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Excerpted from Acoustic Guitar magazine, May 2000, No. 89. PAULINHO NOGUEIRA | SEAN LAKEMAN | PACO PENA | THE DIXIE CHICKS Paulinho Nogueira’s main guitar is a 1937 Del Vecchio given to him by his father when he was ten. On stage he uses an Admira 2000 SI, a Spanish-made acoustic-electric. He also owns, but seldom plays, an acoustic-electric Takamine EC128. —Ron Forbes Roberts Equation guitarist Sean Lakeman’s primary ax is an early ’50s Martin 0-15, which he amplifies by running the signal from a Mimesis pickup (now manufactured by Fishman as the Rare Earth pickup) through a Trace Elliot preamp and into the PA. He uses D’Addario medium-gauge phosphor-bronze strings and heavy flatpicks. He primarily plays in standard tuning to avoid extensive peg twisting while the rest of the members of Equation wait to start the next song, but he is fond of using a Third Hand capo (PO Box 7461, Madison WI, 53707; [608] 224-2320; www.thirdhandcapo.com) to get different sounds. "There’s a setting where you can drag [the fifth, fourth, and third strings] up two frets in standard tuning and get a D A D G A D sound," says Lakeman. "It’s really great. You can still play standard tuning shapes, but you get the open, ringy sound." —Scott Nygaard Paco Peña plays a flamenco guitar made by Gerundino Fernandez from Almería, the Spanish province southeast of Granada. "It’s quite old," says Peña, "1980, but it’s a lovely guitar. It’s quite battered, I’ve used it a lot, but its tone is completely new." He has taped up the guitar on its back and sides. "I’ve always put something on the guitar to give it friction to keep it from sliding around," he says. On stage, Peña plays through a microphone, and he expresses no particular preference about makes or models. —Stephen Dick On stage, Emily Robison plays a ’99 Taylor 714-C acoustic guitar with a Fishman Prefix Blender system, D’Addario EJ-16 strings, and a Shubb capo. She calls it "the consummate fingerpicking guitar. It rings at every register, which is important when you’re trying to get a good mix. You need to get an equal output on each string." Her banjo is a blond mid-’90s Deering Crossfire, with LaBella 730L strings. She plays a ’99 Scheerhorn resophonic guitar with a Shubb bar, a McIntyre pickup, and John Pearse Resophonic #3000 strings. She always uses a Dunlop tortoiseshell medium thumbpick, and for Dobro and banjo she also uses Dunlop stainless-steel .0225 fingerpicks on her first and second fingers. Natalie Maines plays a ’99 Taylor 914-C acoustic guitar with a Fishman Prefix Blender system, Martin MSP-3100 strings, and a Kyser capo. Her electric guitar is a ’99 Fender Standard American Telecaster with Dean Markley Blue Steel LTHB (.010–.052) strings and a Fender ’65 Reissue Twin Reverb amp. Her picks are hot-pink EBE Alien flatpicks. Martie Seidel’s first fiddle is a 1920s German Strad model imported by J.R. Holcomb and Co. of Cleveland. Her second fiddle is a German Stainer built in the late teens or early ’20s. Each is equipped with an L.R. Baggs violin bridge, a Shure SM98 mic (RF), and D’Addario Helicore H310 (heavy-tension) strings. —Kenny Berkowitz |
