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10-26-2010, 03:18 PM
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Has This Ever Happened to You?
Has anyone ever bought an acoustic instrument that they did not care for the tone and have it go through a positive tonal transformation in five or more years?
How would you describe this positive tonal transformation? Did you later sell the instrument and why? Thank you in advance, I am doing this research as a part of my thesis in conjunction with the completion of a former terminal academic retrospective degree.
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10-26-2010, 03:21 PM
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Sort of...
At first, I loved my 1998 Taylor 914C (my first Taylor). As I got used to it, I found it a tad shrill for my tastes. About five years in, the bottom filled out nicely, but by that time, I was on a quest for something with fuller mids... and I was suffering from what I describe as "Taylor fatigue". 
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10-26-2010, 05:02 PM
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10-26-2010, 05:47 PM
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Building a mass produced guitar is a crap shoot. It's not like cooking, where all the right ingredients always produce good results. I, probably like most here, have played some real high end duds, along with some overachieving econo-boxes. Ordering things on-line is very popular, and you don't always have lots of options close to home. Ever wonder why there are so many used guitars for sale at MF?
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10-26-2010, 05:49 PM
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10-26-2010, 05:52 PM
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The opposite. I have bought guitars whose sound I liked but over the years, my taste changed, heard other guitars, got to where I could economically afford better, and I would trade for something I liked better and start the ugly cycle over again. Never really noted any changes except those I made in terms of strings, picks, set-up, and my own abilities.
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10-26-2010, 07:31 PM
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Almost all online purchases have a 48hr trial policy. I have bought one guitar online and one thru the internet, both with trial periods. Kept them both and still love them over 10y later. If I had not, I would gladly have returned them and paid the $40-50 shipping as cost of trial.
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10-26-2010, 07:59 PM
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I hope that's not contagious :-)
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10-26-2010, 08:06 PM
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This is true. I would think that the average person this happens to ends up selling long before 5 years. I bought a Recording King RDC57 sight unseen that was a total "dud". I sat on it for awhile and luckily ended up trading it for a much better sounding guitar a few years later. It sounded no better when I traded it. The thing weighed a ton.  The guy who wanted my RK claimed to be a big Recording King fan, so I guess it was "all good".
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10-26-2010, 08:20 PM
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Sorry, hasn't happened yet. I owned an Alvarez maple jumbo in the past....didn't open up very much....ended up selling it. My Taylor has a long way to go before it opens up.
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10-26-2010, 08:35 PM
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A person will usually change a heck of a lot more in 5 years than a guitar will.
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