{"id":365,"date":"2011-04-25T13:03:45","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T18:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/?p=365"},"modified":"2013-12-31T03:23:35","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T03:23:35","slug":"resonator-style-acoustic-guitars-for-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/resonator-style-acoustic-guitars-for-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Resonator Style Acoustic Guitars For Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Personally, I&#8217;ve been on a hunt for just the right resonator style guitar now for a few months. I seem to have a lot of trouble finding the right balance of tone, feel, and look&#8230; which is really the same problem we all encounter with any new instrument purchase.<\/p>\n<p>If you play blues, and particularly acoustic blues, and like to use a slide, there&#8217;s such a great vibe associated with resonator style guitars. So I&#8217;ve been doing some research and trying some out.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, in my travels I stumbled upon a couple of things of great interest and value. The first is a youtube video by KeniLeeBurgess on how to choose a resonator guitar and bottleneck slide for blues:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aX2ZDDr7Hsc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But as cool as that is, the electric has always been my &#8220;go to&#8221; guitar. So maybe I should do something like what this guy Andy Solloway does with Telecasters (read the original version of this at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk\/news\/8991215.Blues_resonate_for_guitar_maker_Andy\/\">http:\/\/www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk\/news\/8991215.Blues_resonate_for_guitar_maker_Andy\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk\/resources\/images\/1634002\/?type=display\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" \/>The 46-year-old, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk\/search\/?search=Skipton\">Skipton<\/a>,  takes standard electric guitars and converts them by adding steel  plates and sound cones to produce hybrids that give a magical   metallic sound.<\/p>\n<p>Famous as the sound of Old Blues, resonators were played by greats  such as Son House and Muddy Waters, who used their hall-filling volume  in times when electric guitars were beyond their pockets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were invented in America and were most popular in the 1920s in  the days before amplification,\u201d said Mr Solloway, who works part-time at  Craven College, Skipton, as an art and media   technician.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Solloway discovered the blues after starting out as a teenage punk  guitarist, and now gigs with local soul covers band The Zealots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI use one of my guitars on stage and nothing beats getting up there  and using it in anger. I love playing slide on it and it brings a really  different sound that blends well with everything,\u201d said   Mr Solloway.<\/p>\n<p>He described the painstaking process of turning a standard Telecaster copy into one of his instruments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll take a quality full-bodied Tele, like a Squire for example, then  rout it out to take a metal sound cone and then fit whatever pick-ups  the customer wants. The Tele is the best guitar ever   made in my opinion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His recipe is proving a success, with some 50 of his Sollophonic  guitars sold in the last two years to resonator fans in the US and  Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Andy can be contacted via his website at sollophonicguitars.co.uk<\/p>\n<p>Definitely something to think about&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personally, I&#8217;ve been on a hunt for just the right resonator style guitar now for a few months. I seem to have a lot of trouble finding the right balance of tone, feel, and look&#8230; which is really the same problem we all encounter with any new instrument purchase. If you play blues, and particularly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5731,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/5731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}