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Old 10-01-2022, 08:00 PM
Steve DeRosa Steve DeRosa is offline
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Originally Posted by Mandobart View Post
...ultimately if you want to be heard over everything else, I have two guitars that will do the job:

- Gold Tone Paul Beard round neck resonator strung with 13's.

- my Altamira gypsy jazz guitar. Incredibly light (unlike the reso) but incredibly loud...
- to which I'll add a New York-era Epiphone archtop; while prices are going up (like everything else), as a rule they're still priced substantially below their Gibson counterparts, and as long as you're not looking for a pre-1936 Olympic (the "David Rawlings model") player-grade 16-inchers can still be found in the $1500+/- bracket if you look...
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