Thread: Can you trust what you hear?: 'Opening Up' and other Guitar Lore
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Old 07-05-2009, 02:26 PM
Jeff M Jeff M is offline
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Originally Posted by Herb Hunter View Post
If I had the opportunity to play a 1920s vintage guitar, how would I know that its present tone wasn't worse than what its tone once was?
Because....well.....it's VINTAGE!!!!
(And, if you listened to a recording of the guitar from the 1920's, you'd hear the OBVIOUS differences. )
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