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#3 Something was definitely out of wack with the Taylor you tried. There is no way a correct factory spec. set up Taylor action, is too high. Often when people who are used to other mfg.s guitars play Taylors, they note how low the action is but never too high. Just sayin'
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My uneducated guess is that he learned guitar around some old bluegrass pickers. Old school thought was that you had to have high action and heavy strings to get decent tone and enough volume to be heard over the banjo.
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I have to wonder about the guys that say they bring a battery along. The guitars I had you needed to remove the strings or detach them to replace the battery. I envision finding out the battery doesn't work and saying just a minute while you detach the strings, change out the battery and tune it back up and say there thanks for waiting. The battery issue is a big part of why I don't like those types of pick-ups.
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Svelte blonde singer........guitar player, guitar player, we don’t need no stinking guitar player.
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I generally play at church.
I only have one guitar that requires string removal to get at the battery. So, I at least check the battery at each string change. As it’s a 12...that’s about twice a year. With six strings, I tend to bring a backup guitar with a passive pickup. But I have a battery in my go-bag.
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My battery died right before I was to play last week at an open mic. Luckily, I had thought to check while I was waiting, no red light inside when I plugged in my cable. Pulled the spare out of my case - it was dead too! Luckily, a friend had a spare and I popped it in to do my songs, then gave it back to him. To the OP: 'narrow nut' on a Taylor to me means it must have been a 100 or 200 series with a 1-11/16 nut. 'High action and buzzing' to me means probably had light strings on it (assuming it wasn't down-tuned) and had some back bow, too. Several years ago I was at an open mic and played the host's guitar - a 12 fret with the strap tied to the headstock. It was the most awkward feeling guitar I'd ever played! So it really is 'what you are used to'.
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My friend runs and fronts a top local band in Buffalo. They have a big following play a lot of gigs.
My friend is also a super cool band leader and always invites friends to play with the band and the band is so cool - it's like they just expect to have a guest on stage every other show. So I go out and play a few songs with them once in a while (which is so much fun because the crowds are sometimes HUGE). Sometimes it's planned out and I bring my guitar and even do soundcheck. Sometimes it's a very impromptu thing: my wife and I will be in the audience having a drink and, in the middle of a song, he says "hey! there's my buddy - c'mon!" and waves me up on stage. So without preparation I grab his guitar and play. When I play with my guitar it feels great but when he hands me his guitar it feels a little strange - he has a great guitar but he slings it low so it feels funny to me and his guitar has a narrow neck. It goes fine but I am always super conscious of how different it feels and being very careful to not let it screw me up......having fun and wishing I had my guitar in hand!
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I basically can't play a guitar that's not mine.
Any variance in nut width, action height or fretboard radius really throws me. I also have significant stage fright; my skill level gets cut in half when I perform in front of someone... So if my guitar was non operative, I couldn't perform. |
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As for batteries, I always keep spare 9v's in the Cole Clark cases. The Martin is new and the sound hole pup even newer. I had just put a new battery in it and they are supposed to last for 120 hours of play. Not sure what happened but since I'll rarely used that guitar for amplified play it might get a passive sound hole pup. As for the svelte blonde, she's on the website below! At nearly 60 she's aging WAY better than the fat old guy with the guitar! |
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Maybe it’s because I played electric mainly for several years before I started playing acoustic mainly, but I can’t stand high actions, I’m always mortified When I play other people’s guitars because they always feel like they have high actions, besides my old mans, don’t know how his action is that low without buzz on that guitar.
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