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Old 03-01-2012, 02:45 PM
Glennwillow Glennwillow is offline
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I agree that a particular builder can make cedar or spruce tops sound very similar. On the other hand, if you take a group of Taylor guitars in a particular model line, say GC, GA or GS, for example, then you can hear the difference between cedar and spruce tops quite clearly. If you compare a GC7 (cedar) to a GC8 (spruce), both over EIR, the guitars are essentially identical except for the top woods. And there is a noticeable difference in sound.

If a person were to go to the Dream Guitars website and listen to Al Pettaway play spruce topped guitars and then cedar topped guitars, you can generally hear a difference on those recordings, as well. But not always.... The strings being used can make quite a difference, 80/20 being brighter than PB. For example, my Olson SJ (cedar/EIR) with PB strings sounds quite dark but with 80/20 strings, it has quite a bit of treble sparkle.

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