|
Post by billhammond on Nov 28, 2006 20:29:17 GMT -5
For my 1,000th SoundHole post, I should like to play you a tune, if I know it. I am sitting here with the Larrivee OMV-03 SP (we still don't know what that stands for -- Salt Peter?) that Marty set up to play EZ-ly and he saddle-boned it (blush) and strung it up with Pearse 80/20 lights, even subbing out the .012 top string with an .013 as I prefer. I have it in my lap here at home and it plays great and sounds really wonderful and I am getting no allergic reactions other than having a strange craving for fries drenched in gravy with a side order of thick smoked bacon.
What is that all about?
I think this might be the guitar I am looking for to join the Goodall in the Lonely Corner of my living room.
It does everything with grace and class and no bombast -- it is sweet and warm and balanced and just complex enough to be interesting and just fundamental enough to be honest. I have tried it in several tunings and I have flat-picked it fast and slow and fingerpicked it mostly, and it hangs right in there. It is also very comfortable and has a nice case with only three latches, and people, how many do we need?
About the only adjustment I have had to make in my playing is to recognize and accept that it's maybe 20 percent less loud than the Goodall and that I should not try to compensate for that by playing harder -- I just need to listen a little better and enjoy its more polite voice.
Thanks, Marty, for the great set-up, and I promise to hang onto this one longer than I did that Whats-its-name guitar I got at that place in St. Paul whose name I cannot recall, either.
|
|
|
Post by TDR on Nov 28, 2006 21:04:36 GMT -5
How bout a nice "Angie"?
Or "Busted" or "Windy and Warm"
Or just go ahead and riff on Doc or Tony Rice or Sam Bush or Django or sumpthin.
And gongrats on bustin 1,000. You is twice the man I yam.
|
|
|
Post by j on Nov 28, 2006 21:07:01 GMT -5
FREEBIRD!
|
|
|
Post by billhammond on Nov 28, 2006 21:10:13 GMT -5
"Anji" sounds good. I dunno "Windy and Warm," although MFever has a good start on that puppy. I just played "Little Martha" and it sounded sweet!
J, how about the Firebird Suite instead of Freebird, which I don't know?
In fact, I'll try the Firebird Trans Am Suite!
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2006 21:12:37 GMT -5
Hector the Hero.
|
|
|
Post by j on Nov 28, 2006 21:17:51 GMT -5
Stravinsky sounds cool. Do you play the Yamashita arrangement, Bill?
|
|
|
Post by millring on Nov 28, 2006 21:18:13 GMT -5
Daddy's Baby
|
|
|
Post by billhammond on Nov 28, 2006 21:21:43 GMT -5
Stravinsky sounds cool. Do you play the Yamashita arrangement, Bill? Um, I, uh, that is, um, like, I play the Bullashita arrangement! Yeah, that's it.
|
|
|
Post by Tim Alexander (fmrly. Camalex) on Nov 28, 2006 21:25:02 GMT -5
BTW Bill -- I think SP stands for sapele -- as in not a. mahogany which is standard for OM-03 models.
|
|
|
Post by j on Nov 28, 2006 21:27:28 GMT -5
I thought SP stood for spelling
|
|
|
Post by Tim Alexander (fmrly. Camalex) on Nov 28, 2006 21:30:04 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure it's sapele -- but in Bill's honor SP could stand for spelling.
Do you have electronic in this new guitar -- if so what?
|
|
|
Post by TDR on Nov 28, 2006 21:30:09 GMT -5
I thought it stands for "super picker".
|
|
|
Post by billhammond on Nov 28, 2006 21:31:25 GMT -5
"Daddy's Baby" sounds boffo, John!
Renee, retuning to C for "Hector" -- please stand by.
Tim, why would it take SP to spell "sapele"-- freaking Canuck oddballs!
|
|
|
Post by timfarney on Nov 28, 2006 21:36:28 GMT -5
Is it the Larry or the 1,000 posts that made you so bold?
Tim
|
|
|
Post by Tim Alexander (fmrly. Camalex) on Nov 28, 2006 21:36:59 GMT -5
OMV-03 SP isn't listed on the website and it seems I saw this at the Larrivee forum a while back -- R stands for roswood and all O3 series are mahogany unless otherwise noted with an R -- I have to beleive this is sapele. Does it have a "striping" in the grain or does the back/sides have a flate even grain, with no striping? Striping to my eye almost always indicates sapele instead of mahogany.
It's possibvle that the OMV-03 (cutaway_ is a special production run and thus the SP could stand for this -- but I seem to have read it somewhere before.
|
|
|
Post by billhammond on Nov 28, 2006 21:50:06 GMT -5
OMV-03 SP isn't listed on the website and it seems I saw this at the Larrivee forum a while back -- R stands for roswood and all O3 series are mahogany unless otherwise noted with an R -- I have to beleive this is sapele. Does it have a "striping" in the grain or does the back/sides have a flate even grain, with no striping? Striping to my eye almost always indicates sapele instead of mahogany. It's possibvle that the OMV-03 (cutaway_ is a special production run and thus the SP could stand for this -- but I seem to have read it somewhere before. Seriously, Tim, I think it is sapele and that is fine. My Taylor was sapele and I loved it. Thanks for the insights.
|
|
|
Post by Village Idiot on Nov 28, 2006 22:01:08 GMT -5
Congratulations on 1,000 posts, Bill. This used to be a weekly event on TTT. What the hell took so long?
|
|
|
Post by billhammond on Nov 28, 2006 22:03:36 GMT -5
Congratulations on 1,000 posts, Bill. This used to be a weekly event on TTT. What the hell took so long? Well, for one thing, I quit drinking and Sekh quit arguing! I guess that is two things. < Just kidding, Your Felinityness >
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2006 22:10:10 GMT -5
I haven't heard Little Martha in a very long time, so if you want to play a rerun......
|
|
|
Post by billhammond on Nov 28, 2006 22:13:28 GMT -5
Sure, Tom, I'll capo it up and play it in E this time.
No extra charge.
I just played everything I know in Orkney tuning and it sounds like this guitar was made for it!
|
|