During the years that they were in production I played at least a dozen Gibson Songmaker models, both their dreadnought and their OM designs, with and without cutaways. I never found one that I liked even a little bit, which was disheartening, because I was hoping for a good-sounding Gibson at a moderate price.
At that point Gibson had recently discontinued its plain Jane “Working Man” series guitars, which offered terrific value for the money, and I was hoping for a similarly great guitar for remarkably little money. That was the marketing plan for the Songmaker series, but the guitars themselves fell short.
Which is probably why they’re no longer in production today.
To those of you who found good- and great-sounding Songmakers, I envy you. I never did.
Wade Hampton Miller
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