If anyone is contemplating selling her or his Lon Dubh, please give me a PM.
I used to own one and now have some situations approaching for which it would be ideal.
I’m entertaining the idea of ordering a sort of custom version: African blackwood and silver.
But if there’s a would-be seller with a decent price, I could be convinced to settle for the standard brass.
“I like to see a musician at work. I like to see what happens when they make a mistake and how they get out of it. And that’s when you can tell a [great] musician. It doesn’t matter to me that a musician makes mistakes; that can lead somewhere. But how do you recover from the mistake? That’s how you see someone really on the ball.”
Robert Fripp, interviewed by Dave Mandl on February 5, 1991; originally appearing in Reflex magazine
That’s why I sold it; I had no use personally at the time because I was only playing at sessions. I went with Abell instead (I’m a wood guy).
But now, with very high quality microphones capturing my every breath, the extra special sweetness of the Lon Dubh would come in handy on some arrangements.
Thanks. Though I’m in communication with him to make one out of materials he doesn’t normally use: blackwood and silver. It would cost more, but would certainly be unique.