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I spent most of June traveling, with trips to Colorado, Norway, and England. I wasn’t without guitars for the entire month--while in Colorado I had access to my brother’s mahogany Martin DM from the mid-2000s, and I took my Journey Overhead travel guitar to England. But I missed my Guilds.
So which instrument got my attention when I got home, getting almost all of my playing time for the first week or so after my return?
I bought my 2012 F47R at LMG IV, after I kept finding myself drawn back to it at the petting zoo.Technically, it’s a B-stock, as I believe were all the instruments Guild made available for purchase at the event. But I’ve never found anything wrong with it. There must have been some reason this 2012 guitar was still hanging around New Hartford in September 2013, but I’ve never been able to see anything.
The guitar has a wonderful, sweet, articulate voice that makes it terrific for my rudimentary fingerstyle playing. It’s true that the guitar lacks the full, lush overtones of some rosewood guitars (and that may be why it was held back--the sound is closer to my 2012 D50 Standard than it is to my 2014 D50 Traditional). This makes it a bit weaker as a strummer, but for fingerstyle it works very well. I strongly suspect it will record better than a more overtone-rich guitar, something that I plan to put to the test in the not-too-distant future. Its also very comfortable to play, more so than a dreadnought (not to mention a jumbo).
Playing the F47R is a reminder that there are some gaping holes in CMG’s Guild USA lineup. Hopefully, this will change under Yamaha’s ownership. In the meantime, I’m going to continue to play my F47R and cherish it not just for the pleasure playing it brings me but also for the close connection it represents to the Guild of a decade ago.
So which instrument got my attention when I got home, getting almost all of my playing time for the first week or so after my return?
I bought my 2012 F47R at LMG IV, after I kept finding myself drawn back to it at the petting zoo.Technically, it’s a B-stock, as I believe were all the instruments Guild made available for purchase at the event. But I’ve never found anything wrong with it. There must have been some reason this 2012 guitar was still hanging around New Hartford in September 2013, but I’ve never been able to see anything.
The guitar has a wonderful, sweet, articulate voice that makes it terrific for my rudimentary fingerstyle playing. It’s true that the guitar lacks the full, lush overtones of some rosewood guitars (and that may be why it was held back--the sound is closer to my 2012 D50 Standard than it is to my 2014 D50 Traditional). This makes it a bit weaker as a strummer, but for fingerstyle it works very well. I strongly suspect it will record better than a more overtone-rich guitar, something that I plan to put to the test in the not-too-distant future. Its also very comfortable to play, more so than a dreadnought (not to mention a jumbo).
Playing the F47R is a reminder that there are some gaping holes in CMG’s Guild USA lineup. Hopefully, this will change under Yamaha’s ownership. In the meantime, I’m going to continue to play my F47R and cherish it not just for the pleasure playing it brings me but also for the close connection it represents to the Guild of a decade ago.
