Brendan MacRae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> suggested:
> I have a Takamine mini jumbo that cost maybe $250 at
{slaps forehead} Right, Takamine. I don't find most
of them as _comfortable_ as my Yamahas, but they don't
suck. The Takamine I want is the double-neck (6 and 12)
hanging up in a music store a few miles up the road from
my house, but it's a couple price-brackets above what
we're talking about now ... *sigh*
I think of Taks as 'not aging well', but I have to keep
reminding myself that guitars owned by a street musician
who played in the rain and snow (he's since moved to
indoor gigs) aren't a valid sample for determining that.
> Guild makes some nice cheaper acoustics
IMNSHO, not as good as Yamaha, Seagull, Washburn, or
Takamine. They feel -- and sound -- "clunky" to me,
though they may be good for lead parts played softly
into a microphone. I found them to get plenty loud
when needed, but loud wasn't howthey sounded best.
(But it's been several years since I've touched one,
so I dunno, maybe they've gotten better?)
> Other than that, Epiphone, Gibson,
> Alvarez and Yamaha also all make some decent guitars
> in your $ range.
Oh, Alvarez does make something in that range after
all? That's a bit of good news. And Gibson?! I'd
have thought those to be out of reach. (Give me a
moment to fondly recall somebody's Gibson Hummingbird
that I got to play for a while.)
> I'd stay away from the Fenders, every
> one I've played seemed cheap and tinny.
I'm surprised but I'll have to cop to not having relevant
firsthand experience with 'em. The ones I've played have
been electric (noticeably better than my Hondo, not as
nice as my brother's PRS), classical (my Fender classical
guitar is actually pretty darned good), or _vintage_
(the Fender 12-string for the actor playing ... uh, either
Guthrie or Seeger, I forget which, in _Forrest_Gump_, which
I wasn't supposed to touch but there's lots of boing downtime
for extras on a movie set and it was right there and another
extra sitting next to me, and the other prop guitar, and,
well ... Hey _that_ Fender was pretty nice, though it could've
used some care from a tech.
> If you can afford a little
> more I'd wait and take a look at a Taylor. Every one
> I've played are simply great, beautiful tone, low
> action, and exceptionally well crafted. Better then
> some Martins I've played, in fact, the lower end
> Martin's simply suck...don't be fooled by the brand.
Taylors are nice, but not as nice (again, IMNSHO) as Alvarez;
I like them maybe a teensy bit more than my Yamahas, depending
on my mood. I'm not a big Martin fan either -- I agree that
the low-end ones leave something to be desired, and the better
ones sound great for other people but don't sing as well in my
hands as a Yamaha, Alvarez, Gibson, Taylor, or 1960s Fender.
-- Glenn
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