Lowden Guitars are played by...
Brian Mc Sweeney
Paul Brady
Richard Thompson
Mary Chapin-Carpenter
Declan Sinnott
Christy Moore (I've heard he owns at least one)
and several guitarists I don't know, but have seen here in Ireland.
Lowdens are becoming more & more popular here. In general, each of their models
has a beautiful tone. I have an O-32 & I don't intend to change, ever. It's the
most beautiful guitar I've ever heard.
Kwill512
John Jennings (Mary C-C's producer/guitarist)
Subtract: Mary C-C - she plays Greven guitars
Christopher Landry
Nick plays Steel and Greg plays Nylon
If you have not heard these two...they have produced some great music.
Tim Maggio
I believe she has been seen with a Lowden in her arms now and then..
Add:
Pierre Bensusan
Alex De Grassi
Shawn Colvin
Bob Dylan (!?)
Guy Snape
There is one other that I know of (that has not been mentioned). It
is this Hawaiian player. Big guy. He has these ads in Acoustic Guitar,
but the issue I have with me at work does not have his ad in it.
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PKelley772
of holding my right elbow so far out in front of me, thought, so I've
been thinking about buying a second acoustic guitar. For the last 9
months or so I have spent more than a few hours in music stores playing
candidate guitars.
I've played several Lowdens, both of which allegedly had walnut sides and
back. I don't remember model numbers, but I concentrated on a small
guitar with a cutaway and a narrow neck. It was a very playable guitar,
comfortable to hold and quite loud. I played this guitar several times
and only recently eliminated it from further consideration, primarily
because of how it sounded to me on my last visit. It's loud, and has an
unusual tone - more "compact" than many, very punchy. Unfortunately, on
my last visit, it sounded somewhat "honky" to me. The music store person
changed the strings, but it still sounded honky. I took this to mean
that I was finally hearing what the guitar sounded like, not that my
hearing was off on that day. Of course it might be that the other music
store I go to has a comfortable sofa on which you can try out their fancy
guitars, but I don't think so.
Perhaps someone can provide a more fair word than honky? Anyhow, I
suspect that this tone might be useful in some cases - I've heard that, in
ensemble playing, it's useful if the instruments stay out of each other's
way - it seems to me that this Lowden would "specialize" in an unusual
frequency range. If anyone can elaborate on this, I'd be interested in
hearing about it.
That day I also played what seemed to be a rosewood J-40 (Martin) which
completely blew me away. Unbelievable resonance, warmth, highs, lows,
balance. I've played many many Martins, Taylors, some Guilds, Larrivees;
I've played other Martin jumbos, and haven't liked them much, but this one
was amazing. Better, I think, than the Taylor cutaway jumbo (855?) which
I like a lot.
Anyhow, I'm leaning towards one of the smaller, non-cutaway Taylors. Such
a comfortable guitar to play (might be that sofa, though) and very good
sounding, too. I can't keep the model numbers straight without a program,
but I think it's a "limited edition" or something like that. Cedar top,
apparently, which is a nice break from the highs you get with spruce (at
least that's the way it seems to me).
Actually, it occurs to me that there might be an inverse relationship
between waist size and desired guitar size - as my waist grows, smaller
guitars appeal to me more. Or is it just that my ear is maturing.? Maybe
my arms are too short.
Well, that's enough bandwidth for one night. Please feel fee to
comment. Note however, that any rude comments that I recognize will be
met with an appropriate reaction.
StringSing
(stevemac) writes:
>There are not too many Lowden Guitars out there, so it should be
relatively
>easy to complile a list of
>players, professionals and fumblers (like me)
Don't forget Pierre Bensusan and Acoustic Alchemy.
I play a L25C that I've had for about 10 years. Check through the rmmga
directory to see who else participates in this newsgroup and plays them.
Roy
Tom Redmond
Lowden.
stevemac
please let me know. You are welcome to add a comment about their performance - compared and
contrasted with other acoustics on the market.
Steve
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Richard Murai
new, but undelivered 0-22 12 string at the Lowden Factory in June).
Rick Murai
Chifuru Noda
Paul Brady
Richard Thompson
Mary Chapin-Carpenter
Declan Sinnott
Christy Moore (I've heard he owns at least one)
Nick Webb and Greg Carmichael of "Acoustic Alchemy"
Nick plays Steel and Greg plays Nylon
Tim Maggio <ti...@dkbfp-dev8.166.84.0.220> wrote:
> Pierre Bensusan
> Alex De Grassi
> Shawn Colvin
> Bob Dylan (!?)
> Guy Snape
Michael Hedges uses one occasionally (with *low* tuning)
Lisa Gade uses one, although her main guitar is a Martin
The Hawaiian slack-key player Tim mentioned must be Ray Kane.
Merry Xmas
Chief
Jon Elion
Add to this list the Eagles (don't remember which one -- it is plainly
seen on the "Hell Freezes Over" Video).
Also Peter Mayer (hope that is spelled right) -- guitarist with
Jimmy Buffett (uses it for slide, of all things...)
Oh yeah, don't forget me, too! (Lowden 032c, and loving it...)
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Brown Univ Inst for Medical Computing
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Peter Hadcock
guitarist/prodecer's Lowden and Shawn Colvin when she was "Larry
Sanders" on HBO.
Peter Hadcock
Dave McMullen
played his Lowden cutaway the whole time. Sounded great.
Shin. Kat.
.......and,
Mike Oldfield-san used two Lowden's (Nylon & Steel)
in(the video of)Tubular Bells II concert at Edinbrough, UK.
(I have a copy of LD.)
> Merry Xmas
Merry Xmas!
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My fingers are in love with 1 3/4" vintage V-shape neck of Martin
OM.
Joerg Muessig
He plays a Lowden S5 on his amazing accoustic album "wolves" from 1994.
*Jörg* ~^°
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Onduma Faloon
: The Hawaiian slack-key player Tim mentioned must be Ray Kane.
Right. Ray Kane said he plays a "top-of-the-line" Lowden, but I'm
not sure which one....
Dave Hallowell
(he is just releasing a CD 'rapture' according to his postcard)
plays a Lowden 6 string a Lowden 12 string.
Lynn McLean
as well as an Olson, (made in Minneapolis). Interestingly, his
guitars are strung right-handed, but he plays left-handed,
fingering all his chords backwards.
--
-Lynn
Chifuru Noda
Dave - you're too modest. Don't you play one or two Lowdens yourself?
:-)
Chief
Ronjo555
Art Edelstein
http://plainfield.bypass.com/~arte/celtic.html
which is dedicated to Celtic Fingerstyle Guitar playing. I'm featuring
El McMeen in the first edition.
Hope you'll all check it out.
Happy New Year
Art Edelstein
Len Kovalsky
suprised that no one listed Pierre Bensusan yet. He has been
playing Lowdens for essentially all of his career, and has avidly
endorsed them. There is a discussion with George Lowden on page
21 of his "The Guitar Book."
--
Len Kovalsky
Andy Howell
However, Pierre bought his Lowden when George still built them. This he no
longer does remaining only as a consultant with the company - in order to
let them use the name I think.
The original Lowdens were superb guitars and very different from today's
range.
--
Andy Howell
Birmingham, UK.