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Location: Cork, Ireland | They are rare here, the only one I know about for sure is my 1615 but this looks like another one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNxfTh1Tdgo&NR=1
He's using this contraption than sits over the strings, has a key for each string and you press a key instead of picking a string. Seen one before but any idea what it's called? |
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| Originally posted by sycamore:
...Seen one before but any idea what it's called? A shillelagh ?
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Just another semi-automatic Irish plucker! :p |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Harpsitar? |
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Location: Chicago | Not the most appealing sound, to my ears. |
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Location: Cork, Ireland | Begorrah, ye're all very funny, to be sure.
Agreed, not a pleasant sound, seems to be intended to make the guitar heard on the street. He can't sing either |
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Location: Whitecourt, Ab | Vocally,he might do better with a Bob Dylan song...
I think if he took the time to learn how to play that thing he might as well have learned how to strum |
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Location: Cork, Ireland | Another one (Irish Ovation, not a string plucker thingie)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLAiksc2F9s&feature=related
Unless you consider this performer a string plucker thingie) |
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The other Irish Ovation?
