Sorry if this has already been posted, but I just flicked through the latest issue of Guitarist magazine and.........
Michael Messer has launched a new range of resonator guitars. From what I gather, their starting retail is £475 and will be available from Michael's site and some specialist retailers from now (April 2008). Guitarist mag say they'll be reviewing one soon. the webiste for Messer is http://www.michaelmesser.co.uk
Since every music shop I've ever been to only has, at best, the budget £150 resonators, I figured this might be of use to some board members. I'm waaayyyyy too skint right now, but I'd sure love a resonator that doesn't suck/fall apart within two weeks, so if I do save the cash, I'll be giving these some serious consideration.
hth
pretty kewl. that is one committed musician. he teams up with reso makers and gets his name on the guitar.
smart move, as I hear that resonators are hard to come by overseas. they grow on trees here in the states. right next to the pedal steel guitar bushes. those are rare overseas too.
I am discovering I need a round neck reso. I have a squareneck, but finger style reso is in my head.
they can be very hard to come by, dogbite. and I've never even seen a lap steel in a shop before. :cry:
this is about the full range of bluegrass stuff we can get in the UK - http://www.curlymusic.co.uk/index.pl?browse=categories&id=249
An old friend of my mum's played slide guitar a LOT. He had a genuine dobro that he got somewhere around the time he toured the states with Rod Stewart (he played the slide on Stewart's acoustic version of Amazing Grace, if I recall correctly). Years back, someone stole it. He was devastated, sicne you couldn't get top quality guitars like that here, and he'd had it a while by then so he was attached to that one, it had been all over the world with him, his main banjo. Got quite depressed over it for a bit. When he passed a couple of years ago, I was in uni. Wish I'd been around though, as I would have loved to inherit his later resonator. Not in a greedy way (though I'd have cherished it), I just really can't stand the thought of it e.g. ending up in a pawn shop or being bought for some 10 year old kid with no appreciation of the history of guitars and winding up in a bin. Or worse, covered in Panic At The Disco stickers.
