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by JimTidmarsh » Thu Jan 21, 2016 11:38 am
Interesting article about The Searchers use of 12 string guitars. A
pparently, it was a Burns Double Six used on When You Walk in the Room & not a Rickenbacker has been widely thought.
http://www.the-searchers.co.uk/ricky.htm
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by Moderne » Thu Jan 21, 2016 11:26 pm
Interesting article by Frank Allen, but I always assumed they played Burns guitars on "Room" and other singles from 1965 as all period shots show them using them. It seems a shame that Frank didn't like his "hideous", rattly Bison bass - it looks magnificent to me!
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by Uncle Fiesta » Sat Jan 23, 2016 12:44 am
Actually, I never doubted that it was a Burns! Having played this song on both, I think the Burns sounds better.
(Probably because the normal strings and the octave strings are strung the 'right' way round, whereas on the Rick they are reversed.)
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