[Pine]

Yesterday I has a first lesson with a guitar teacher. He said he likes to play student's guitars a little to assess the setup. He played my Blackbird L13, for a bit, and said "Great tone!". I told him it was a steel string guitar strung with ball-end nylon. He holds the guitar out and looks at it carefully, and asks, "I've never heard of Blackbird. What kind of wood is this?"

I had to laugh. He didn't say "It has it's own voice", or any of the other comments I've seen folks make about CF guitars. Really make me wonder just how much our preconceptions determine what we hear.

To me, it just sounds like a guitar. A darn nice one!