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Hi guys, checked out GC with a family member who's starting out on guitar and wanted to upgrade from an all-lammie guitar he had picked up a week before. Anyways, after trying out a bunch of guitars in and around the <$500 range we settled on a Big Baby Taylor, a Yamaha FG-375S and an all-solid Spruce/Hog Epiphone Masterbuilt that had been severely reduced from the $900 list price to about four bills.

Anyways, to make a long story short we all agreed that we liked the projection and bass of the epi but the Yamaha sounded exceedingly better to our ears as we played it. It's got a solid spruce top and laminated RW back and sides and very cool sunburst but the tone was what sold us. It was warm, with just the right amount of projection w/o being overpowering making it really great for singing. We were still wavering back and forth between the masterbilt and the Yamaha and the GC salesperson even was kind enough to put on some new elixirs for us on the masterbilt but the yamaha won out everytime.

Anyways, just wanted to give everybody a heads-up on a great find! Also, we played the new model they took out for us after we had bought the floor model and it didnt sound as good as the one we had bought. I guess that goes to show that it pays to play first.