Monday, 20 December 2010

Marcel Dadi's Princess


After posting about the Ibanez Marcel Dadi, I figured that most people probably don't know who Marcel Dadi is - I can understand that, he was supposedly a genius picking player (the picking is a finger technic used mostly for country music and acoustic ballads) so I thought that I should propose a video of Dadi playing his Princess. I've never been interested in him or his music, but when I started guitar is the early 80s, his name was everywhere in France, he had his signature strings that were extremely popular, as were his teaching method books. Anyway, he was also associated with Chet Atkins (and several other country musicians whose name trigger nothing in me), so American readers probably know him better than people from the rest of the world...

Dadi plays here this one-off guitar made by French Luthier Franck Cheval: the Princess. I'm not a fan of heavy abalone inlays but the rolled upper horn à la Gibson Mandolin is quite impressive. Some people call it the best guitar in the world... Ah, ces Français !


Bertram

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2 comments:

  1. Il existe également une Burns Marcel Dadi
    http://chtiburnsman.e-monsite.com/album/burns-marcel-dadi/

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  2. Cette guitare Marcel Dadi signature est vraiment très belle , savez vous qu'il existe aussi une Burns Marcel Dadi unique édition que malheureusement il n'aura jamais eu
    http://chtiburnsman.e-monsite.com/album/burns-marcel-dadi/dsc04225.html

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