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Old 12-08-2016, 12:20 AM
M Hayden M Hayden is offline
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Originally Posted by rick-slo View Post
Curious. Who is doing most of the jazz playing on a flattop acoustic guitar versus and electric guitar and/or archtop? Draw backs of an acoustic flattop guitar for jazz?

A number of jazz scores I have looked at with numerous and continuous block chording way, way, up the neck would seem fairly fatiguing on an acoustic flattop as well as the issue of sustain and base note sound quality running out of gas up there more on an acoustic than on an electric.

Me, for one, using an OM cutaway. It works well for me, but I play the same stuff on a narrow-necked jazz box, too. The choice of instrument has to do with the playing situation...brunch gigs work great on acoustic, and smoky Saturday night background jazz benefits from a neck-position archtop humbucker and small clean amp.

The music doesn't change that much with the instrument, though, although the archtop has a little glassier rounder high end and the acoustic has a little more percussion in the voice.
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