Chords for Phil Hunt talks about his Baldwin guitar

_ _ _ _ It's a 1972 Baldwin guitar.
It's the same guitar that Jerry re-recorded.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ And that's the [Ab] heart, I guess, of the Baldwin guitar.
[N] _ _ It's an unusual pickup.
It runs off of 22 1⁄2 volts instead of 9 volts like most guitars.
And it has a separate battery box that you have to plug into it.
_ _ _ _ _ Jerry's sound, I guess, on his Baldwin guitar. What's this?
His guitar originally was like this in the early 70s.
But I think he had somebody chop it about right here.
He told the person, he said, you know, he wanted the guitar chopped.
So he said, yeah, I want it cut about right here.
And when he went like that, that's exactly what the person saw.
So that when you see Jerry's guitar, it's straight line.
That's how it is.
_ _ What's that?
It's a 1972 Baldwin guitar.
It's a short scale guitar.
And it makes it a little easier to play a lot of the Jerry Reed stuff.
Unlike, you know, like a Godin or something like that.
It's a longer scale, you know, like this one.
Yeah, like a sand guitar.
It's a little longer scale.
But for some reason, playing the Reed stuff, you can grab some of the notes and stretches and stuff like that.
Also, I got LaBella flamenco strings.
He used the first, the second, the third, or red trebles. _ _
They're flamenco type strings.
[Ab] Jerry used a lot of those.
_ [Bb] [B] Figures he won't play like Jerry.
[F] Yeah.
When you got this guitar?
I got it back in 2004, I believe.
There was a guy here at the Chet Atkins Convention named Carlton Jones who had this guitar.
And I bugged him and bugged him at the convention the whole time.
[B] I said, you know, if you ever sell that Baldwin, let [Gb] me know.
And he called me up one day and he said,
Hey, Phil, you still interested in a Baldwin guitar?
I said, heck yeah.
He said, because I'm interested in buying a Kirk Van Richard [F] Smith model.
And I want to sell that so I can get the Richard Smith model.
So I bought it off of him.
There was no hesitation whatsoever.
If you find one, you're going to end up paying probably [N] $1,500, maybe a little more than that, $1,500 US.
Well, _ [Ab] I'll tell you what I'm about to do.
_ I talked to George Gruen of Gruen Guitars and he said [Eb] that they're becoming scarce.
The price has gone up to probably over $2,000 for them now. _ _
And it's basically a Harmony guitar at the Harmony Guitar Company. _
But Harmony made one called the Harmony H174.
It's exactly like this guitar except it doesn't have three rings around the sound hole.
It only has two.
It's the exact same setup though.
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It's got the same [Eb] clubby neck.
I had this neck rinsed up [N] and refretted and I had the neck shaved down because it was too clubby feeling for me.
I just couldn't play it so I had it shaved down so I could play it a little bit. _ _
_ [Dbm] Do you know anything about the company?
Baldwin?
[F] I think they were a piano company.
Yeah, they were the Baldwin Piano [N] Company.
I believe they merged with Gretsch at one time.
_ _ Gibson bought them out.
_ [Ab] So in business I think they're still making pianos.
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_ It's the same type of pickup that Willie Nelson has in his guitar, in his Martin that he plays.
It has the hole and all the signatures and all that kind of stuff. _ _
How do you compare that sound for example to Kirk's hands or Kirk's hand guitars or other nylon strings?
It's totally different.
It doesn't compare.
I don't really care for them.
_ _ Too bright and _ they don't [B] _ sound too natural.
[Abm] This sounds completely different unamplified.
When you amplify it, it really comes out.
It's probably the best pickup I've ever made.
The volume, the _ _ [N] _ _ balance, you don't have to EQ it or anything.
_ Do you have any feedback issues?
No, none at all. _