2 Apr
2013
2 Apr
'13
4:36 p.m.
On 04/02/2013 04:15 PM, Daniel Worth wrote:
I actually like the sound of the guitars I have made in Quebec
that are
sub $500 over some more expensive acoustics.
I've played and owned a large variety of high end, and low end, gear,
and beyond a certain price point it isn't about sound anymore. I have
a Gibson Les Paul Custom worth about $2700 and I never take it out of
the case because I'm afraid It'll get scratched, that guitar is a
piece of art, my other electric was a $600 strat copy I got 15 years
ago and it still sounds and plays amazing. I also owned a $1500 Taylor
814ce and I prefer my $300 Epiphone. My brother in-law plays custom
built guitars int the $4000 range and I can till out play him on a
pawn shop guitar any day of the week. Given the choice between a
functional great sounding instrument that I can drag to a gig or up
around a campfire or the worlds most lusted after instrument I'd go
with the budget gear and enjoy the hell out of it, I bet no one ever
got drunk around a camp fire deep in the Rocky Mountains with a
Stradivarius and had the best time of their life.
Generally I agree. I was honestly surprised to find the sweet spot for
classical guitars to be so high in price. I expected machining to have
gotten so much better in the last decades that factory built low-medium
end classical guitars would hold up sound wise to hand built classicals.
But to my dismay I found it not to be true. For campfire trips I still
take my 250 euro yamaha classical though..
Flo
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Florian Paul Schmidt
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