National Guitar NRP vs Triolian Nut Demo, Learn About Resonator Guitars

http://www.nationalguitar.com/ Hello my friends. In this demo, I compare the sound of two National Reso-Phonic guitars. The NRP normally comes with a mahogany neck and ebony nut. The Triolian normally comes with a maple neck and bone nut. What i did was outfit both guitars with both bone and ebony nuts to see if there is a tonal difference in just the nut material. Use your ears, the answer is at the end. These guitars and many more are in stock ready to ship. We are the worlds largest National Guitar dealer, both new and vintage! Feel free to call me to discuss or purchase these models. 805-884-0050 info@NationalGuitar.com. Cheers, Lenny G.

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• national
• guitar
• resophonic
• blues
• steel
• resonator
• triolian
• duolian
• nrp
• tricone
• slide
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[NationalGuitarMan]

Hi all, bone and antler has definitely been used regularly, but I can't comment on them for a saddle. I think the sound was too brittle on the few guitars i bought that had these materials for saddles. I think the hard rock maple does great there. Also heard of some old growth woods that also make great saddles from a banjo maker buddy. Action is a bit higher than a typical acoustic, but I'd say medium. Definitely not slide specific. Cheers, Lenny

[NationalGuitarMan]

Appreciate the comments friends, the idea was to stimulate thought on this and seems it did just that. Thanks for contributing your impressions. Zak, my brother, hope all's well with you too!

Cheers, Len

[LeZouave]

you can hear the difference only on the open notes that is why this test was mostly useless. You hear the difference between mahogany and mapple pretty nicely, but it is subtle. Nut material is not important when fretting obviously, and I find on this guitar the bone nut a must have, stronger clearer and more articulate bass line on open strings.

[pkalldayful]

do you think deer bone or antler would be a good nut or saddle? mabey even bridge pins? or too briddle?

[colemontelongo]

@colemontelongo graphite, ebony, bone, walrus, mammoth . . . I want unicorn

[colemontelongo]

Kind of what I was wondering about. Some banjos have twangy snail shell nuts. what type of action is on these guitars?

[colemontelongo]

just what I was looking for. what type of material was used on my 2000 estralita? its splitting like a fingernail (ouch) . and how does NRP dictate the action on these instruments?

[michaelsegui]

I liked the ebony/mahogany.

[sawabojo]

Hi, yes indeed, a difference was noticable. It was a very interesting experiment. Thank you. Personally speaking it got me thinking. Al.

[snorrevonflake]

Funny to my ears the brightest was number 4 (the one with manogany neck and ebony nut), also i liked that best although normally i tend to prefer "dark" to bright sounding guitars. but i think the differences are very sublte, from those vids i could would not be able to tell them from each other in a blind test