Unless I buy a guitar that has a pickup already installed it has always been my preference to have the option/choice of what type of pickup I want to install in my guitars. I've used Pickup the World, B Band, Fishman, Baggs, and K&K over the years with all kinds of guitars and models of pickup. Factoring in price and installation is important and would NEVER use an external pickup that mounts to the topwood unless the guitar is very inexpensive since it can damage the finish.
A good tech or luthier can install just about any kind of pickup and I have come to prefer K&K Pure Western Mini with an endpin jack and LR Baggs Para DI external preamp box to shape the sound.
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Circa Custom 7/8 Slope D Lutz/Ziricote
Bourgeois OMAT Adi/Panama Rosewood 2018 NAMM
Bourgeois OMSS Italian/Cocobolo
Martin OOO-16E
Furch Cedar/Mahogany OM
Eastman E3OME
Avian Songbird 3
Blue Lion Force/D'Oscche dulcimer
Blue Lion Style IIRW dulcimer
Blue Lion Jam Cedar Walnut dulcimer
McCafferty Chromatic Custom dulcimer
Northfield, Silverangel, Eastman, Big Muddy Mandolins
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