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Weissenborn's are great instruments. I have a Tim Kill Mahogany Weiss (Timkillcustom.com) that predominately lives in Open D though I like CGCGCE as well. I play mine with John Pearce Open D strings and a Tribo tonebar and Diamond slides glass tonebar.
When I moved to Australia I really got into Jeff Lang and his lap slide and that lead me to Tim's guitars. I also really like Michael Messer, Jack Rose and Harry Manx.
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Limited time to spend playing music + fascination with Weissenborn = barely playing my other guitars = losing my callouses! We were just preparing a bit for some music we are going to be playing in chapel this week, where I'll be playing one of my standard steel string guitars, and I now have hurting fingertips! I need to not let this happen again!
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Very nice. I would love to add a Wessie to my collection..but alas you only have time for just so much. A word of caution - they will not stand up to a lot of string tension, so be careful what gauges and tunings you use.
BTW - I have an older quite thick book of Hawaiian songs that was published for Dobro (Mel Bay I think) That I would sell quite reasonably if one of you is interested in Hawaiian style music. It this one I think. I don't think I have the CD with it though.... http://www.amazon.com/Mel-Hawaiian-S.../dp/0786660872
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Awesome! I would love to have one. Jack Rose played an all koa model that sounded amazing.
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Congrats on the new Weissenborn. I love those guitars and wish I had the time and discipline to learn to play one. Every December we go to a Christmas concert by local boy Ed Gerhard and he always plays a song or two on his Weissenborn. The show is held in an old church all decked out with Christmas decorations and candles and the vibe is just incredible and the Weissenborn's tone just rings out like a guitar/church organ. It's really quite something. If you've never seen Ed Gerhard in concert - especially his Christmas shows - do it!
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So, the other day my wife and I performed together in chapel at the college where I teach, on violin and Weissenborn, respectively. We played three waltzes: Midnight on the Water, Ashokan Farewell, and The Lover's Waltz. I just accompanied on the first one, but played full arrangements that I put together for the second two, and my wife had nice variations that she played on violin. We were dangerously close to crashing at times, since we had not rehearsed all that extensively, but this all came off pretty well. Actually, folks raved about our music (even though I was cringing over some of my intonation issues!). A colleague in another department even e-mailed me to tell me that another person in his department who had been at chapel had said to him: "Hey, did you know that Bill is an outstanding guitar player? I had no idea!" Well, I don't think I'm an outstanding Weissenborn player by any means, but it was fun having others enjoying our music, and I was pleasantly surprised that they were not bothered by all the flaws in my playing that sort of drive me nuts!
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