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Originally Posted by Mark Hatcher
Ideally, the guitar's top and back aren't being used to holds the sides to shape. This adds weird tensions to the top that can change the sound and will change with time as the sides finally give up fighting the top (about 5 yrs later). That's when you have a guitar voiced to sound a certain way, then the side tensions on the top relaxes and it sounds different, probably not for the better.
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Here is what I'm talking about. The side set hold it's shape without any force:
Mark