Jim Opfer -> RE: How heavy? (Oct. 26 2004 22:14:43)
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Hi Pat, I appreciate your observations. Thing is, Ive had various guitars, Gerundino, Conde, Maldonado, Stephen Hill, Bernal etc. But it was only when I got my Ramirez that I realise how light weight it was. It made me wonder, how heavy should a guitar be? Makers will tell you about the finish, the wood used on the top, the back and sides, the choice of machine heads, or might be you'd like pegs, but they can't tell you how much they design it to weigh. I'm convinced that there is a right weight. If too heavy, the guitar dies. If too light, it responds as you describe. My own thinking is that every guitar using standard strings will generate only so much energy, there's probably some way of quantifying the value. If the guitar is too heavy, it stands to reason that this energy will be swamped to a degree by the mass of the instrument, so there has to be a balance, an optimum weight. That's why I ask for a range of guitar weights just to see what it throws up. Cheers Jim
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