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Post by coachdoc on Mar 2, 2024 16:11:41 GMT -5
Is there any way to tame my tubby sounding Yamaha dread? It’s got fine intonation and plays easily and cleanly but it sounds quite tubby, looks great too. It’s an ‘almost’ guitar. So close yet so far.
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Post by howard lee on Mar 2, 2024 16:20:13 GMT -5
From what material do you think the saddle is made? If it isn't bone, a bone upgrade and fresh setup might make it sound better. Just speculating.
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Post by coachdoc on Mar 2, 2024 16:22:12 GMT -5
Probably plastic. Sounds like a good idea to try bone.
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Post by Marty on Mar 2, 2024 16:25:22 GMT -5
From what material do you think the saddle is made? If it isn't bone, a bone upgrade and fresh setup might make it sound better. Just speculating. Give that man a CIGAR! Bone saddle and nut. Also tap the back of the guitar to check for loose back braces. A loose back brace will make a guitar bass heavy and tubby sounding. |
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Mar 2, 2024 16:52:15 GMT -5
Or, you could trade it in for a Collings.
Mike
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Post by Marshall on Mar 2, 2024 18:39:09 GMT -5
You’d have to trade in 6 or 7 for a Collings.  |
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Post by coachdoc on Mar 2, 2024 20:51:23 GMT -5
And trading the Yammy for the Collings would be lov d by me but vetoed by the CFO. My ability to act on GAS is severely limited these days.
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Post by Marshall on Mar 2, 2024 21:01:06 GMT -5
Put a sock n it.
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Post by drlj on Mar 2, 2024 21:10:20 GMT -5
Tubby Yamaha was one of the lesser known sidekicks of Gene Autry. He appeared in 37 Western serial episodes with Gene in the 1930s. He wore an over sized black felt hat and his signature line with Autry was “Holy Hump Day, Gene! What we gonna do?”
He never meshed with Gene’s fans and he was eventually let go.
He opened an ice cream shop on Ventura called Tubby’s Cone City and never acted again.
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Post by millring on Mar 2, 2024 21:10:59 GMT -5
Maybe tubby is a good thing. Bright ain't everything. I should know. I mean, I might know if I were bright enough. I guess I just described irony.
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Mar 2, 2024 21:18:39 GMT -5
I’m kinda tubby. I’d like it if my nickname was Slim, but, well, you know.
Mike
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Post by billhammond on Mar 2, 2024 21:43:19 GMT -5
I’m kinda tubby. I’d like it if my nickname was Slim, but, well, you know. Mike I guess my most accurate blues name would be Not Blind Picky Willy. |
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Post by RickW on Mar 4, 2024 18:40:34 GMT -5
Check and make sure the ball ends of your strings are secure against the bridge plate as well. Probably okay, but had a problem with one of mine where the ball end was shoved right off, and tubby was a polite way to describe it.
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