As far as (electric) jazz guitar, it seems the problem with open strings is in the way they pop out with overtones and brightness in those running passages that never end. I am rather partial to the pre-electric chord melody style of Dick McDonough, Carl Kress and George Van Eps. Van Eps effectively transferred his style to electric but he invented a damper attached to the peghead and that barely touched the strings just beyond the business end of the nut. This device cancelled out those nasty open-string overtones on electrified guitars. RA > Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 17:04:17 -0700 > To: davidvanooi...@gmail.com > CC: Lute@cs.dartmouth.edu > From: dwinh...@lmi.net > Subject: [LUTE] Re: Capo use on early instruments > > Oh yes, Joe Pass hitting an open string would instantly have the whole > crowd snoring. And don't ask what would happen if Django or Jimi Hendrix > did such a crazy stunt! > > Dan > > On 9/25/2013 2:50 PM, David van Ooijen wrote: > > On 25 September 2013 23:43, Geoff Gaherty <[1]ge...@gaherty.ca> wrote: > > > > On 25/09/13 3:34 PM, Dan Winheld wrote: > > > > Polar opposite to Jazz electric guitarists, who seemed to me to > > avoid > > open strings as much as possible. > > > > Joe Pass in one of his video lessons gives the advice to avoid keys > > with too many many open strings: all those droning (bass) strings will > > make the audience sleepy. > > David > > > > -- > > > > References > > > > 1. mailto:ge...@gaherty.ca > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > >
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