Zager Guitars

[KenH]

EVERYONE who loves American guitar appreciates Johnny Cash.

I remember several years ago watching a replay of Johnny Cash performing at a Billy Graham Crusade and he was talking and then did a song. He never once looked down at his guitar the whole time. That’s how familiar he was with the instrument.

 

[HeirofSalvation]

I HATE this guy....This guitar work is beautiful.

 

[HeirofSalvation]

Again...
I hate these men, and their skills...
It's SO BEAUTIFUL.

I think music like this glorifies God.

Our God is a God of beauty and he is beautiful.
It honors him when we reflect beauty as his image-bearers.
Musicians can do that!!

 

[John of Japan]

There are lots of beginner courses so I am going to stick to the Krenz course and when I finish it, then I figure the world will be my oyster and I can go foraging for whatever I want to learn. By the way, over the years I have purchased this stack of additional DVDs - so I don’t think I will run out of stuff to learn.

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I see you major on bluegrass. Have you ever heard the Petersen Family? The son is pretty good on guitar, and they place some Christian stuff. Here is their channel: The Petersen Family

 

[John of Japan]

EVERYONE who loves American guitar appreciates Johnny Cash.
I'm 40 years removed from his generation (at least) and a few decades from yours (I'm a gen-xer)
Johnny Cash was the real deal, his method and style doesn't go away.
Good music is good music.
Every generation can appreciate good music. That's why I love music, and also good art.

It's also the reason that Peter Paul Reubens, Jacques Louis David and Rembrandt are meaningful and Jackson Pollock is a poseur and cad.

There is an objective reality to that which is beautiful. (I actually believe that that is a Theologically significant point.) Those who appreciate real artistry, be it musical, architectural, in paintings, or in sculpture appreciate good art (or music) and it is timeless.....The generation which crafted it is irrelevant. Beauty, in all it's forms, is an attribute of, and gift of God, and only by drawing closer to Him can we appreciate genuine beauty.

The arts, in all forms, either celebrate his beauty, or the beauty of the creation he made. There's a Theological significance to the arts in all their forms, music included.

Well said. In his little book Art and the Bible, Francis Schaeffer says much the same. He makes the point that when humans produce beautiful art, it is an expression of the image of God.

Of course, there is dangerous beauty also, considering that Satan appears as a beautiful angel.

 

[KenH]

I see you major on bluegrass.

Yes. I host an online bluegrass radio show on Saturday mornings at www.worldwidebluegrass.com. I had not heard of the Petersen Family. I will check them out. Thanks.

 

[KenH]

I HATE this guy....This guitar work is beautiful.

Wow! So beautiful. At this point, I can't even conceive of playing guitar like that.

 

[HeirofSalvation]

Wow! So beautiful. At this point, I can't even conceive of playing guitar like that.

I know, and he's so clean!
But, in theory, what he's doing isn't that hard, if we understand music theory well enough.
He's just playing what works in a certain key.
I think in a coupla' years we could do it.....if we studied theory enough!

Truly, though....I really hope to see you crush some Greensleeves come Christmas.
Best of luck as we both learn!

 

[KenH]

est of luck as we both learn!

Good luck to you as well.

Do you have any experience comparing the OM body size and/or the Concert size to the dreadnought size?

 

[HeirofSalvation]

Good luck to you as well.

Do you have any experience comparing the OM body size and/or the Concert size to the dreadnought size?

Only in that I've played both.
Some of the OM's are so thick, they're harder to play than a dreadnought IMO, and I don't have short arms. But I'm sure there are comfy models out there. If you're chickin' pickin' you'd probably do well with an OM or concert.

 

[John of Japan]

Ha! Actually, he had an old guitar in the house while I was growing up, but no one ever played it. I actually have a songbook for guitar that he owned, probably going back to the 1930's. So he must have tried playing guitar when he was young. He wrote his songs playing the piano with two fingers, then his son-in-law would do the arrangements. The guitar was something like this Gretsch archtop: Gretsch G9555 New Yorker Archtop - Semi-gloss Vintage Sunburst

And now, shocking news: John R. Rice liked old time country music (not the new rock type stuff, since he had grown up as a Texas cowboy. In the John R. Rice Papers at Southwestern Seminary is a letter saying he liked Johnny Cash (gasp!).

I took some photos of the old guitar book Granddad had which I will post. I think it's from around 1910. Interestingly enough, they didn't use those great chord diagrams we have to help us learn. Check it out!

 

[KenH]

Cutaway vs. Non-Cutaway: Does It Affect the Sound?

The Non-Cutaway sounds fuller to me.

 

[John of Japan]

Cutaway vs. Non-Cutaway: Does It Affect the Sound?

The Non-Cutaway sounds fuller to me.

I prefer the non-cutaway too. I almost never use those really high notes the cutaway is for anyway.

 

[HeirofSalvation]

Cutaway vs. Non-Cutaway: Does It Affect the Sound?

The Non-Cutaway sounds fuller to me.

Ditto here. I can see the need if you’re shredding on a Stratocaster. But I think the non-cutaway is clearly fuller sounding too. The cutaway is also brighter at the top end, which is nice on some sounds, and as JOJ said, I rarely see a dreadnought playing those notes anyway. You’ll note (pun intended) that Tony never even went below the twelfth fret here. Why would you.