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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
As Jerry Seinfeld once said, “Wood is good.” And one of the most important places to start when choosing a guitar is tone wood (shape is also important and we’ll cover that another time). But where to begin? How do you know if you want a spruce top or cedar? Mahogany back and sides or Rosewood? What the heck is Ovangkol? Is there really such a think as Cocobolo?
Luckily, Taylor and Martin have created pages on their websites describing the qualities of the the many tone woods available for acoustics. These pages can be very useful when choosing the wood for your acoustic. Definitely worth checking out.
Tone (Taylor Guitars)
Tone Wood (Martin Guitar)
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
As we fretbasers are well aware, the quest for the perfect guitar never stops - it just expands. Even when you find the perfect dreadnought for strumming 70’s folk rock, you realize that you need something different when you would rather play some Robert Johnson.
For fingerstyle, there is quite a lot to like about the Taylor GC7. First, it is part of Taylor’s Grand Concert series - small bodied guitars with a short-scale neck like a 000 and 1 3/4″ at the nut like an OM. Most alluring is the solid Cedar top. To us, cedar doesn’t sound as warm as spruce but has a punch that is excellent for fingerstyle. We also love the style with the abalone rosette and ivoroid binding. Most importantly, it sounded awfully good when we played it in the store.
If you own one or have played one, please share your views on it in the comments.
Official Site for Taylor GC7 (Taylor Guitars)
Taylor GC7 Review (PDF from Acoustic Guitar Magazine)
Taylor GC7 Product Page (Musician’s Friend)
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Every year representatives of 100 music magazines from around the globe vote on and present awards at the Musikmesse International Press Awards (MIPA). These are big awards and would be even bigger if more people knew how to pronounce Musikmesse. The winners were recently announced in each key guitar category. Click on for the list of winners.
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
With gas prices approaching $5 a gallon here in California, when we think of conservation we usually think of oil. However, the use of wood normally used for guitar-making (like rosewood and mahogany) for other purposes like Japanese home-building has severely limited the wood available for acoustic guitars. Last year the New York Times explored this problem in their article entitled “Saving Trees is Music to Guitar Makers’ Ears.”
According to Bob Taylor of Taylor Guitars, “Adirondack spruce is unavailable. Mahogany was so plentiful it was a commodity. Now only specialty cutters are getting it, and the prices have gone through the roof. All these things
happened just in my lifetime.” It is awfully scary to think that some of the wood used to create classic guitars may not be available at reasonable prices in the near future. I tried to do my part by buying a Martin SWOMGT last year from Martin’s new sustainable wood series (although admittedly I also thought it sounded sweet).
Saving Trees is Music to Guitar Makers’ Ears (from the New York Times)
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