Making do with the instrument you have

[Greg Vincent]

I was in Korea for three months and only had access to my brother-in-law’s lousy bent-neck acoustic, so… I grabbed a D-cell and made do.

https://youtube.com/shorts/7BRRQSLlan4?feature=shared

[Donny Hinson]

Yep, that's how it all began!

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[Ian Rae]

Great sound, Greg. Now for a lengthy thread discussing the tonal characteristics of different brands of battery...

[GaryL]

Ian, you nailed it!

[Lee Baucum]

Great sound, Greg. Now for a lengthy thread discussing the tonal characteristics of different brands of battery...

Hmm. That discussion could be quite electrifying.

[Dave Hopping]

We ought also to examine the tonal nuances generated by the varying amount of charge left on said dry-cell batteries.

[Ken Pippus]

Black batteries sound better.

[Dan Kelly]

Too bad, before watching this video, I just gave away all my dead batteries - free of charge!

That one is so bad I should be convicted of battery. I just haven't been charged.

This could be a positively energizing thread!

[Dave Hopping]

Dan-
Watch out they don't put you in the acoustic chair!

[Greg Vincent]

You fellas are too much!

[Dale Rottacker]

When I was a wee lad, my Dad had an old "Lone Ranger" guitar he got for hoeing a potato field when he was 9, (1939) that had a raised nut on it ... I remember taking a butter knife to when I was maybe 6 trying to play it. I wasn't NEAR as talented as Greg.

[Rick Kornacker]

Hey all! Another perspective. During my fortunate career playing steel in Nashville I've owned and played most of the cutting-edge steels as they improved over the years. Recently I've had to sell off most of my precious steel-related gear to facilitate an illness and finances. Just recently acquired a nice Magnum SD-10, not as fancy as most of the other guitars I've owned, but otherwise, checks all the boxes. My point...if you have a sufficient instrument and the know-how to play it you will be just fine! Would you agree? Regards,RK

[Cartwright Thompson]

Amen Rick. I’ll bet Buddy would have sounded wonderful on a Maverick

[Greg Vincent]

This is the oddity I was borrowing over in Korea: a dreadnaught body with a strange, dark stain, a metal pickguard, a bent neck (complete with misaligned fret-marker dots!), all topped-off with an Ovation-style headstock. I’ve never seen such a thing. We called it The Platypus.