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| How come nobody seems to own one of these? Is there a reason noone writes about them? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Longhorn? As in Danelectro longhorn? |
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Location: NJ | u mean long neck?
I had several dano longhorns in the day. kinda cool guitars. |
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| Yeah.....LONGNECK.
Can we start again? |
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Location: Converse, Texas | Longhorns... I've heard of them. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | They are out there. One on eBay right now.
They are a specialized flavor of Ovation. They still outnumber the Mandocellos 4/1.
It's an odd part of the brain that gets excited about baritones! |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | Hizz...
Longhorns... I've heard of them
...shouldn't that be "I've herd of them" :rolleyes: |
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Location: Converse, Texas | Yeah... the "herd" is in the Rose Bowl. |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | What A great Christmas Gift!! Go Longhorns!!! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | OK, back to the question. Longnecks are great. I wanted to call the the D guitar so they wouldn't be confused with a Budweiser but I guess that doesn't happen in Texas anyway.
Picture a regular guitar with a neck that joins the body at the 12th fret so the bridge is further back in the top=better sound. Now add two frets below the nut and you get like a 28"+ scale and to keep the string tension the same tune down 2 steps to D. Want a regular guitar? capo at the second fret.
They weren't overly popular. Maybe it's too advanced a concept for the public, maybe it's designed because it could be but nobody asked for it, maybe it's because the order taker(sales) force didn't get asked for one so they never sold any, maybe the world thinks they suck eggs, who knows.
I think it's a great concept (then again I would). It is a specialty guitar, no question. |
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Location: NJ | It's ANOTHER one on my "List". . . .
". . . WUNNA . . . these DAYS . . . . ." |
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Location: Cherry Hill, NJ | Where on e-bay, I can't find it.
Tommy |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Right Here Y'all:
Longneck
Seller is an OFCer - bid high and often! |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | MWoody
That is nice!! Now I have another form of GAS adding to my 12 string therapy failures. It's a 14 fret 28 inch therapy that is doomed from the start. I want it!! I want it!! I am going to hold my breath until my mommy buys me one. |
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| Thanks for the replies. I've never actually seen a LongNECK (will I ever live that down?), but I played a custom built baritone by an English luthier 3 or 4 years ago and it was an absolutely fabulous sound. It was too expensive, but the LongNECK lists a lot cheaper, hence the question.
The Metheny baritone album shows what can be done with one - though I think that the Nashville tuning could have been used more sparingly.
Compared to a regular guitar it was like playing a grand piano - the sheer power, not to mention the vibrations through the back (you could get your rocks off in all sorts of ways with an all wood baritone), is quite amazing. |
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Location: The Shop | I dont know who came up with the name Longneck, but Bill we still call them D scale in the shop.Hence the model # DS768. |
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Location: Tennessee | If I could venture a guess, I'd think the name was born in a Texas bar where they serve the beer in funny bottles. Hmmmm ... where did that former president get all his cowboy boots? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Actually the first pair of boots were Dan Posts and came from Boston. The name longneck came from Dave Bergstrom, the ovation product mgr at the time. I don't really recall what gave him the idea, could have been a long neck bud. I had stopped lifting those by then so I wouldn't have thought of it.
The idea for the guitar came from watching Gordon Giltrap play at a Frankfort music fair booth and taking a small bodied guitar and tune it way down for an open tuning in C with a low B. The strings just flapped all over the place, sounded terrible. As always happens, the light bulb came on and I thought, there has to be a better way and one discussion with DJ lead to another and before you know it there was an Adamas proto. We made maybe a dozen grafite ones and used wood for production(read lower retail price). I'm not sure how many would up getting made, I'd guess maybe 100. There's a Ko-reehan version too I'm told. |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | Ko-reehan version?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=2385&item=3768395192&rd=1 |
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