• Registered: 2008-08-14
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Topic: National Style 0 (1930's - Current)

With the National Style O guitars being resonators mostly and knowing that tone/sound is all what sounds good to the players ear would anyone on here buy/play one of these guitars as there main guitar to not actually play slide on?

http://www.catfishkeith.com/styleo14-fret.jpg - Nice example.

I am just wondering if anyone has played the guitar a lot in an "Open" style I guess....

Thanks....

  • tandm3
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  • Registered: 2006-03-04
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Re: National Style 0 (1930's - Current)

I've got a Style O guitar but it is not a National.   I can easily play a full set on it, but I would never consider it for my main guitar.  I alternate between Open E and Open G tuning on this guitar.  I refuse to play it in Standard E. Thats not what it was designed for.  I usually keep two guitars tuned in open tunings strictly for slide and finger picking variations. Keeping one of these guitars as the "main" guitar seems to me to be impossible.  Again, I say for me..  There are players out there that only do what you are saying and some of them are phenomenal. For instance, Slim Fatz and John Hammond Jr. Look them up on Youtube.

Now available in 5G !