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07-27-2011, 12:05 PM
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for sake!!!
Why do guitar manufacturers persist in naming their models after physics laboratory part requisition numbers?????
Come on!! Takamene ENT10c or Tan1tc, Martin D28v, Taylor 814c...? This is your chance to rename some great guitars! Take a leaf out of the car manufacturers catalogues.... Thunderbird, Lotus Elan, Spider, Boxer, how about the guitars. For sake, coffee machines are named better!! Come on... what have you got? Last edited by rlouie; 07-27-2011 at 12:20 PM. Reason: masking of text/curse words using symbols instead of letters (ie. ****, @#$%, etc… is not allowed 
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07-27-2011, 12:14 PM
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Well, why don't you try some handmade English guitars: Brook name all theirs after rivers in Devon (so far I've got a Tamar, and its tributary, a Tavy, plus a Lyn). Or how about Fylde, with its Shakespeare references?
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07-27-2011, 12:17 PM
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Taylor "Lucerne"? Gibson "Previa"? Guild "Firenza"? Takamine "Prius"?  Sorry, but I'll think I'll put the 'leaf' back into the car manufacturer's catalog.
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07-27-2011, 12:17 PM
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Some of my favorite incomprehensible guitar names come from Goodall and Collings. And I like both manufacturers... I have one of each.
Goodall MhGCMh Collings CW MhA - VARN CW Mahogany I prefer names like Strat, Tele...... or even, D18, D28
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07-27-2011, 12:23 PM
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I don't know about the auto companies...it seems like they are trying to teach us the alphabet three letters at a time; e.g. STS, CTS, WRX, GTO, etc. I wish they would go back to giving their models proper names.
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07-27-2011, 12:24 PM
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Martin D-100 Bankruptcy?
Martin D-28 Ubiquitous? Martin 000-28 Comfortable? Just a thought . . .
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NOT from Queen - he's much cleverer  I am English, so are all my spellings Two guitars I'm happy with . . . 
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07-27-2011, 12:34 PM
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And here I thought this was a thread about Japanese rice wine.
 In Martin's case, the "D" refers to "dreadnaught"..the actual guitar design. Why "dreadnaught"? Way back, Martin classified their designs based on how large the guitar was, beginning with the "0" model. (Pronounced "naught"). From there it went up to the "00" ("double naught"), "000" ("triple naught"), and finally the "0000", which would have been called the quadruple naught I guess, if the British Navy had not just come out with the worlds largest war ship, the battleship HMS Dreadnaught. Somebody at Martin had the idea of calling the largest guitar in their line the "Dreadnaught" rather than the "0000"...and Guitar history was made. The "28" to the cost of the instrument back when it came out. (I've read). Hence, "28"=28$ "45"=45$. Etc. They could have changed the name every time they increased the price, but I think the original names work just fine.
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07-27-2011, 01:06 PM
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jeff, I normally don't bother with posting corrections, but you have so many "dreadNAUGHTS" I just have to respond ... Martin have never manufactured a "dreadnaught", what they make is a DREADNOUGHT
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07-27-2011, 01:18 PM
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(And apparently my computer spell check doesn't either.)
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07-27-2011, 01:30 PM
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07-27-2011, 01:35 PM
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07-27-2011, 02:08 PM
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Why worry if it sounds good and plays well?
It's not like they are called "Adolf Hitler" or "Ghengis Khan", or even "Rupert Murdoch"......
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07-27-2011, 02:18 PM
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If you go to the Martin website and type in "dreadnaught" you get zero hits for "dreadnaught".
You do however get multiple hits for "dreadnought". So we can probably assume that they are covering up the tracks of any bloopers committed by dyslexic proof readers in the 1950's ...
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