The Blue Guitars: Martin Taylor plays the Blue Bossa on them all

[AndyV]

A cornucopia of visual and aural delights:

[AndyV]

It surprised me how much they were all in more or less the same sonic ballpark with only a few having a sound that I would describe as "throaty."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE-fmZYaZLE

[ccroft]

Interesting! There's deff some I didn't like as much as others, but there's so many I can't remember which.

(it's not like I'm in the market for one...)

[Oscar67]

Incredible playing by Martin! Sound-wise the Gibson and the Benedetto stood out for me.

[dot75]

The green ones shouldn't count...

[Cunamara]

Then eventually none of them will count. The blue dye is unstable and changes to green over time.

[bediles]

There's so much Blue Bossa on the forms these days! Perhaps too much

[dot75]

Then eventually none of them will count. The blue dye is unstable and changes to green over time.

This is why I bought a red guitar....

Also - is this true ? why can't you dye wood blue ?

[wintermoon]

This is why I bought a red guitar....

Also - is this true ? why can't you dye wood blue ?

Guitars can be dyed blue but the batch that all the builders were given back then (Mohawk iirc) had a tendency to change to a greenish hue, though not all the guitars have changed at the same rate/color.

[Rob MacKillop]

The boy can play!

[RJVB]

I esp. liked the Hollenbeck, Buscarino and (somewhat less) the Megas and Grimes. A bit disappointed that the Ribbecke isn't included, but it's already hard enough to make a sensible distinction when they're not all used for exactly the same notes.

The Gibson probably sounds the most like a jazzguitar should sound - but then they more or less defined the term, didn't they...

It surprised me how much they were all in more or less the same sonic ballpark with only a few having a sound that I would describe as "throaty."[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE-fmZYaZLE"

I guess that you'd get as many different sound signatures if you performed that same "strum" on a single of the guitars (esp. if you vary the recording angle and distance too).