mickcope Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 (edited) I got this a few months ago from Hoggoblin in Brighton for a project that didnt work out - and have decided to move it on to make way for a new project. [url="http://www.hobgoblin.com/local/products/GR36034/Atlas-Guitarron/"]http://www.hobgoblin...tlas-Guitarron/[/url] I live in Rayleigh Essex as it will need to be a pick up as too large to post Cheers Mick To quote wiki: [color=#252525][font=sans-serif]The [b]guitarrón mexicano[/b] (the [url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language"]Spanish[/url] name of a "big Mexican guitar", the suffix "-ón" being a Spanish[url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmentative"]augmentative[/url]) or [b]Mexican guitarron[/b] is a very large, deep-bodied Mexican six-string acoustic bass played traditionally in [url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariachi"]mariachi[/url] groups. Although similar to the guitar, it is not a derivative of that instrument, but was independently developed from the sixteenth-century Spanish [i]bajo de uña[/i] ("fingernail[-plucked] bass"). Because its great size gives it volume, it does not require electric amplification for performances in small venues. The guitarrón is fretless with heavy gauge strings, most commonly nylon for the high three and wound metal for the low three. The guitarrón is usually played by doubling notes at the octave, a practice facilitated by the standard guitarrón tuning [b]A1 D2 G2 C3 E3 A3[/b]. Sometimes the high [b]A[/b] is [url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reentrant_tuning"]lowered an octave[/url], putting it just one octave above the low[b]A[/b].[sup][url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitarr%C3%B3n_mexicano#cite_note-1"][1][/url][/sup][/font][/color] [color=#252525][font=sans-serif]The guitarrón was the inspiration behind [url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Ball"]Ernie Ball[/url]'s development of the first modern [url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_bass_guitar"]acoustic bass guitar[/url], released on the market in 1972.[sup][url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitarr%C3%B3n_mexicano#cite_note-2"][2][/url][/sup][/font][/color] Edited November 2, 2015 by mickcope Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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