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Although I am not a wood expert, I have experienced maple/spruce combo in two guitars. One was a Taylor and the other a Guild. Both jumbo guitars in their first decade. I don't know if I would like the sound of maple in a smaller instrument but these two jumbos had a very beautiful tone. It all depends on what tone you like to listen too.
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I have a Dove with maple b/s. I find it stays out of the mud. Everything is clear and balanced. Which is not necessarily a good thing if your looking for a darker tone.
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I had played a Taylor maple 614 years ago and I still kick myself for not buying it. It was used and at a great price. I bought a J-45 instead though that year so I'm not crying in my beer just yet
The Taylor had a really nice tone though. Different from rosewood and mahogany.
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But if you’re talking about getting a similar guitar with maple instead of rosewood, I’d say maple is quite a bit like mahogany but with a little more sparkle in the mids and trebles. And maybe a touch more bass as well. For my purposes, maple works very well. I value a dry sound, and at times rosewood can have a little too much reverb for my tastes. It just really depends on the context. There’s so much variation in how guitars sound - even ones built from identical woods at the same time - that sometimes these generalizations become a bit meaningless. But in general I think of maple as dry and sparkly.
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I hope to test out this maple someday soon. Beyond my means right now....but it sounds absolutely lovely. I have heard comparison videos between the Taylorn 618, Gibson SJ200 and this Guild J55 maple. The Guild had it all.
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Projection!
I have three archtops (oh and an F5 mandolin) with maple and a Waterloo WL-12 which has improved remarkably since I got it in November 2016. Maple to my mind is kinda the opposite of rosewood - no complexity but straight on clean and clear - and did I mention the projection? .
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I have a Dove, and find it to be a large guitar with very restrained bass on it, so much so that I use it in open C tuning since the bass doesn't get flabby and boom out.
I can imagine that this would be less bass than some would want. The highs are very clear and present, with pronounced high end. The sustain is medium. The overtones are not particularly great. I have a rosewood dread, a Gibson J-60, and a J-15 with walnut. I find considerable difference between the three. Maybe other maple bodied guitars are different than my Dove, though. But that's what I've found so far. |
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One of my favorite fingerstyle guitar players, and a charter member on AGF, Michael Watts, plays on a Maple bodied guitar. He achieves sonic perfection.
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