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Originally Posted by zoopeda
I disagree. When someone is discussing a guitar, they should be able to use the correct term, jumbo or dreadnought. If you own a jumbo, you should call it a jumbo and not a dreadnought. Just like if you own a corvette, you call it a sports car and not a sedan. Words are important.
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When I was a kid-and this is probably just an English thing-'big' guitars we called jumbos and everything else was a 'folk' guitar, whatever it was if it had steel strings. I was 16 when I bought an Eko 'Rio Bravo' dread, but I had no idea what a dreadnaught was, so a jumbo it was.