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I had to look up "trestle". If I understand the tricone design correctly I'd compare the cones themselves to trestle supports on which the t-bar rests. Probably doesn't make a lot of difference for the rest of your explanation.
I'm guessing you don't do a lot of palm muting if you never noticed the handrest, at least not to muffle (play pizzicato; mute on the saddle) rather than just stop notes (mute on the strings). The handrest of my biscuit reso only goes on when the guitar goes into its gigbag.
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You’re obviously right - there’s no way to palm mute with a guard over the saddle. I’ve always muted with a combination of meticulous picking (I.e. being very careful not to strike unwanted strings) plus right hand fingers and my left index &/or middle finger resting on the strings behind the slide (which I use on ring finger). This keeps unwanted strings from sounding. But it falls short of proper palm muting, which I do miss for a thunky bass line on Piedmont etc.
I simply can’t get the full effect of palm muting when playing it conventionally. I play slide in standard tuning on my solid bodies, but I usually use an open G tuning on resonator.
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From what I understand that's as much to mute unplayed strings as to keep the string section on the wrong side of the slide from sounding.
Would palm muting on a t-bar saddle even work? FWIW, I've noticed it requires a more conscious effort with a floating archtop saddle, though that may be for different reasons (the saddle on a biscuit cone is also floating in a sense).
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I had a National style O with a biscuit pickup in it for many years, and I loved the amplified tone (as well as the palm trees”. I bought the tricone new, and I’ve never gotten around to installing a “proper” pickup system in it. I wedge a small high quality wireless lapel mic with a round foam pop shield on it into one of the holes in the top and run its thin cable to the little transmitter hanging from the end pin. The sound quality is excellent.
Inserting two mics on opposite sides or ends and running them in true stereo gives a huge sound that’s really beautiful. A resonator guitar is well suited to a wide variety of music - it’s not just for your father’s blues. It makes me aspire to be the Resonator Robert Randolph
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You probably relate to the soundtrack of Paris, Texas. For me Cooder is more "blues-based ecclectic Americana", from the Rising Sons with Taj Mahal and Beefheart's Safe As Milk over his solo oeuvre to the more "world" oriented stuff with Ali Farka Toure and the Buena Vista Social Club.
Your video reminds me more of the work of Daniel Lanois as well solo as well as a producer.
It sounds nice anyway.
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I once was called as a sideman to an all acoustic gig (no amplification was allowed at this venue). I brought a Gypsy guitar and the bandleader had an all metal resonator (I don't remember what brand, all I could see was that it had a round neck and, IIRC, 14 frets clear of the body). He could be heard loud and clear, while I could barely be heard over the drummer. I do not like the tone of a resonator guitar, but from a practical point of view, they certainly have their place.
That said I will stick with the oval hole Gypsy guitar. I'd rather be Django than Oscar Aleman.
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Stuff like the first clip with Buckwheat Zydeco is what enters my mind first when thinking of Ry Cooder -- though accordion-wise I always associate him with Flaco Jiminez. I wasn't aware that he has done so much soundtrack work.
I doubt that those guitars guarantee the "Cooder sound" without hours and hours of listening to a ton of records of blues and other music.
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No apologies necessary (whaaaat ^^)
Lou Harrison: American Musical Maverick: A Musical Garden
(Justin Johnson used to sell a Mule Mavis as a signature guitar, now sold out I think. Personally I prefer the looks of the Resolectric but have no use for either )
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