Subj : acoustic guitars, was hello
To : Jim Haight
From : Richard Webb
Date : Tue Mar 20 2012 12:31 am
HI Jim, and welcome!
On Mon 2012-Mar-19 17:50, Jim Haight (1:116/80) wrote to All:
JH> Hello folks. I am new to this forum but not new to guitar. I have
JH> been reading the "threads" and thought I would share some reviews. I
JH> have played quite a few acoustics lately in the search for the most
JH> guitar for the buck. Kind of like getting a fantastic bottle of wine
JH> for under ten dollars. I do have a friend in Baltimore who has a
JH> small guitar shop and he has an interesting variety of boxes to
JH> sell. His high end guitars are Larravie (sp?) which I absolutely
JH> love but need to save up for. He has a line of Hohners which I was
JH> impressed with as he gave me this nice gem of a dreadnought to play.
JH> I don't remember the model but it was black and, get this, all
JH> ebony. Ebony back, sides and top. It was under $400.00 and stunning.
JH> It had light gauge strings on it and crispy highs and loud bass with
JH> a great balance between. I do think it could tolerate heavier gauge
JH> strings for the double pickers. I think he said it was made in Korea
JH> but I am not sure. Other than this, he had a Simon and Patrick 12
JH> string that was under $400.00 that was also delightful. Another
JH> bargain that I am seriously considering is a Luna Trinity parlor
JH> guitar. It is also just under $400.00 and it has a cutaway with
JH> electronics. Musician's Friend has these and I want something of
JH> that size. The soundhole is an interesting shape with three leaves
JH> with abalone inlay. You should Google it and take a look. Oh well,
Sounds interesting. i play bass drums and my primary is
keyboard, but I have a nice Martin 6 string, I play Martin
Marquis lights on it, because I fingerpick. iT sounds good
in front of a microphone.
I find that even among supposedly identical guitars that i
want to play the one I'm going to buy before I buy it, minor differences in
manufacturing tolerances, etc.
I remember buying this Martin at gc in NEw ORleans. I went
in the store to buy a patch cable or something stupid,
started browsing at acoustics, found these Martins on sale
for $800 and started to play the different ones on that rack with the
discounted price, found one I fell in love with. I came back the enxt day to
find it gone, after the guyd' told me i couldn't put discount items on layaway,
only to find
out soembody else had put the exact one i wanted on layaway. I played others,
and found one I liked as well. WAs a b'day present from my lady, and I'd
already been hearing that
guitar in my mind's ear on some of my original songs when I
recorded them.
Had a nice alvarez 12 string before Katrina took it away
from me. I'd played a few twelve strings at a friend's
music store back in Iowa and fell in love with this
particular Alvarez. Unbeknownst to me my lady put it on
layaway, and when I'd go over there to do mastering for a
client in his recording studio (I did tracking and mixing but not mastering) my
lady would put some money on it. She woke me
up midmorning one morning to present me with that 12 string, mErry Christmas
<g..
I was so looking forward to recording some of my originals
with the 12 doing fills and some lead, with the Martin
carrying rhythm, when Katrina took out house in Slidell,
Louisiana. I kept the martin just because i took it with me when we deployed
to University HOspital in NEw ORleans to
provide communications during and after the storm. I took
the Martin just to have something to do to kill time during
downtime.
Glad I did!
