A Cool Yule and a little Christmas Competition

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A Cool Yule and a little Christmas Competition

Post by Dave White » Thu Dec 13, 2007 9:39 pm

I posted this on the OLF so apologies for duplication for some of you. I'd like to say a Cool Yule to all ANZLF'ers and have recorded a Christmas Carol for you all. This Carol has always fascinated me since I was a little boy - I think it's the "dark" quality and the references to torches - burning in the New Year. It could also be about the spontaneous combustion of Giant Tortoises in the Galapagos Islands - Kim will get this one :D .

Anyway here's an off-the cuff arrangement of Torches in DADGAD that started to emerge last week and that I recorded tonight. I also thought it would be fun to record a number of guitars one after the other with the same tune and same recording set-up (AKG C1000S microphone with flat EQ and no added effects). So as a fun competition see if you can match the four clips to the guitars.

Guitars:

All Cuban Mahogany Parlour
Euro spruce/ EIR fan-fret
Euro spruce/Black Limba Grand Concert
Cedar/maple Grand Concert

Torches1

Torches2

Torches3

Torches4
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Post by Paul B » Thu Dec 13, 2007 10:48 pm

Thanks Dave, I enjoyed that a lot.

My guess is...

Torches1 - All Cuban Mahogany Parlour

Torches2 - Euro spruce/ EIR fan-fret

Torches3 - Cedar/maple Grand Concert

Torches4 - Euro spruce/Black Limba Grand Concert

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Post by Allen » Fri Dec 14, 2007 6:09 pm

Lovely tune Dave. Heres my guess.

Torches 1 Cedar/maple Grand Concert

Torches 2 All Cuban Mahogany Parlour

Torches 3 Euro spruce/Black Limba Grand Concert

Torches 4 Euro spruce/ EIR fan-fret
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Post by Tom Morici » Fri Dec 14, 2007 8:01 pm

Dave,
This is a great execise in ear training, and by the way all four guitars sound real nice! And of course, your wonderful playing.

I found it easy to hear both the small box of the parlour guitar and the cedar/maple GC. What was hard, was too decide which one was the fan fret euro. I cheated I went to your web site to hear the recording of the Fan fret. I found it interesting that I could not tell the difference before I was able to listen to what the fan fret sounded like.

I found this fun, as a test for myself. Thanks for taking the time to do this.

Tom

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Post by Hesh1956 » Fri Dec 14, 2007 11:39 pm

1. Cuban mahogany parlour
2. Cedar/maple GC
3. Euro/EIR fan fret
4. Euro/Black Limba GC :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Post by Serge » Sat Dec 15, 2007 4:29 am

My gut feeling is to side with brother Paul on this! :D
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Post by Dave White » Sat Dec 15, 2007 5:32 am

Hesh1956 wrote:1. Cuban mahogany parlour
2. Cedar/maple GC
3. Euro/EIR fan fret
4. Euro/Black Limba GC :lol: :lol: :lol:
Hesh - don't forget that you're in the Southern Hmisphere here so the order will be subtly different!
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Post by Hesh1956 » Sun Dec 16, 2007 12:05 am

Thanks Dave - got it, the turds swirl in the other direction..... :lol:

1. Euro/Limba GC
2. Euro EIR fan fret
3. Cedar maple GC
4. Cuban mahogany parlour

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Post by Serge » Sun Dec 16, 2007 3:29 am

Oh boy, i can feel it, it's gonna hit the fan! :shock:

:lol:
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