Home / Music / Gear / Thoughts / MySpace / Links / Contact / About
Tacoma Thunderhawk
OK. Here's the deal.
Been wanting a Sobell guitar for a long time, but have never had the money
(8K+) to get one. I recently found out that Stefan makes a "D Guitar", that is,
a long scale version of his models, designed to be tuned 1-2 steps lower. Well,
that sounded very interesting, but still out of reach for a guy with a
wonderful wife, a passel of kids and a mortgage. Put it on the backburner.
Enter Ebay
Sold a bunch of old music equipment on "the bay" recently, so I had a little dough available. I was waffling between a Carvin Bolt kit guitar and a cool little Martin (OOO15S), when all of a sudden, the Sobell came to mind. The word baritone also came to mind, so I did some searching and found that Tacoma makes a 29" scale baritone called the Thunderhawk. Also found that Elderly Instruments had one used for a good price. I decided to try it out. Wow! It is like having a piano sitting in your lap. Awesome tone, and it goes really LOWWWWW...I would still really like to get the Sobell, but for now, this will do. Here are some short improvs of the beast, which will give you a feel for what it sounds like, at least in my hands.
8/2005
Improvisation #1 (4.82 MB)
Copyright 2008 Bill Vencil