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Location: Midland, MI | So, after spending some quality time with the Hamer (gee, have I extolled the virtues of Alpep loud and long enough yet?) I picked up the trusty Elite. The one with the big, fat, crudded up 12s on it.
Anyone else find whole step bends on the D string at, oh, say the eighth fret a workout? Feh, my fingertips hurt. =( |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | I find I hardly ever do string-bends on a twelve...the exertion required being beyond what I normally regard as the "fun" level, and also, you can never bend two strings together up to the same note at the same time. ;)
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Location: SoCal | I think the 12 reference was to the gauge of strings on his acoustic. 12's would indicate light guage strings. Try that bend on 13's (mediums)! |
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Location: NC | Usually do bends on the 7th and 5th frets.........have some riff exercises for it. Never really thought about it but will go bend a few.
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | The heaviest bends I do start at the elbow and extend up until the drink I am holding hits my lips! :D :D :D
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | I met some wierd looking divers in some Ocean Beach bars in San Diego in the 60's where I first encountered Ovations. The used to float out from La Jolla on a round back using it like a surf board and dive for abalone, they got their bends on all strings when they surfaced too fast, they used bends like some people use acid, and it left them as disjointed as a tank interior painter who used organic paint without a respirator (I met one of those here in NM when we had to reline some tanks at the White Sands Missile Range Laser site, and he owned the company, he'd climb through the manhole into the tank, paint away, and come out jabbering like a phsyco on speed.).
Bailey (Ahhnold bends all 12 strings by grabbing the neck and cracking it like a whip) :p :D |
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Location: Midland, MI | You guys crack me up. And yes, I meant .012 gauge strings and I know they're light, but they're heavier than the 10s that are on my electrics (which I can bend past whole steps without problems). I was just surprised at how stiff the 12s are on the Elite, compared to the 10s on the Hamer or the [Strato,Tele]copy.
Abaloney divers, eh, Bailey? Interesting...is there good bread in that? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | They're not so bad, if you got to bend them you just do it. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | cruster
In the 60's diving for abalone off the coast of La Jolla, CA was a great sport and the eating was good if you knew how to prepare it (had to be beat like a cube steak). I think they outlawed the diving later, but I am sure that some of the San Diego built guitars had abalone shell inlays from the leftover shells from a beach party feast on seafood like maybe the early Taylors and Deering and Stelling banjos. Abalone was a gourmet dish in some world famous San Diego restaurants as well.
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Location: Midland, MI | Oddly, Bailey, I was expecting a dissertation on the merits of free range abalone.
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | cruster
Free range abalone, absolutely, the environmentals did everything possible to stop abalone diving as they sat in the great Lajolla restaurants and dined on abalone. |
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Whole step bends on 12s