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Lamaq and Lowden guitar comparison
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This is a test file comparing a Lamaq GAL5190 guitar (£99) with a Lowden S35C (£2500)
singer songwriter acoustic folk british guitarist song celtic traditional fingerstyle scottish scotland guitar kelso
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Solo singer-songwriter and tunesmith playing British fingerstyle steel and nylon string guitar, and historic instruments. Scots and Irish influences.
I've been writing and playing songs and tunes since teenage years in folk clubs and pubs. I co-organise the Kelso Friday night live music sessions at the Cross Keys (hosted singaround 7.45-10pm) and Cobbles Inn (10-12pm open mic with The Cobbles Band) with the help of many friends. All welcome! Visit us at kelsofolkandlive co uk. It is worth clicking on the tab because the sound quality of my tracks is far higher than the auto player on this page. Many can be streamed or downloaded at 320KBps and the enhancement for solo guitar/voice far exceeds the benefit you get for highly compressed band recordings. My recordings are full dynamic, not compressed. Just select Hi-Fi for the first song, and an MP3 high bitrate window will open - you will still get a sequence of songs. Most of my downloads are free, but some 320KBps tracks are paid-for. These are selected because they make up my main instrumental album. I now have a YouTube page and have started doing some video recordings for fun: @daviddkilpatrick I have mainly played Lowden guitars since 1999. I current play a 1985 S5FN (nylon string), 1986 S22 (jumbo O-size mahogany/cedar), and 1995 S32 (small body rosewood/spruce). I also play my own 1997-built Martin 'kit' Grand Auditorium rosewood/spruce, a Sigma OM-T, Furch Little Jane, Tacoma Papoose, Guild 8-string baritone, Vintage V880 parlour guitar and Gordon Giltrap signature model, a Troubadour mahogany/spruce classical and an Adam Black 12-string. And that's just the guitars... also viola, mandolin, mandola, waldzither, bouzouki, Appalachian dulcimer, low D whistle, keyboards.
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Peak #177
Peak in subgenre #14
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David Kilpatrick
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David Kilpatrick 2007
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January 27, 2007
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MP3 4.5 MB 192 kbps 4:53
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My Lowden is a Ziricote/Cedar S35C small body new factory cutaway with wide fingerboard and other custom options. It's an expensive guitar. My Lamaq GAL5190 is a Chinese-made Rosewood/Cedar almost identical in body size and scale, but a full half inch slimmer than the very deep Lowden, and with a conventional narrow neck. Marc Antonio Lamaq, the designer, sold a quantity of such solid wood instruments on eBay around Christmas 2006 to New Year 2007, at fixed very low prices. They have bridges very similar to the Lowden (pinless, split saddle) and while no way directly comparable owe a lot to Lowden and other modern acoustics. My £99 instrument came with a Fishman Classic 4 installed. I will let you make your own conclusions about the respective sound qualities from the file. Comments: I have short, thin, hard nails and do not use artificial nails or picks. The sharp sound of the trebles is 'me' not the guitars. The Lamaq has cheap plastic saddles and nut, the Lowden has bone. Both are recorded with two Behringer C-1 mics in a stereo rig 2 ft from the playing position, plus an AKG C2000B at head height above them, at half the volume. No EQ, no reverb, no fx. Roland VS-880EX recorded using a compactflash card modification.
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