Went to Denmark street to drool over guitars yesterday and ended up trying a few guitars:
- Fender Paramount (P1?) - hmmm, attractive guitar but not for me
- Taylor 700 and 800 series something or another - lovely looking but too bright for my current tastes
- Maton (beautiful!)
- Avalon (amazing)
- Lowden (WOW!)
- Martin D28, D35, D18 and 000-18 and another I can't remember
Sorry, can't remember the models of most. I loved the Maton and the Lowden was on another planet. But the stand out for me and my tastes was either the D18 or the 000-18.
I'm torn though, the 000-18 felt more comfortable but the D18 had something about it...they both sound gorgeous to my ears. Lovely, lovely guitars.
Am I missing anything or discounting a guitar that I should be looking at?
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it's always tricky questions like this, cos it kinda depends on what you want and the sort of music you play. For me, even for strummy strummy stuff, I prefer a more balanced sound, so I'd probably go for the 000, even more so as I play a lot of fingerstyle as well. I don't really do the single note kinda flatpicking. However, if you do a lot of flatpicking, then I'd go for the D in a heartbeat.
However, you won't go far wrong with either, I've yet to play a Martin I didn't like.
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OK, they don't play those exact models, but the character of their sounds is pretty illustrative of the D and OOO sizes.
Or alternatively you could end up with both… I didn't mean to buy a Gibson dreadnought *and* a Gibson orchestra-size, it just somehow happened .
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@Johnspreyer, nice idea!
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I'd always go for an 000, or an OM.
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The MTV Unplugged has a lot to answer for, including Rod Stewart (sp) Unplugged WTF.
Just people milking they're back catalogue - on acoustic - don't mean they're 'acoustic players'.
As for Claptons (acoustic) tone - ??? I only hear a 'plugged in' tone.
Sure he's big in electric circles - ok
I'd like to see him )only him) walk on stage with a Greenfield or Michi Matsuda (read cutting edge instrument) and play half an hour (or more) of original music - from now.
rant over
And I think he could pretty comfortably fill 30 mins of originals!
Swapped my HD35 for a similarly specced 000 - (he wanted more oomph. I wanted less - win:win !
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BTW I meant original 'new' music - remember what Michael Hedges was doing on acoustic guitar over 30 yrs ago ? - wonder what he'd be doing if HE was still alive ?.
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odd you thought that. I only played it once but I seem to recall thnking your HD35 was a pretty well balanced guitar.
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