# Interesting guitar video **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 18, 2011, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-guitar-video/596735 "2011-09-18T19:26:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2011, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-guitar-video/596735/1 "2011-09-18T19:26:10Z")
[This woman](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9qE-qXI11I&feature=related) (click the skip ad button) appears to be self-taught. Not that she’s a virtuoso or anything, but it’s an interesting folk-style way of playing. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2011, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-guitar-video/596735/2 "2011-09-18T20:18:08Z")
yeah, i have linked to this musician before. Playing a specially set-up guitar; missing a string or two, with the high strings set up in an open chord and the bass strings to complement. Basically appears to be a improvised or local variant to lap steel or Hawaiin slack key playing. Cool. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2011, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-guitar-video/596735/3 "2011-09-18T21:15:20Z")
It seems to me that there’s some other string instrument which is usually fretted that way, but I can’t think of what it would be. Well, in general, I mean, without the flourishes like knuckle rolls and fret slides. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2011, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-guitar-video/596735/4 "2011-09-18T21:29:04Z")
That’s nothing. Watch [Rory Hoffman](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7kNkfU0LHs) play Autumn Leaves in a similar style. One difference: Rory is…well, I’ll let someone else tell us his handicap. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2011, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-guitar-video/596735/5 "2011-09-18T23:47:22Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > That’s nothing. Watch [Rory Hoffman](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7kNkfU0LHs) play Autumn Leaves in a similar style. One difference: Rory is…well, I’ll let someone else tell us his handicap. I’m so sick of blind geniuses. Handicapped people get all the breaks. :mad: 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Turble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Turble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turble)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-guitar-video/596735/6 "2011-09-21T17:23:46Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > It seems to me that there’s some other string instrument which is usually fretted that way, but I can’t think of what it would be. Well, in general, I mean, without the flourishes like knuckle rolls and fret slides. I’d guess you’re thinking of the [mountain dulcimer](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7GEPFec2e4&feature=related). ---
**Author:** ![by-tor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/by-tor/32/266_2.png) [@by-tor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/by-tor)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-guitar-video/596735/7 "2011-09-22T01:56:01Z")
I’ll see your Rory Hoffman and raise you a Stefan Joubert! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/F0KmQQbc4Z4/hqdefault.jpg "guy on the street playing guitar beautiful music - Stefan Joubert") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0KmQQbc4Z4) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/nCwt2Rl4TC4/hqdefault.jpg "Stefan Joubert: london's greatest guitar player!!") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCwt2Rl4TC4) ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-guitar-video/596735/8 "2011-09-22T02:00:48Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I’m so sick of blind geniuses. Handicapped people get all the breaks. :mad: 😉 Another blind asshole genius :): [Jeff Healy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYRhk0wWwr0), similar style but blues/rock. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-guitar-video/596735/9 "2011-09-22T05:28:07Z")
Yeah, mountain dulcimer is what I was thinking of (though I don’t think I knew the name before). Thanks, **Turble**! ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-guitar-video/596735/10 "2011-09-22T13:36:51Z")
> [@Turble](#): > > I’d guess you’re thinking of the [mountain dulcimer](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7GEPFec2e4&feature=related). That was the first thought to pop into my head. “So she’s playing it like a dulcimer? Cool.” ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-guitar-video/596735/11 "2011-09-22T15:46:25Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > That’s nothing. Watch [Rory Hoffman](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7kNkfU0LHs) play Autumn Leaves in a similar style. One difference: Rory is…well, I’ll let someone else tell us his handicap. Awesome - straight-up jazz guitar, but played lap-guitar style. I can’t imagine how he does it, but it sounds spot on as a performance… ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-guitar-video/596735/12 "2011-09-22T15:48:34Z")
> [@by-tor](#): > > I’ll see your Rory Hoffman and raise you a Stefan Joubert! > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0KmQQbc4Z4](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0KmQQbc4Z4) > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCwt2Rl4TC4](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCwt2Rl4TC4) Ah, a Stanley Jordan two-handed tap player…with the guitar on his lap. Fascinating. The guitar can be used as a music-triggering device in so many ways…