playing guitar on a stand?

matthew · Post by **matthew** » Thu Dec 30, 2010 7:48 am

What's he got the guitar attached to? I've never seen anyone doing this to an acoustic before.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC4SaZ9G-MY

kiwigeo · Post by **kiwigeo** » Thu Dec 30, 2010 8:16 am

It's a support for the upper bout that sits on his knee. It's a replacement for a foot stand......ie it holds the guitar in a good playing position but without you having to have your knee raised on a foot stand.

I'd say the knee stand came from the same inventor as this device:

charangohabsburg · Post by **charangohabsburg** » Thu Dec 30, 2010 8:27 am

kiwigeo wrote:I'd say the knee stand came from the same inventor as this device:
[...]

Maybe.

And maybe the inventor of "this device" was inspired

...by Dionisio Aguado:

: Dionisio Aguado.
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Picture borrowed from Wikimedia.org

Who knows.

matthew · Post by **matthew** » Thu Dec 30, 2010 10:14 am

And maybe that last instrument is a prototype of Cooktown Ironwood and is too heavy for the poor wimpy guys leg ...

DarwinStrings · Post by **DarwinStrings** » Thu Dec 30, 2010 1:38 pm

I am not sure that Cooktown ironwood would have been available when that lithograph was made so I am guessing African blackwood may have been the problem with weight.

Jim

kiwigeo · Post by **kiwigeo** » Thu Dec 30, 2010 1:52 pm

Would look more at home on a banjo players knee.

liam_fnq · Post by **liam_fnq** » Thu Dec 30, 2010 2:00 pm

You'd need a little rocking base to match his chair though

sebastiaan56 · Post by **sebastiaan56** » Thu Dec 30, 2010 3:21 pm

Actually its a La Prevotte and its made of Birsdeye Maple and Swiss Spruce.

Kim · Post by **Kim** » Thu Dec 30, 2010 3:38 pm

I bet he's play'in 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'

Cheers

Kim

DarwinStrings · Post by **DarwinStrings** » Thu Dec 30, 2010 3:41 pm

sebastiaan56 wrote:Actually its a La Prevotte and its made of Birsdeye Maple and Swiss Spruce.

Smarty pants

kiwigeo · Post by **kiwigeo** » Thu Dec 30, 2010 5:43 pm

sebastiaan56 wrote:Actually its a La Prevotte and its made of Birsdeye Maple and Swiss Spruce.

What about the guys shoes....who made them. Id like a fine pair of shiney shoes like he's wearing.

ozziebluesman · Post by **ozziebluesman** » Thu Dec 30, 2010 6:11 pm

G'day Mathew,

I've seen Carlos Santana use one of these upright guitar stands on the Acadamy Awards recently. He also used one on a dvd I saw apparently so he could change from acoustic to electric guitar quickly and easily.

Cheers

Alan

Dominic · Post by **Dominic** » Thu Dec 30, 2010 6:47 pm

James Hetfield uses a free standing electro/classical so he can switch to the classical bits in songs without taking his electric off. Went to see the boys in Sydney in November. Awesome guitarists and awesome show.
Dom

charangohabsburg · Post by **charangohabsburg** » Sat Jan 01, 2011 5:44 am

Dominic wrote: [...] so he can switch to the classical bits in songs without taking his electric off. [...]

Others like to play two guitars simultaneously, just like this guy here. They also might want such a stand. It also doesn't surprise me that after having played two guitars simultaneously some will need... well, we already had this: go back to the second message of this thread

BTW: I agree with sebastiaan56 that Aguado's axe is a La Prévotte.

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