Paul Brett - Oscar Schmidt -Stella - Tree of Life - 1920's 6 string

Acoustic Magazines Vintage Guitar expert, Paul Brett's DVD sample on collecting vintage acoustic guitars.Paul is rated as one of the leading 12 string guitarists in the World and his full DVD features 23 rare guitars, plus tips on collecting and sourcing these instruments. Full DVD features Stellas, Regals, Oahu, Weymann, Gibsons, Martin, Wurlitzer etc.etc.
Paul was a main contributor to Rick Batey's best selling book, The History of American Blues Guitar. The full version is available to purchase via http://www.fret-dancer.com/ where you can also view in the on-line Guitar Museum, over 100 vintage acoustics and some electrics. There is also a For Sale section, where you can buy Vintage Guitars.

Visit my site www.paulbrettguitarist.co.uk for vintage guitars,DVD's,CD's,Tablature,Guitar Museum, etc.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Stella
• six
• string
• acoustic
• guitar
• blues
• jazz
• vintage
• oscar
• schmidt

[xshabootiex]

I have an oscar schmidt guitar, that I love, but I wanna hear your opinion...do you think they're actually good guitars?

[guitbrett]

Schmidt made guitars are of 'an era'. They were the cheap, Working Man's option available at the time. Probably because of the price, many of the great Blues legends had them and created songs that are now standards in that genre.

In my opinion, they, when in playable condition, are un-surpassed for fingerstyle Blues. Maybe not so good for strumming and Folky based softer styles, but certainly deserved of their reputation.

Paul

[blewsbreaker]

Brett, is that TOL a concert size?

[guitbrett]

Absolutely...Concert Model, not Grand Concert. No cracks, splits or empty Jack Daniels bottles inside ........

[blewsbreaker]

Lovely,

Mine's a early 20's Galiano version with the mustachio bridge. What strings are you using on yours? And do you tune it below concert pitch?

[guitbrett]

Usually I use silk and steel or an extra light gague bronze. I never tune the old guitars to concert. I tune a tone or a tone and a half down if the guitar will take it and 12 strings usually a tone and a half to 2 tones down from concert.

[jacksondemarre]

I heard Charley Patton played the tree of life Stella



[metalhaze1982]

Very lovely playing...you can just feel from the video the respect brett has towards music as an art form in general.

Best regards.

[ravenrage07]

What does he play in that chord progression? It sounded amazing!

[xshabootiex]

alright, thanks for the reply :)

[GroovyGuitar02]

what chords do you play ? i love your playing , refined and subtle ...