much later. That said, I wouldn't probably bring a nylon, Nyglut, or gut-stringed guitar to a site unless it had 19th-century bracing and a very responsive solid top. It just plain wouldn't be loud enough for most people to hear. . . . .