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Seagull Entourage Rustic
I constantly find myself impressed by this guitar. I won it in a competition about a year ago and I'm glad I did because I don't think it woud be on my radar other wise. Anyone looking at a cheap dred should definitely consider this instrument.
Do any of you guys own one? Or have you had similar experiences with Seagull? I feel like they blow competitors out of the water. Here's a little video of it I put together. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlCHZrn8wwU
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Thanks for sharing.
Seagulls including the Entourage offerings are impressive guitars. |
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Lots of Seagull love here...
I am very impressed with Seagulls, and am very close to picking one up as my first guitar. I keep going back and forth between the Entourage Rustic and traditional S6. The only thing stopping me from picking either one is that I seem to be having trouble playing dreads in general, so I'm now auditioning the Entourage Mini Jumbo as well.
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Nice win. You'll find a bit of 'Gull love here.
Jerry |
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I find the mini jumbo MUCH more comfortable than the dreadnought. The appearance wouldn't indicate this but the narrower waste and the shallower body make it more comfortable to me. Give it a try. I think you will agree. Besides dreadnoughts are boring to look at.
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My wife tells me it's funny for her to watch my evolution in guitar playing over the last 7 months. The S6 in my sig was my first guitar... a total noob at the age of 41. And I really enjoyed the thing for a while... when I first brought it home last August and through 4 months of lessons.
As time went on however, and I began to get better and better, and then got to sample other guitars, I started to notice things that bothered me... the 1.8" nut and chunky neck past the 7th fret, the weight balance (a tad neck heavy), the fact that it slides on my leg under heavy strumming, and that 'laminate' tone. And the dreadnought shape was not helping my bad right shoulder any. I'm one of those detail oriented people that can pick out nuances in everything. And when I started sampling the all solid wood Martins, and especially that Performance Artist neck, the limitations of my S6 became clearer and I wanted something more. I think the S6 is an 'okay' guitar, but not a great guitar. And I play my particular Martin way better as well. I've played the Mini Jumbo and didn't like the sound at all. Not even a little. The S6 blows it away. But if I were doing it all over and had known what I know now, 7 months into my journey, I would without question choose an all solid wood Eastman in the $550-$650 range before Seagull. One man's opinion.
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That is a fine guitar. I have liked Seagulls for decades... my favorites are the Entourage Rustic and the S6 Slim. I think you'll find Seagulls get a lot of respect around here. Great guitars for the money.
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Yeah....dreadnoughts simply bore my socks off.
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Or a solid wood Seagull. Delighted with the '99 S-6 in my sig.
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As a guy who has a both a "Performing Artist" Martin and a Seagull dreadnought, I have to agree that with you they do play differently. The string spacing is exactly the same on both guitars (2 3/16 @ bridge) but the nut is wider on the Gull by a little bit outside of both E strings and the neck is definitely "chunkier", so the actual playing experience is different, bu not radically so, IMHO. I usually carry both my Martin and my Seagull with me to performance so that I can keep one in alternate tuning and not have to waste time on stage. Switching back and forth between them hasn't presented me with many problems.
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Perhaps. I just have never ever seen one or had the chance to play one in the shops I've visited. The GC and SAs in the NYC metro area mostly stock the S6 and Entourage MJ.
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Heh heh ... Parlours to Jumbos ... got to believe that a Martin decked out like that is going to be attractive no matter what the body size.
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