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In January I sold the first harp guitar I made to a young British acoustic guitarist Dale Campbell. He has posted a video on Youtube of the beginnings of a song - the guitar is in GABCDEDADGAD tuning and is fitted with a custom set of K&K Pure Mini Western - three transducers on the main and two on the sub-bass strings. It's nice to see it being really played:

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Dave White
De Faoite Stringed Instruments
". . . the one thing a machine just can't do is give you character and personalities and sometimes that comes with flaws, but it always comes with humanity" Monty Don talking about hand weaving, "Mastercrafts", Weaving, BBC March 2010

Congrats Dave
That's a beautiful sounding instrument.
You and the owner must be very proud.
Mat

Fantastic Dave, no wonder your one of my favorite builders, you just have to be proud of building an instrument that can produce sounds like that.

Cheers

Kim

Very nice David, have you posted any details of this instrument, I for one am very interested.

Fred

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Fred Tellier
http://www.fetellierguitars.com
Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/pages/FE-Tellier-Guitars/163451547003866

Mat, Kim, Todd - thanks.

Fred - Thanks. There's a photo documentary of the making of Jacob (the harp guitar) here on my website plus some sound-clips.

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Dave White
De Faoite Stringed Instruments
". . . the one thing a machine just can't do is give you character and personalities and sometimes that comes with flaws, but it always comes with humanity" Monty Don talking about hand weaving, "Mastercrafts", Weaving, BBC March 2010

Wow Dave! That is a fine sounding and looking HG. Are you happy with the K&K Mini Westerns? They have 5 transducers? Seems to do a good job of getting the whole sound out.

Cheers,
Danny

AWESOME!!!!!!

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Bill Hodge


One does not simply, own enough guitars!

Sounds very good. I have a customer asking for a classical with a pickup - I see K&k offers one for nylon too, I'll need to dig around the net about them.

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Build log

At last we can hear it played properly .

Dave that's superb, great to get your guitars out there and recognised. When someone hears one of your guitars and says that he must have it, that should make you really proud.

Colin

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I don't believe in anything, I simply make use of a set of reasonable working hypotheses.

Congrads Dave, pretty cool.

Everything works so well in that clip. The guitar, his composition, playing, and the effects are all great.

Kudos, Dave. Nice guitar and nice video.

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Waddy

Photobucket Build Album Library

Sound Clips of most of my guitars

sounds great!!

hi Dave
sounds great, what is the body shape based on other than the "harp extension" it looks smallish.
yours Geordie

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some tunes on acoustic and guitar synth.
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheGeordieAdams
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That is definitely the coolest looking harp guitar I've ever seen by far, bravo . A most contemporary take on the instrument. I may have to figure out a way to steal some of your styling cues and project them on my banduras. Sound is really nice too.

I'm very torn on whether I like the piece though. (Yes I know this belongs in off topic). At first I was completely underwhelmed because it's almost harmonically too simple (embarrassingly, kind of a snobby reaction) but I'm warming up a bit. I could go on, but It's probably not the place.

p.s. you don't have any photos that you could post do you?

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Hats off to any builder who can get a sound that large from a smallish body.
Very nice, Dave...as usual.

Steve

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From Nacogdoches...the oldest town in Texas.

http://www.stephenkinnaird.com

Fuddles! I just tried it and it says the video is no longer available!

Any ideas?

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Steve Walden
Aspiring Builder,
Bartlesville, OK

Steve,

It works fine for me. Try the direct link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7n8FdIgUoE&fmt=18

or for the low quality one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7n8FdIgUoE

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Dave White
De Faoite Stringed Instruments
". . . the one thing a machine just can't do is give you character and personalities and sometimes that comes with flaws, but it always comes with humanity" Monty Don talking about hand weaving, "Mastercrafts", Weaving, BBC March 2010

Dave - Fantastic! Thanks for the direct link. It worked perfectly as well as the sound of the harp guitar!

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Steve Walden
Aspiring Builder,
Bartlesville, OK

Woooo Hooooo!

I love it, Dave! He's pulling those big fat submarine notes out with ease. Great harp!

Dennis

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Dennis Leahy
Duluth, MN, USA
7th Sense Multimedia

How much could you expect one could spend buying one of these?
Absolutely beautiful!