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Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
I used the JD Jazz III and still like them quite a bit, but just keep going back to these pro plecs.
But if I'm playing bluegrass on a flattop, then I need a larger, thinner (1mm) pic. (haven't been doing that much anymore though).
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06-01-2014 03:10 PM
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Originally Posted by monk
Rodney Jones is the only guy out there who I know of who does the Benson technique with a heavy pick. If you look up the YouTube clip of he and JC Stylles trading blues choruses, you'll hear that Jones' tone is much softer.
A lot of the classic guys that we think of as having the "traditional" jazz tone were using thinner picks, too. I think it's only in the last 3 decades that "heavy pick and heavy strings" became the typical jazz mantra.
I wonder what kind of plectrum somebody like Eddie Lang was using on those old guitars. He's got super heavy strings, and had to project acoustically. I'm guessing something big, like a Wegen, but not sure.
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Lang and most other players of that era used real tortoise shell picks. Shell picks had the advantage of being extremely stiff and denser so a thin pick was proportionately stiffer than a celluloid pick of the same dimensions.
Celluloid picks were definitely available in the late 30s as can be seen in advertisements in old magazines and songbooks. Interestingly, the Fender 351 pick is the same size and shape as the pick marketed by Nick Lucas.
For years afterward, guitarists would ask for and refer to Nick Lucas picks the way we do Fender picks. When I began playing in the mid-1960s, I remember older players asking for Nick Lucas picks at the music store where I worked.
Django Reinhardt was known to prefer the bone buttons from jackets and trousers as a pick.
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Originally Posted by ecj
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Originally Posted by monk
This is exactly my thinking. Especially "control and relaxation".
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Originally Posted by ecj
I'm of the opinion that flatwounds work best with medium picks - that 50's combination of laminate archtop, flats and medium picks just 'feels right' to me. Whereas it's a more modern thing to use roundwounds with something like a pro-plec. Different strokes.
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I've been using Pickboy Classic cellulose picks for some time now.
They're thin at 1.0mm but very stiff and last a reasonable amount of time. They're basically a standard 351 shape.
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