[MOSES JONES]

Hi I am Oz artist and I have been playing Republic Resonators for a number of years…

Doing Ragtime, Jazz, Country Blues etc etc…

Very ,very happy with them……

It’s true I have them set up properly

and they are fitted with Highlander pickups (Is there any other?)

All in all they cost me around $1500 AUS

I need a few guitars as I play in different tunings so it can get quite expensive…

but recently I had the money to buy a National Steel…..

And I’ve always “wanted” a National…

but I wanted to compare them to my Republics

and if they are as good as they say

Well I’ll get one….

I went down to the shop…

The Nationals were advertised for $4600 but my mate worked there

and could get them for me for $3500..

I brought my Republic in and compared them….

And just to make sure I had another mate who’s a professional musician

Who brought his ears…

I played the same song for all the guitars I tested

and lol and behold my Republic was better..

Every National I tried wasn’t as good or as good

but not twice as good or 3 times as good!……what’s going on?

Ok let’s think about this for a minute…

It is in the end a tin can with a guitar neck on it…

So I could have paid $3500 which is more than double the Republic

and gotten something as good perhaps, for $2000 extra!

Now the people who build and play Nationals will all shake their heads

And state that their guitars are better…

Of coarse they would wouldn’t they?

There’s money in them there hills ain’t there?

Wank value is just that…

Wank..

I've got a job to do and if the Republic does the job then so be it…..

I have ordered another Republic and it'll be here in a couple of days….