Thank you for this lovely tribute. The guitar turned out well after its rejuvenation. Sounds fabulous in your skilled hands. I hope it will be happy in its new home xx
Thanks. It’s an incredible instrument. Dialled in by a world leader in these things. Couldn’t justify owning two of the same model otherwise it’d have stayed. Love it. Colin does too. He shared a pic of him in bed with it the night he got it!!
Hey Martyn. Thanks so much for the great demo. You have a very impressive collection of NATIONALs and are doing a tremendous job keeping THE BLUES alive! 😎✌️👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻☘️🍀
Great guitar with a cool story behind it - thanks for sharing. Funny that you played a short segment of "Guitar Rag" at the end because Nov.2nd marked the 100th anniversary of Sylvester Weaver recording this tune, which is also the 100th anniversary of a black blues guitarist to be recorded for the first time and the first recording of bottleneck slide guitar as well. 🙂
I recently started using metal finger picks and I'm killing wound g strings super fast, like in a couple days if I play a bunch of hours finger style. Is there a way around this? Or is it just how it goes and I should just buy a ton of single g's? I'm currently using Martin 80/20 12-54 strings and brass national finger picks
I use a plastic thumbpick and metal fingerpicks. Can get about 20-25 gigs out of a full set of strings on the guitar before the G gets ground flat or the frets ‘cut’ the string windings and kill the strings. Not sure beyond this what you’re doing to kill them so quick. I do turn my finger picks around a little so they make perpendicular contact with the string.
Thank you for this lovely tribute. The guitar turned out well after its rejuvenation. Sounds fabulous in your skilled hands. I hope it will be happy in its new home xx
Thanks. It’s an incredible instrument. Dialled in by a world leader in these things. Couldn’t justify owning two of the same model otherwise it’d have stayed. Love it. Colin does too. He shared a pic of him in bed with it the night he got it!!
Hey Martyn. Thanks so much for the great demo. You have a very impressive collection of NATIONALs and are doing a tremendous job keeping THE BLUES alive! 😎✌️👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻☘️🍀
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Great story! Amazing sound!
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FAB STORY! Lovely guitar! OH, YOU STARTED PLAYING SLIDE,AS I WAS WRITING, IT SOUNDS AMAZING!!!
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Thanks!!
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Sounds brilliant will come and see you at a gig sometime thanks Tony
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Another great video, he is a lucky man, the guy who is going to end up with that beauty
Very! It’s a beaut.
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Great guitar with a cool story behind it - thanks for sharing. Funny that you played a short segment of "Guitar Rag" at the end because Nov.2nd marked the 100th anniversary of Sylvester Weaver recording this tune, which is also the 100th anniversary of a black blues guitarist to be recorded for the first time and the first recording of bottleneck slide guitar as well. 🙂
That’s true. Think it’s time to do a video on that centenary.
Great Video Martyn 😎
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Dude that is an amazing instrument!you always do them justice! (Lofi Appalachia here)
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Beautiful guitar
Oh yeahhhh!!
I recently started using metal finger picks and I'm killing wound g strings super fast, like in a couple days if I play a bunch of hours finger style. Is there a way around this? Or is it just how it goes and I should just buy a ton of single g's? I'm currently using Martin 80/20 12-54 strings and brass national finger picks
I use a plastic thumbpick and metal fingerpicks. Can get about 20-25 gigs out of a full set of strings on the guitar before the G gets ground flat or the frets ‘cut’ the string windings and kill the strings.
Not sure beyond this what you’re doing to kill them so quick. I do turn my finger picks around a little so they make perpendicular contact with the string.
I have a chance to buy a 1937 Trojan for $200. It looks really nice in the pictures, hopefully it's as nice in person.
Absolute bargain. I’d give you 4x that regardless for condition!
You start talking in a good loud voice, but by the end of the sentence you can't be heard.
Dayum.