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Topic: Can you still get "those" red thumbpicks? |
Tom Quinn
From:
Sacramento
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Roger Crawford
From:
Locust Grove, GA USA
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 Posted 30 Dec 2008 7:28 pm |
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Tom,
It's tough to get a good look from the video, but it looks like it may be a Fred Kelly speed pick. I wasn't aware that they had them in red, though. If it is a Fred Kelly, check Elderly Instruments website. |
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Bo Borland
From:
New Jersey
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| Posted 30 Dec 2008 7:57 pm |
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I got a bunch from Bobbe a while back. The look like red (blue) hercos.
I sware I play faster with them. |
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Tom Quinn
From:
Sacramento
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| Posted 30 Dec 2008 9:16 pm |
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| Yeah the Hercos... best thumber ever made... |
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Jerry Hayes
From:
Virginia Beach, Va.
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| Posted 31 Dec 2008 9:08 am |
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Tom, I use the red ones myself along with the blue Hercos. I get mine from Billy Cooper Music in Orange, Virginia.........JH in Va.
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Tom Quinn
From:
Sacramento
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| Posted 31 Dec 2008 1:05 pm |
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| Thanks! The blue ones work better for C6th... more bass! |
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Larry Bell
From:
Englewood, Florida
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| Posted 31 Dec 2008 2:47 pm |
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Tom,
What's the difference between the red ones and the blue ones? I've used the blue ones for decades. I know Scotty's used to stock them. Just curious how the red ones differ. The blue Hercos are nylon and not quite stiff enough for some folks but I really like them.
I believe Dunlop makes a red one similar -- is this it?
It's not nylon; it's delrin
If that's it, Elderly Instruments in Lansing, MI sells them -- and the blue Hercos as well
http://elderly.com/welcome.htm
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chris ivey
From:
sacto
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| Posted 31 Dec 2008 4:55 pm |
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| tom...i was using a white thumbpick when my .012 3rd string popped and cut my thumb. now the pick is red. i'll save it for you! |
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Bo Borland
From:
New Jersey
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| Posted 31 Dec 2008 5:02 pm |
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| Thats the one Larry, the red , play faster than lightning, Dunlop ,but looks like a blue herco pick.. |
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Tom Quinn
From:
Sacramento
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| Posted 31 Dec 2008 5:56 pm |
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| Chris, thanks but you have cancer. Besides, the white ones play sharp. |
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Ronnie Boettcher
From:
Brunswick Ohio, USA
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| Posted 1 Jan 2009 8:57 am |
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I am looking for something that is narrow like the pictures of the red and blue dunlops, or hercos. Trying to get a longer TINE on them. I had a bag of picks from the 60's, and my last one with a longer tine broke. Those 2 look like they have the longer tine, but do they? Help. ( I also use them for my 5-string.)
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Jerry Hayes
From:
Virginia Beach, Va.
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| Posted 2 Jan 2009 6:20 am |
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Ronnie, I hope that's a five string steel you're talking about and not the dreaded "B" word....JH in Va.
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