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Right after he got it, Ry left a message on my answering Ry acquired the BB sometime in the late 90's throughĪ mutual friend. Also, the fretboard of the BB has a littleįlatter radius than what we usually use, which makes it a bit more "bottleneckįriendly". Koa, which has a honky, midrange-y tone, and the top is ladder-braced The top, back and sides of the BB are made of Of a Slope D (one of our regular models) that was developed specificallyįor bottleneck playing. On the Buena Vista Social Club DVD Ry plays a Gibson SJ-200. Thisīecause he says it "lends itself to a darker sounding blues". The two he uses most for his recordedīlues are Open D and Open E. Lends to his technique of allowing adjoining strings to ring out buzz He alsoĪdjusts the strings on his guitars to a flat vs. The slide in a fan-like pattern is part of his trademark sound. Ry Cooder doesn't use any picks, he prefers the sound of fingertipsĪnd natural fingernails on the strings. Host of other guitars that have been assembled from strat, les paul, Which Cooder uses for slide playing a rudra vina,Ī sacred eight-string Indian instrument that is the ancestor of the Mastertone guit-jo from the 1930s a custom-made Japanese ShimuĪuditorium-sized cutaway steel-string an Indian tamboura, Hawaiian lap guitar, which Cooder plays in the Spanish position a Gibson In the March/April 1993 Great Acoustics department a Kona
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Kraft (made by the Stromberg-Voisinet company), which was featured Into a mando-guitar with four double courses tuned in fifths a Kay Plywood flattop cutaway converted from a standard six-string guitar Other acoustic instruments owned by Cooder include a German-made Voss Frets wereĪdded to this guitar, which was originally designed for lap-style playing.Ĭooder still owns a 1950s Martin 000-18, which Turnerīelieves he used to record the theme from Paris, Texas. It has a label saying "Weird stuff".)Īcoustic guitar, according to his guitar repairman Rick Turner, is a (Regretfully, the picture doesn't show the top level. So let's not think we'll ever know a fraction of his collection. This is a picture of a fraction of Ry's instrument closet.