'If You Don't Want Me' - Mississippi John Hurt

A version of Mississippi John Hurt's 'If You Don't Want Me', played on a Yamaha FG200. Visit my website www.thumbpicker1812.co.uk.

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Music

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• acoustic
• guitar
• country
• blues
• fingerpicking
• Mississippi
• John
• Hurt
• Yamaha
• FG200
• Thumbpicker1812

[NimRankin]

Nicely played!

[thumbpickr1812]

Cheers!

[stephen518]

This song is Unknown for me. That's good surprise ! Well-played

[thumbpickr1812]

glad you liked it - and a surprise can't be bad at this time of year!

[thumbpickr1812]

thanx!

[smellolovitz]

A couple of days ago,the Super,down the street threw out an FG-200. I grabbed it! I flipped it lefty. There's a slight roundness between the bridge & tail. Do you use light strings?? Do you use Bone Ivory pegs? How about the saddle? I think I might invest on clearing some of the issues w/ the buzzing & action. It has a great sound,& the price was right. Looks to be a 75' Ya sound great, I'm a blues guy myself. Harp is my strong suit,but I play blues on guitar w/ a passion.

[thumbpickr1812]

Hi! I bought that FG200 new in 1975. You can get a great sound from this guitar - see the comments at Harmony Central. I use Ernie Ball 80/20 Bronze medium light 12-54 strings on the FG 200. The saddle is bone and I lowered the action by shaving the saddle down. The pegs are the original plastic. I hit the strings pretty hard because that way you can get a lot of resonance from the unpicked strings. Try it.

[smellolovitz]

Well I went ahead & bought the Phosphor Bronze .010-.047.

I got the man made ivory pins & lefty nut.

I don't want to shave down the nut just yet.I'll wait to get a man made ivory saddle.

The action is higher,& it still buzzes on certain frets.

I got a dunlop capo too that make the action a little better.

I read in Harmony Central that the sound is better two weeks after you put on new strings.

We'll see.

Thanks again for the info.

You're right,the x-light strings make it sound a little too brite

[smellolovitz]

I think I'll try the light strings for now.I play hard too,but I don't want to create problems w/ the tension.

They had lowered the saddle too,and the used match box paper to raise it again.If I can get a pro to fix the buzzing,I might invest in those Bone ivory pegs.A lot of players I know,swear by em'.@ $100+ for 6 pegs,it's an expensive proposition.But,hey,the guitar cost me nothing.My friend bought a Martin,and they said,only light strings,or the warranty is void.

Thanks for responding fast!

[thumbpickr1812]

many thanks