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Old 09-09-2011, 10:45 AM
Glennwillow Glennwillow is offline
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I have heard Tommy say that the biggest reason he uses that "Mouse" Maton is because of the pickup system. I am rarely pleased with what a piezo pickup sounds like on a steel string guitar, but the system in Tommy's "Mouse" Maton sounds surprisingly good. He demonstrated this to us in detail at a workshop I attended. And Tommy likes fairly high stage sound levels and that system with the soundhole plug does not feed back.

However, he has used the "Mouse" on a lot of his recordings without the use of the pickup, so that suggests that Tommy's skill can pull some darn good sounds out of that guitar. As Danny notes, though, I can see where Tommy would be interested in finding some guitars that sound better acoustically, and the David Taylor guitars may well fill that niche. Tommy also commented to me, personally, that he felt that Collings was making the best guitars today, but that comment was made about 4 years ago, I would imagine well before he would have discovered the DT Guitars.

I was fascinated to read Bill's comment, post #7. What a great encounter.

Regards, Glenn
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