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| Everyone always talks about how the baritone is an addictive guitar; Ill jump on that bandwagon, too. Tuned down a fifthif a guitar tuned (low to high) standard is E-A-D-G-B-E, then a baritone is tuned down to B-E-A-D-F#-Bthis guitar brings out the growl in your music. In short, when you hit that big E chord, you are really strumming a low B; when you hit a first position A chord, it is actually an E. Pretty neat, huh?
Traditionally used in 1950s country/honky-tonk music (such as Patsy Cline or Merle Haggard records; they called it tic-tac bass and would double stand-up bass lines with electrified low tones), the late 1990s post-grunge nu-metal scene picked up onto baritones to get lower than the dropped-D sounds of Seattle. This guitarwhen plugged into a high gain amp like a Marshall or a Mesatake you to a new level of depth, growl, and darkness. Its longer neck and humbuckers contribute to a resonant tone that cleans up nicely but distorted, punchy roar is its forte. The neck is smooth and medium shaped and the D-Mans black hammertone finish will certainly fit in at those rough hardcore dives a whole lot better than your pink Danelectro baritone. Leave those guitars in the studio for your honky-tonk sessions; bring the Italia to your low-life rock affairs. Strippers might think the Dano is cute, but they never go home with cute. The sonic possibilities of this guitar are intriguing. I find myself tuning it around to open and my own hybrid tunings, breaking out the slide for the lowest Delta gut-bucket blues (sounding a little like the late-Mark Sandman of Morphine), and wondering about different pickup wirings to bring out even more character in this vibey beast. I tell my students and people who ask that the D-Mans long neck can be capoed at the 7th fret for standard sounds. However, it does have heavier strings so string bending and familiar hand feel is a little different, but who cares? This is the kind of instrument that a longtime player, a player in a rut, a sonic experimentalist, or a person looking to fill the space between traditional bass and guitar tones can all appreciate. Review by Mark Rogers Guitar Instructor Earthshaking Music/East Atlanta Village mdouglasr@msn.com Body-Agathis Neck Hard Maple Finger Board Rosewood Neck Joint Bolt-on Scale / Fret 710mm(28")scale / 22f Nut Graphite Nut Width 42mm(1.6535") Head Machine Die-cast Bridge Fixed Bridge Pick Up Neck:Wilkinson WVC Bridge:Wilkinson WVC Pot 2 Vol + 1 Ton Switch 3 way toggle Jack 1/4" Mono Jack Hardware Finish Chrome |
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