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"playing in" a new guitar
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Miguel de Maria
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Joined: Oct. 20 2003
From: Phoenix, AZ
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RE: "playing in" a new guitar (in reply to PacoPaella)
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This is the kind of thing that would be difficult, if not impossible, to measure quantitatively. Sound quality, after all, is subjective. I play a Vicente Carillo blanca, 2003, and my friend Gaetano brought over a 2004 a few months ago to compare. He wanted to see how my guitar had changed over the year of intensive playing. What struck me was not how mine had changed, but how incredibly similiar the sounds were! This is a bit of proof that good luthiers DO know what they are doing! The guitars were twins. My guitar seemed to have a bit more richness and brilliance in the high end, picado and leads, but in other ways they were almost indistinguishable. Personally, I haven't slightest idea how people could tell that their guitar has significantly improved. How do they know it's not just that they haven't learned more about how to draw out the resources of their instrment? It's natural to learn more the more you play. And, how do you tell how a guitar is going to sound when you play it, from listening to an mp3 which records a guitar that is miced up _in front_ of the guitar? Don't ask me! But on the other hand, my ears don't seem to be particularly discerning, either...
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Date Dec. 29 2004 17:56:26
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