Archive for the ‘ Audio and Video Features ’ Category
Ed Bernard: Druckfarben’s New CD!
Sunday, October 2nd, 2011
We’ve just received nine clips from Ed Bernard, one of the teachers at The Twelfth Fret Music School. Here’s Ed’s teacher bio. These are from the new CD for Ed’s band, Druckfarben, and it is available now from their sites: www.druckfarben.ca and via www.bandcamp.com Enjoy! Walk Away: Sons of Anakim: Smaller Wooden Frog: Seems So [...]
The Twelfth Fret Video Tour
Saturday, August 20th, 2011
Recently Grant did a couple of tours of our shop. Here are two versions of it, one about two minutes and the other, in more detail, about ten minutes. Hope you enjoy it! Here’s the Two Minute Tour: And the Ten Minute Tour. And here are a few still photos from the shop.
National ResoPhonic: The Hollowneck Report, Part 1
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
Featuring Square-neck and Hollow-Neck National guitars played in contemporary Bluegrass tuning. Every time we get a late 1920′s National Tricone Hollowneck coming in the door the entire shop grinds to a halt while we drool over this incredible rare and historic guitar. Squareneck players are fascinated by these historic National guitars. Originally built for the [...]
National ResoPhonic: The Hollowneck Report, Part 2
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011In Part 1 of the Hollowneck Report, we took an overview of our project comparing five squareneck National ResoPhonic guitars as bluegrass instruments. In Part 2 we’ll start into the recordings so you can see and hear what they’re really like. First up is the M-1 Mahogany Tri-Cone Squareneck. Here are Burke Carroll and Chris [...]
National ResoPhonic: The Hollowneck Report, Part 3
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011Welcome to Part 3 of National Reso-Phonic: The Hollowneck Report! Here, Burke Carroll and Chris Bennett will demonstrate the National ResoPhonic Style 1 Squareneck Tricone, in brass with nickel plating. Later, we’ll see the Hollowneck version. First, Burke takes a quick look at the instrument by himself and goes for a test drive: Chris Bennett [...]
National ResoPhonic: The Hollowneck Report, Part 4
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011Welcome to Part 4 of National ResoPhonic: The Hollowneck Report! So far, we’ve seen the M1-Mahogany body model and the Style 1 Brass with nickel finish. Moving right along, we’ll take a look at the NRP Single cone Squareneck Model, Steel-body with a Brushed-steel finish. Next up in Part 5 is the Style 1 Hollowneck [...]
National ResoPhonic: The Hollowneck Report, Part 5
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011And here’s Part 5 of National ResoPhonic: The Hollowneck Report. So far, we’ve looked at an M-1 Mahogany Squareneck Tricone, a Style 1 Brass Squareneck Tricone, an NRP Single-cone Squareneck. Now we’re finally into the Hollownecks! First up we’ve got a Style 1 Tricone Hollowneck with Brass body and Nickel Plate. Burke Carroll and Chris [...]
National ResoPhonic: The Hollowneck Report, Part 6
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011Welcome to Part 6, the final installment of The Hollowneck Report! Having looked at three squarenecks – an M1 Mahogany, a Style 1 tricone, and an NRP Single cone – we’ve moved to the hollownecks. In part 5, we saw the Style 1 Brass body with nickel finish. Here, we’ll see the Style 1 with [...]
Don Ross at Hugh’s Room April 27
Saturday, April 9th, 2011
Don Ross, finger style guitarist extraordinaire, is appearing at Hugh’s Room on Wednesday April 27th at 8:30 PM. With him are special guests Peter Kroll-Ploeger and Claus Boesser-Ferrari. If you haven’t seen Don Ross before, here’s a chance to see and hear some amazing guitar work. If you have, here’s an opportunity to see him [...]
Banjo Setup Tour (Video)
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
We asked Grant to give a short introduction into what a banjo setup involves. We’ve taken a Deering Goodtime model out of a box and put it on his bench. We’ll go into this in much more detail in other posts and videos. Enjoy!
Burke Carroll meets a National Style 1 Square Neck Tricone
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011Recently, we ordered and received an unusual instrument from National Reso-Phonic Guitars. It’s a Style 1 Tricone, in chromed brass, but with a square neck. The square neck is usually not a feature of biscuit-style or Tricone instruments, which are usually found in a blues context; it’s normally found coupled with a spider-style resonator and [...]