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I've played a lot of guitars, but I've never had one start playing on its own before!

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Patch
Posted 2012-07-17 3:21 PM (#456742)
Subject: I've played a lot of guitars, but I've never had one start playing on its own before!



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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent

When I visited my parents recently to provide a little "grand-kids" time, I made sure to take along my new Custom FD14-X Redwood. I posted about it here when I received it and raved about it in a way that I'm certain all readers found to be totally unbiased.

You can see the thread HERE.

As I had mentioned, the man who built it made a point to tell me this one was something special. When you play it, you can feel harmonic vibrations throughout the instrument; the neck, the bowl, the headstock....everywhere! This guitar just shimmers in a very tactile way. I've never felt anything like it before.

But it had another surprise in store for me. While visiting, I took it out on the back porch to walk my parents through the construction in 'probably-way-too-much" detail. Then I realized that I was just holding it by the back bowl and the tip of the headstock and I could feel the vibrations even though I was not playing! And if I stopped to listen, I could actually here a low to mid-range hum coming faintly, but sweetly, from the instrument!

I was stunned!

I looked up and noticed the ceiling fan was on. If I moved back about a foot, the guitar became still. If I moved back under the fan (which was not even set on high), it began to sing and dance some more.

Is that cool or what!

 

 

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ProfessorBB
Posted 2012-07-17 4:10 PM (#456747 - in reply to #456742)
Subject: Re: I've played a lot of guitars, but I've never had one start playing on its own before!



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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains		This is one of the reasons I keep all my guitars on the walls in my bandroom. As I play one, plugged in, of course, and relatively loudly, all the others buzz, hum and vibrate. Its like they're all getting played a little all the time. When I was babysitting Mark's (elginacres) No. 43 slothead, I noticed that perhaps more than any other guitar in the room, it "sang" along. I would quit playing, then immediately place my ear next to the sound board and it would hum along for another 10 seconds. Amazing. Its my way of playing all of 'em all of the time.
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Mark in Boise
Posted 2012-07-17 4:39 PM (#456748 - in reply to #456742)
Subject: Re: I've played a lot of guitars, but I've never had one start playing on its own before!


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Location: Boise, Idaho		Mine sing along as well, even though I don't play too loudly. If I sneeze, it sets them all off. Seems like playing an A sets them off more than any other note.
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stephent28
Posted 2012-07-17 4:47 PM (#456749 - in reply to #456742)
Subject: Re: I've played a lot of guitars, but I've never had one start playing on its own before!



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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066		Last time I was under a moving ceiling fan I lifted up and got my headstock wacked from the whirling blades.
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Darkbar
Posted 2012-07-17 5:20 PM (#456750 - in reply to #456742)
Subject: Re: I've played a lot of guitars, but I've never had one start playing on its own before!



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Location: Flahdaw		Consider yourself lucky. There's nothing more annoying than actually having to physically play your guitars...
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SOBeach
Posted 2012-07-17 7:40 PM (#456763 - in reply to #456742)
Subject: RE: I've played a lot of guitars, but I've never had one start playing on its own before!


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Location: sitting at my computer

gee Patch, I guess ya won't be needing one of these then...

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FlySig
Posted 2012-07-18 10:19 AM (#456791 - in reply to #456747)
Subject: Re: I've played a lot of guitars, but I've never had one start playing on its own before!



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boltonb - 2012-07-17 4:10 PM
When I was babysitting Mark's (elginacres) No. 43 slothead, I noticed that perhaps more than any other guitar in the room, it "sang" along. I would quit playing, then immediately place my ear next to the sound board and it would hum along for another 10 seconds. Amazing.


I have never experienced a guitar which vibrated so freely as #43. Amazing indeed.
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GeneT
Posted 2012-07-18 2:23 PM (#456806 - in reply to #456742)
Subject: Re: I've played a lot of guitars, but I've never had one start playing on its own before!



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Location: Florida		My doubleneck does that, of course. It sounds cool when you set the p/u switch to both. You can easily see the strings on the unused neck vibrating
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stonebobbo
Posted 2012-07-18 4:13 PM (#456816 - in reply to #456742)
Subject: Re: I've played a lot of guitars, but I've never had one start playing on its own before!



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Location: Tennessee		The one guitar I had that would absolutely howl with sympathetic vibration was my original Josh White.
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Standingovation
Posted 2012-07-19 6:04 AM (#456829 - in reply to #456742)
Subject: Re: I've played a lot of guitars, but I've never had one start playing on its own before!



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Location: Phoenix AZ		I've noticed the same thing. There are a few guitars in the house that will vibrate simply from the air movement of the ceiling fan. Has to do with the helmholtz frequency and the distance from the fan. I coke bottle or milk jug will do the same thing if you hold it at just the right distance.
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