I have put about 100 hours of playing time on my dobro, and below I have attached my estimate of the quality of my new guitar. Feel free to post wherever :-)
Thanks, Jon.....
I own a resonator guitar built by Freddie Miler.
I wanted to offer a critique of this instrument and its builder's capabilities, for the benefit of anyone considering having Freddie build one, but I'm sorry. Frankly, I can't find anything to criticize.
It has a few tiny cosmetic glitches but they arent noticeable. Look hard enough and you can find imperfection in anything created by man. God gave us imperfections as a gift making us so uniquely human, and it is in the imperfections of man that we truly find beauty. My Freddie Miler Guitar, is the end result of all that beauty that which man can produce.
Of the hundreds of stringed instruments I have played through the years, this instrument is truly the finest I have played. It was perhaps built for monetary profit, but the real end result, the real profit, was the absolutely incredible instrument Mr. Miler produced. It was built with a love for his craft, the music it produces, and I believe a true understanding and an appreciation and understanding of the love a musician puts into his instrument. To play music one must be willing to transfer your heart and soul into sound, and have the courage to display that sound for everone to hear, and understand. Mr Miler transferred that heart and soul to a living, breathing, almost magical combination of beauty and sounds that can touch the heart, and sing to the soul. I have spent years frustrated that I could play my music and that my guitar couldn't adequately produce the sounds and moods I needed. Now I truly own a guitar that if it frustrates me, is because I'm not sure I'll ever be good enough to live up to my guitar.
If your looking for another guitar, there are a lot of companies out there making some pretty great machine buffed assembly line guitars, and some of them sound pretty darn good. If you want to sound pretty good, go buy one. If your looking for that one guitar that will be your best friend and most treasured posession, see Freddie Miler and I hope, you'll get lucky enough to get him to build your guitar..
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I have put about 100 hours of playing time on my dobro, and below I have attached my estimate of the quality of my new guitar. Feel free to post wherever :-)
Thanks, Jon.....
I own a resonator guitar built by Freddie Miler.
I wanted to offer a critique of this instrument and its builder's capabilities, for the benefit of anyone considering having Freddie build one, but I'm sorry. Frankly, I can't find anything to criticize.
It has a few tiny cosmetic glitches but they arent noticeable. Look hard enough and you can find imperfection in anything created by man. God gave us imperfections as a gift making us so uniquely human, and it is in the imperfections of man that we truly find beauty. My Freddie Miler Guitar, is the end result of all that beauty that which man can produce.
Of the hundreds of stringed instruments I have played through the years, this instrument is truly the finest I have played. It was perhaps built for monetary profit, but the real end result, the real profit, was the absolutely incredible instrument Mr. Miler produced. It was built with a love for his craft, the music it produces, and I believe a true understanding and an appreciation and understanding of the love a musician puts into his instrument. To play music one must be willing to transfer your heart and soul into sound, and have the courage to display that sound for everone to hear, and understand. Mr Miler transferred that heart and soul to a living, breathing, almost magical combination of beauty and sounds that can touch the heart, and sing to the soul. I have spent years frustrated that I could play my music and that my guitar couldn't adequately produce the sounds and moods I needed. Now I truly own a guitar that if it frustrates me, is because I'm not sure I'll ever be good enough to live up to my guitar.
If your looking for another guitar, there are a lot of companies out there making some pretty great machine buffed assembly line guitars, and some of them sound pretty darn good. If you want to sound pretty good, go buy one. If your looking for that one guitar that will be your best friend and most treasured posession, see Freddie Miler and I hope, you'll get lucky enough to get him to build your guitar..
Thanks and Good Luck.....
Jon Sills
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