It was Wes' brother Monk, two years his senior, who aware of Wes enthusiasm saved U$S 13 to buy him a tenor guitar from the local pawnshop and kindled his fire.Ģ. Probably what needs to be explained here is that the Montgomery Brothers all had a reputation of their own, and Buddy and Monk's preceded Wes':ġ. (Monk Montgomery is the gentleman playing the Fender bass in that video). How I know that? Because that person is playing a guitar with the legend "Wes Montgomery" engraved below the pickguard. To be sure, Wes Montgomery is the person that appears in the video (my post # 26 above) playing that beautiful L5. Yes!! Monk Montgomery´s brother was Wes Montgomery.Ģ. Sometimes what seems obvious needs to be stated:ġ. Also, I'm not at all sure about when these fado basses were first introduced.)Ĭlick to expand.Thanks Jamro 217 and MattZilla for your posts. Its main figure, fado bass player Joel Pina, favoured contra- octave mandolin tuning, to wit G1-D2-A2-E3. Portugal has an interesting history of classical guitar -based ABGs that's little known outside their borders. with two extra top strings and narrow spacing. (Bohmann's contra bass guitar from back in '899 was, probably, like our bass VI, i.e. Now, the first horizontally-played 4-string bass guitar, electric or not, was Tutmarc's, at least AFAIK. (I've not yet found an authoritative history of mexican guitarrón, but it and the original guitar-shaped Balkan berde are/were tuned differently anyway.) ^ Agreed: Meyers's 1914 beast gets mine too.
Or this other long lute without floating bass strings, the colascione, as shown in a video posted by Scott a while ago. No idea about the connection, but Slingerland has the distinction of having produced the first (1936) solid-body electric guitar as we commonly intend it: there were a couple earlier contenders, but one, the (Rickenbacker) Electro-Spanish Model B had a thick-walled bakelite body but an (arguably non-functional) empty chamber inside, while the Vivi-Tone was basically like a Yamaha Sinsonido with a plywood top the Slingerland Songster 401 instead had a big ole slab o'wood as a body, like most of today's models.
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