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My NEW Rodrigo Shopis guitar!
klaatu
Nova ScotiaProdigy Rodrigo Shopis D'Artagnan, 1950s Jacques Castelluccia
Rodrigo and I met in Montreal this past weekend for the handoff. He likes to deliver in person.
The guitar is all I had wished for and more. It is beautiful to look at, has that wonderful aged look that Rodrigo achieves through careful finishing. Specs:
D'Artagnan Model S (for Selmer; the F model is his Favino style guitar, and I have one of those with an oval hole)
Sitka spruce top, Indian rosewood back and sides, walnut neck, Miller tuners and tailpiece, 14 fret, 670 mm scale.
Here are a couple of photos taken with my phone. I'll post better ones later.
The sound is simply amazing. It is VERY loud, so much so that my friend Michel St. Pierre kept asking me where the volume control was. Very open, rich and complex, balanced from top to bottom. It plays soft or loud, responds to whatever you put into it. With the action set at 3mm and 11s for strings, it plays like butter, very effortless.
I spent Saturday afternoon jamming with Michel and a couple of his friends and then took it to the Upstairs Jazz Club that evening, where Yorgui Loeffler was playing with Denis Chang. I asked Denis if it would be OK to show it to Yorgui, and Denis invited me backstage, where I presented the guitar to Yorgui. He played it for about twenty minutes, turned to Denis and said in French, "I would like to play this guitar tonight." And he proceeded to play it for the entire evening! It got a really great christening.
The guitar sounds incredible now, and it is still new, with a lot of opening up still to come. Someone was shooting videos at the Upstairs, and they should be on YouTube soon. In the meantime, here's one I shot on my cell phone.
The guitar is all I had wished for and more. It is beautiful to look at, has that wonderful aged look that Rodrigo achieves through careful finishing. Specs:
D'Artagnan Model S (for Selmer; the F model is his Favino style guitar, and I have one of those with an oval hole)
Sitka spruce top, Indian rosewood back and sides, walnut neck, Miller tuners and tailpiece, 14 fret, 670 mm scale.
Here are a couple of photos taken with my phone. I'll post better ones later.
The sound is simply amazing. It is VERY loud, so much so that my friend Michel St. Pierre kept asking me where the volume control was. Very open, rich and complex, balanced from top to bottom. It plays soft or loud, responds to whatever you put into it. With the action set at 3mm and 11s for strings, it plays like butter, very effortless.
I spent Saturday afternoon jamming with Michel and a couple of his friends and then took it to the Upstairs Jazz Club that evening, where Yorgui Loeffler was playing with Denis Chang. I asked Denis if it would be OK to show it to Yorgui, and Denis invited me backstage, where I presented the guitar to Yorgui. He played it for about twenty minutes, turned to Denis and said in French, "I would like to play this guitar tonight." And he proceeded to play it for the entire evening! It got a really great christening.
The guitar sounds incredible now, and it is still new, with a lot of opening up still to come. Someone was shooting videos at the Upstairs, and they should be on YouTube soon. In the meantime, here's one I shot on my cell phone.
Benny
"It's a great feeling to be dealing with material which is better than yourself, that you know you can never live up to."
-- Orson Welles
"It's a great feeling to be dealing with material which is better than yourself, that you know you can never live up to."
-- Orson Welles
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Love how the cameras recorded frame rate can't keep up with Yorgui and Denis' tempo.
Must have been a wonderful show. I hope more videos crop up.
My first wish is to even get a change to play one of those.....
Dean
http://www.djangobooks.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=9597&p=49796&hilit=yorgui#p49796
Scan down to where it says "and here are tunes from the concert:"
My favorite: Cry Me a River
"It's a great feeling to be dealing with material which is better than yourself, that you know you can never live up to."
-- Orson Welles
For an extraordinary guitar, no ordinary case will do!
From the BAM Website:
http://www.bamcases.com/new/english/string/guitar.php?recordID=24
"It's a great feeling to be dealing with material which is better than yourself, that you know you can never live up to."
-- Orson Welles
"It's a great feeling to be dealing with material which is better than yourself, that you know you can never live up to."
-- Orson Welles
Alex
"It's a great feeling to be dealing with material which is better than yourself, that you know you can never live up to."
-- Orson Welles