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Originally Posted by Moocheng
Truth is, if Indian rosewood was hard to obtain and commanded exhorbitant prices, many would be spouting its virtues over Brazilian, such is hype.
Back in the day Brazilian was just another rosewood even used on some fairly ordinary instruments, now it costs a fortune and hard to come by its mysteriously developed magical acoustic propertys
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Have you tried it?
I played a lot of BRW guitars (as well as EIR, cocobolo, ABW, ziricote and Madagascar rw) as recently as a year ago when I was deciding which woods to use for a build. There is no doubt in my mind that Brazilian Rosewood is special.
Are there mediocre BRW guitars? Sure, probably. Are there exceptional EIR guitars? Definitely--I have one, and I've heard Somogyis and others that sounded fantastic. So it's not BRW-or-nothing. But it's dumb to dismiss BRW as all hat and no cattle.