Hi!!
Does anybody know which bongos is Ringo playing in 'And I Love Her'?? I mean: which brand??
BTW: George seems to have changed the G string recently (=I mean: during 'AILH' footage for
A Hard Day's Night in March 1964) on his Ramirez, judging from the pictures (=I enclose one of them...)
Another interesting point is that George starts his solo with the hand closer to guitar's hole than the very place where he ends it. This is due to the playing position, as he needs to bring the arm to the right to play the lower strings because the guitar is resting on his left leg (=i.e.: in 'Segovia's classical position' although standing...) nearly in vertical position...
On arpeggios, he 'raises' his left hand fingers on every downstroke (=George always played downstokes with his right hand with very few exceptions, like the four notes which begin 'All My Loving' solo...), and even he accompanies himself with sllght head movements on every note of the arpeggio...
There is another picture where George is playing in 'Segovia's classical position' (=this time sitting): one of the pictures taken in March 1964 at his London flat shared with Ringo during Astrid Kirchherr's visit...
I'm also enclosing Ramirez labels like the one at George's guitar. I beg your pardon for the quality of George's one as is taken directly from tv screen!!
I had my conference at Ramirez shop in Madrid last Saturday May the 9th. and these were a few of the topics I covered. I finally could find that his Ramirez was bought at Ramirez shop (=I enclose a picture of the shop at those days) in Madrid by Klaus Voormann in May 1963, during his stop at Madrid on the way of his return back from Tenerife to Germany, after being in Tenerife with Paul, George, Ringo and Astrid for some holidays as you probably know already. I thought you could be interested. I apologize for my poor English!! :-/
Best!!
Xose
