How'd you get into 12-strings?
Just curious I guess. I caught the bug early in my gtr-playing "career". I was purely an elec gtr player from '64-'83, picked up a new acoustic for parties/courting/whatever in '67 - Fender Villager...
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The Byrds started my infatuation, and Paul Stookey sealed the deal with his gift to Peter Yarrow, "Wedding Song". I have only played and sung this once, at a wedding where the participants divorced 6...
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Similarly to what David said about early influences, another was Mark Spoelstra who used to play in the Village. Sometime in the early 60s (remember all I was playing was the nylon string Harmony) I...
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Mike, we've actually seen about 3 or 4 F-612s pass hands in the last year on LetsTalkGuild. But, of course, you're right. They're rare as hen's teeth, but they're out there. Most that we've seen...
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Chazmo, to me the F212XL is the definitive Guild 12 string sound. Sadly, I can't use them anymore. I've owned at least three, and ended up selling all of them because the neck was too narrow. Why I...
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The Byrds, for sure. And later John Denver. But seeing Tim Buckley with that big ol' double pick guarded Guild was responsible for me making sure I'm never without a 12.
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I may be the newest member of this club, I got my first-ever 12-string for my 64th birthday, it arrived just last week! (NGD posted a few days ago in the D-28 lounge). For me it was guitar stores plus...
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Congratulations, Jay. Nothing like starting at the top. Hope I don't have to wait till I'm 64 to get one of those fabulous instruments (but it's rapidly approaching )Play well and in good health
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Welcome aboard, Jay. 12 strings are so different, and yet we all find ways to love 'em.
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Congratulations, Jay! That's a perfect birthday present!
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How did I get into 12 string ? Well in ther early '60s I was a "hanger on" at the local gigs by the Rolling Stones and they were very friendly to me - telling me which country blues singers to search...
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Do you mean something like this? http://massstreetmusic.com/collections/acoustic-guitars/products/collings-01-12-string-maple Harmony H-173 bought in 1960 (retired), Alvarez AC60S 2008, Eastman...
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With Lightfoot, Denver, a matched pair of Glen Campbell "Fokswingers" 12 string albums, and the much-noted "Walk Right In" out there, I knew I wanted one. My neighbor loaned me his Gibson B-25-12 and...
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I've never had a real musical connection to the Folk Scare and its progeny, Leo Kottke or the blues guys. When I was learning the guitar in the 80's, I was listening to the great stuff of the 60's:...
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My wife said something to the effect that if you played a 12 string, that would really be something. So, I found a beautiful 12 and started playing it.
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Fisher wrote:My wife said something to the effect that if you played a 12 string, that would really be something. So, I found a beautiful 12 and started playing it.I once told my wife that I ought to...
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Gfspencer - gotta jump on an opportunity. Good job! Best wishes.
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I decided to try to play acoustic guitar and write songs in 1969 because of James Taylor. I borrowed money from my Dad, went to a local music store and bought a 1969 Yamaha FG-180 and loved it and...
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Back in the early 1960s somebody told me that one of the things the old blues guys used to do was take a 12 string and remove the two lowest octvave strings. Believing everything somebody told me I...
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When I was about 11 or 12, one of my older brothers would sit on his front porch and play his 12-string Gibson. Mostly Bob Gibson, Phil Ochs, Tom Rush type songs. I fell in love with the sound of that...
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