[ljguitar]

Originally Posted by rocketdude

...Still, people (often) claims that the D28 is the ultimate bluegrass guitar...and that's what they mostly play on it today. Am I right?

Hi rocketdude...

I hate being carded or stopped and asked for official ID...I hope we don't have to start carrying licenses to be allowed to play certain styles of music on our instruments.

Best bluegrass I've heard in person was on a Tony Rice model SantaCruz Dreadnaught, and it was awesome. To be sure the Martin-esque influence was present.

I learned to fingerstyle on a D-28 and it was mine for 17 years, and served me well till I discovered guitars which served my style better. That was not the weakness in the D-28 but the capabilities of the other guitar to provide things a D-28 is not designed to do.

That D-28 is now over 40 years old and hopefully serving someone well somewhere. Bet it still sounds great as it ever did.