I must be deaf or lucky. I've played a lot of guitars. Many of them pretty high end and lightly built. I play all over the neck. Not all that well, mind you, but I'm not just playing cowboy chords. I have, of course, run into "dead" notes on a few guitars, but nothing so severe that it couldn't be compensated for pretty effectively and pretty easily. I'm sure there are guitars out there, even very good ones, that have notes that just go stone dead, and can't be worked around, but I'm not running into them. This is an evasive mystery for me, right up there with the magical guitar that "blows away everything else I've ever played" (typically someone's most recent purchase
). Sometimes I feel like I should work in a guitar shop in my retirement so I can experience these great mysteries and rare finds!
Tim