New Guitsr & New Scots Tune
Posted: Sun May 29, 2022 8:20 pm
Hope all is well with everyone. I've been slowed down a bit recently when I god a dose of Covid.
But it didn't hit too bad, though the recovery period is one of slow progress. But I'm more than happy that's all it's amounting to.
Thinking ahead to when my finger joints get worse , I've invested in a (low budget) Baby-Concert acoustic.
A Rathbone Number 1 - Solid Cedar Top (with really nice wood grain), Rosewood Back & Sides.
Cutaway electro-acoustic, 23 inch / 590mm scale, bone nut and saddle.
I'd not heard of Rathbone before, but they are tied in with Barnes & Mullins, going back to 1900 it seems from the headstock.
https://www.rathboneguitars.com/r1crce.html
The pictures shown on the link are a good representation of what the one I got looks like.
Nice quality and feels solid with good finish. Action was a bit high, but the local guitar builder Mark Burnet set it up nicely!
It does play nice and easy and the short scale length does help.
Here's a piece loosely inspired by a Scots tune 'Scarcity of Potatoes' - 19th Century Highland Potato Famine - not a s bad as the Irish Potato Famine, but still 200,000 people seriously at risk.
Hopefully the name I've given this is a proper translation of the English words 'Where's My Potatoes'.
I hope that the nice resonances from this small guitar come over in the recording.
In DADGAD tuning (of course).
But it didn't hit too bad, though the recovery period is one of slow progress. But I'm more than happy that's all it's amounting to.
Thinking ahead to when my finger joints get worse , I've invested in a (low budget) Baby-Concert acoustic.
A Rathbone Number 1 - Solid Cedar Top (with really nice wood grain), Rosewood Back & Sides.
Cutaway electro-acoustic, 23 inch / 590mm scale, bone nut and saddle.
I'd not heard of Rathbone before, but they are tied in with Barnes & Mullins, going back to 1900 it seems from the headstock.
https://www.rathboneguitars.com/r1crce.html
The pictures shown on the link are a good representation of what the one I got looks like.
Nice quality and feels solid with good finish. Action was a bit high, but the local guitar builder Mark Burnet set it up nicely!
It does play nice and easy and the short scale length does help.
Here's a piece loosely inspired by a Scots tune 'Scarcity of Potatoes' - 19th Century Highland Potato Famine - not a s bad as the Irish Potato Famine, but still 200,000 people seriously at risk.
Hopefully the name I've given this is a proper translation of the English words 'Where's My Potatoes'.
I hope that the nice resonances from this small guitar come over in the recording.
In DADGAD tuning (of course).