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Interesting you mentioned about the immediacy of response of a smaller body. I guess one of the challenges of making a bigger size guitar for fingerstyle is to maintain the focus and definition of individual note (instead of sounding "fuzzy"). I am not sure how this relates to the sense of immediacy (which apparently describes the happening of the sound in relation to time). Or are they just different descriptions of more or less the same auditory perception? I would be interested to know if you and Jason have considered making a MD with shallower body to effectively decrease the volume of the box and perhaps achieve comparable results to "shrinking" the MD body to MDW? Pip |
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This is such a striking instrument - the high-contrast binding and neck work wonderfully. Awesome, Michael and Jason.
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yes, we did toy with the idea of a shallow MD but I wanted the immediacy of a smaller body. The MDW has a much faster response than my MD. Quote:
Here's a video about Maple in general which features the MDW in standard tuning too This is proving to be an extremely inspiring instrument and I've been writing a lot of new material since we first met...
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The "depth" of sound on the bourgeois was incredible...then you picked up the Kostal and it blew it out of the water. WOW!
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It has "matured"!?
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It is remarkable how the MDW sounded different on these clips over the course of just two weeks or so...to me a lot crisper and articulate on the new recording. Earlier recording: Pip Last edited by Pippin; 11-25-2016 at 06:22 PM. |
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Kostal MDW
Michael,
What a beautiful guitar, and in all aspects. I love the design choices on this one, and the birdseye, figured maple back and sides are gorgeous. I really like the color of the rosette too. It might just be me, but the design on the tail of the guitar (the maple inside the two rectangles) looks like two nines flipped on their sides, for serial number 99. I don't know if this was intentional on Jason's part. Congratulations on a world class instrument.
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Beautiful guitars... [emoji1362]
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