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Even modern heavier built instrument can express thunk, I get plenty of it even unplugged on the Tal.
Laminated maple combined with medium flats and its 25.5 scale seems to emphase the faster decay and bluntness of Tal's thunk.
Thunk from a 175 is different, looser feel on the bass string less assertive.
I never could achieve anything close to that with a modified Emperor Regent even with 15-56 (the Tal has Swing 12-50)
Difference of wood and construction as a huge incidence on the thunkness!
A Tal Farlow in action from DutchBopper, raw and percussive just as I dig it :
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01-31-2018 01:23 PM
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and what about pick, string gauge and recording microphone?
do they take part to the thunk equation?
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what is the opposite of thunk? I think I like the opposite of thunk . Thank goodness I got that out there.
Will
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02-14-2018, 06:03 AM #29Dutchbopper GuestOriginally Posted by gianluca
DB
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02-14-2018, 06:05 AM #30Dutchbopper GuestOriginally Posted by WillMbCdn5
DB
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Heavy rest stroke picking with equipment choices noted above?
If so, then I as a player of 175 with heavyish flatwounds and rest stroke technique should be able to conjure the thunk but to honest I’ve never listened out for that, and not sure if do.
When playing a guitar with flats I notice a distinct clank and lack of sustain.
Could it be that the clank is cousin to the thunk? I think of Jimmy Raney as being a clanker.
Probably my ideas are stupid, but maybe they are of some interest to someone.
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Originally Posted by Dutchbopper
Will
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That's funny, I often describe player's wimpy tones as "plinkety-plink". Somewhere in between can still be OK, so maybe I'm a "plunker"...
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02-15-2018, 07:38 AM #34Dutchbopper GuestOriginally Posted by WillMbCdn5
And there seems to be clank but I am still figuring out what that is.
DB
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Originally Posted by Dutchbopper
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Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
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02-15-2018, 10:41 AM #37Dutchbopper GuestOriginally Posted by Boston Joe
Of course we all have our own interpretation of what thunk is.
DB
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Originally Posted by Dutchbopper
And this is more from a playing perspective than a listening perspective. When I've taken my archtop to jam sessions, etc, I find the thunk to be kind of overpowering and distracting. On records and whatnot, it doesn't really bother me.
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from Nowhere.
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The earliest instance I have found in print is in a 1966 review of Julian Bream in Life magazine. Carter Harman writes, 'In this tight continuum, Bream is able to project a whole spectrum of tone-color variations, from a very quaint, pastel-tinted thunk, produced by his fingerprints, to a brassy twang, produced by his nails; his guitar can sound like a harp, a harpsichord or even a piano.'
Viva the no-voltage guitar!
Carter Harman
Life
Vol 61, No 19, November 4, 1966, page 12
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First 5 seconds, that’s the most clear example of thunk I know of.
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" Mary, you got thunk" " I hate thunk". Lou Grant.
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"Thunk" is the sound you hear when you drop an archtop on a carpet floor.
Tony
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I dunno, still tryin' to figure that one out. Maybe percussive would be more apt.
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