Ricardo -> RE: "Guitar needs to be played" myth? (Feb. 3 2008 20:18:41)
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Would you try this for a negra (indian rosewood)? When I first received my HSL F03, it had that freshly built smell even though it was built 2 years before I bought it. The smell has slowly disappeared. If I did give this a try, how wet should the towel be? Where would you put it exactly? How long should the wet cloth be left in? doesn't hurt to try. Keep a dry polish cloth over the sound hole. I just get a paper towel wet and squeeze it out so it is damp. Then keep it in the case with the guitar. I check it, and depending on how much the case lets air in and out, the paper towel will dry out. When it is dry, I get it wet again, and keep checking. After a few days, the guitar smells real nice, at least if you like the smell of whatever wood. I like cypress and maple much more than Indian Rosewood smell. For some folks talking about the guitar changing over time myth, like it is psychological or your individual playing changes, sure that happens. I would say your playing changes more quick than the guitar itself. My personal experience and feeling on the matter is involving instruments that ARE NOT MINE. Meaning I played a friend's guitar for just a little while. Then 2 years later I tried it again and it was a different instrument all together in terms of it's sound. It had NOTHING to do with my own playing technique on that instrument, I spent no significant time adapting to it. It was just a very noticeable change of the instrument itself. Sometimes I have noticed a guitar getting a better sound AND becomes easier to play. And this has happened to me with more than one friend/student and their guitars. And yeah, I have noticed how guitars owned by friends/students that do NOT get played by their owners very much (again NOT ME), that the instruments do NOT shape up with time. So from my point of view, there really is something to it. About real science involved, Ramirez talks in his book about the crystalization of the finish and how a good player helps activate this process or speeds it up. Beyond that it still seems mysterious to me. Ricardo
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