Guildedagain
Enlightened Member
Picking her up at 9:30p at the airport tonight, just a few hours of messless solitude left, lol.
The closer you get to "the end of the vacation", the more precious time gets and last night I had the definitive acoustic guitar showdown, armed with my best picks.
I kept a notebook nearby, from start to finish on every guitar, like the D5CE "It's a tank, Rosewood reeks of cheap whorehouse but better, etc."
A pile of Guilds and some MIJ dreads and an Art & Lutherie "Spruce" Dread from the 90's that's actually quite good.
The MIJ dreads culminate with an early 70's Matao high end model with factory gold Grover Milk Bottle tuners, solid quite possibly Brazilian 3 pc back that sounds like Brazilian when tapped, solid Rosewood sides, great Spruce top.
The Matao in fact is a "sonic weapon" as described in my notes, has a "Mean G chord" meaning it kicks butt at loud hillbilly Bluegrass guitar music, and I did play it at one last summer when I bought/refurbed this guitar. it was exceptional. My luthier neighbor guitar buddy next door wanted to swap guitars during the jam, the Matao for his 50's Martin D-18 and I said no, I was afraid he wanted to trade straight across and I paid $100 for the Matao at a pawn shop.
So what happened, who won?
The closer you get to "the end of the vacation", the more precious time gets and last night I had the definitive acoustic guitar showdown, armed with my best picks.
I kept a notebook nearby, from start to finish on every guitar, like the D5CE "It's a tank, Rosewood reeks of cheap whorehouse but better, etc."
A pile of Guilds and some MIJ dreads and an Art & Lutherie "Spruce" Dread from the 90's that's actually quite good.
The MIJ dreads culminate with an early 70's Matao high end model with factory gold Grover Milk Bottle tuners, solid quite possibly Brazilian 3 pc back that sounds like Brazilian when tapped, solid Rosewood sides, great Spruce top.
The Matao in fact is a "sonic weapon" as described in my notes, has a "Mean G chord" meaning it kicks butt at loud hillbilly Bluegrass guitar music, and I did play it at one last summer when I bought/refurbed this guitar. it was exceptional. My luthier neighbor guitar buddy next door wanted to swap guitars during the jam, the Matao for his 50's Martin D-18 and I said no, I was afraid he wanted to trade straight across and I paid $100 for the Matao at a pawn shop.
So what happened, who won?
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