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RE: Evaluating soundboards
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BarkellWH
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RE: Evaluating soundboards (in reply to Shawn Brock)
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I'm not saying that a guitar shouldn't look great, but some of the best I have ever played looked the worse. And I'm not saying that I'm some great player, but damn it when I own a guitar I play it, not just hang it on the wall or leave it in its case... You are in good company with Willie Nelson, whose Martin N-20 (which he named "Trigger") is probably the most beat-up guitar (with a hole worn in the soundboard) still being played today. Willie refuses to have it repaired, claiming that to do so would be tantamount to repairing the crack in the Liberty Bell. Cheers, Bill
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Date May 29 2012 14:42:49
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Shawn Brock
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From: Louisville KY
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RE: Evaluating soundboards (in reply to Anders Eliasson)
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F lattice braced guitars... I own one and never cared for it in the least. When I was playing a lot of classical I thought that if a guitarist was hooked up on needing volume that double tops were superior to lattice braced instruments. It seems that double tops still maintain somewhat of a semblance of what a classical guitar is supposed to sound like. That's not to say that they sound as good tonally as a traditional box, but they do have more tone than lattice braced guitars IMO... I have to wonder when classical musicians will be smart enough to start using microphones and just play the instrument which sounds best. I'll never say that I wish a guitar had less volume, but there's still this thing called tone, and it seems some people forget about it. It don't matter how much volume a guitar has if the sound it puts out is crappy... Some folks need to just go with carbon fiber instruments and forget about it... As a man who's not a builder I can say this. Most luthiers won't become wealthy, they may live comfortably, but most won't ever have the money of a pro ball player. Making instruments is such a personal thing... Its just like the music made on an instrument is such a personal thing. You have to build your heart and soul and nothing else. Not everyone will like or catch on to "your sound", and that's fine. It don't mean that your product is any less than anyone else's. In the end you have to replicate your spirit with wood, and if you don't do that then the hell with you. LOL Its okay to try to accommodate a player's wants or needs, just as long as they are inside the template which is your foundation for building. Your experiences as a craftsman have given you a bed of knowledge that us players will never understand, and you build based on your experience. Every guitar will always be somewhat of an experiment and that's okay, but some things are clear to you the builder, and you will always use those bits of information. So just do what you do people and remember that change isn't always a good thing. If you want to build some lattice braced or double tops, there is nothing wrong with that. If you hate them, then don't build them though! All of you guys are to good of builders to question the foundation of your instruments! And that's just my Yankee .20...
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Date May 30 2012 1:01:56
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