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Originally Posted by Play2PraiseHim
The best Hummingbirds other than the original early 60's models are the ones being made today in Bozeman.
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Pretty much any Bozeman Hummingbird should have been made with standard single X braced with scalloped tone bars, solid sitka tops, solid woods B&S.
The ones you want to avoid are the Norlin era acoustics. They were double X and sounded pretty dead. I owned a Norlin era 'Bird and it was my main player for 30 years. But when I learned about the double X brace pattern...It explained a lot of things. Bozeman from the start have been pretty good guitars. I've never played a Bozeman dud. A lot of variance, yes, and many sound livelier than others, but good guitars. Here's my '64 just for kicks:
