[Postcard2] RE: Haggard on Tour

[Mayjway at aol.com]

Those rosewood telecasters are especially heavy!
 
 
In a message dated 6/25/2009 12:16:52 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
jacoblondon at comcast.net writes:

Teles  seems to really vary in weight, depending on the wood used in the 
body. I  played some, especially from the '70s that weren't that much 
lighter than  a Les Paul.

Was he playing steel string acoustic or Nylon? Nylon would  definitely be 
easier on the hands and lighter too.

JL

Mike  Woods wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Rick Kelly wrote:
>  
>> interesting question....maybe it's  weight?
>>
>> then again it's not like Hag plays a Les Paul  some other huge, heavy 
>> brick of a guitar... Telecasters aren't  THAT heavy, are they?
> 
> No, they're not.  I've never  weighed my Tele or my Strat, but I have 
> weighed my Les Paul  Recording.  13 f*cking pounds.  That was my only 
> good  electric guitar from 1976 to sometime in the 90s.  I think playing  
> it (in the earlier years, 5 - 6 nights per week) wrecked my left  
shoulder.
> 
> -- Mike Woods
> 
> 
>  


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