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I bought a Concert in January. The store also had an Etude. My take was the Etude was louder with more treble, which sounded tinny to me. The Concert had a more even tone and sounded "richer". I'm happy with the Concert (no pickup model).
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I have a Presentation as well and love it. The tone is great!
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Being new to classical I'm going to try hard tension strings on my Concert. It came with regular tension and LaPatrie says they use regular or hard tension on all models.
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I put hard tension on my Presentation and they are great. For 2 reasons I chose this: I often play in lower tunings (drop-D, DADGAD & others), also I have played 6-string electric bass for years,so I am used to a lot more string tension.
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Thanks very much! I'm glad this place exists!
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I have a Collection from back in the days when La Patrie was called Kamouraska.
I bought it, if I recall correctly, sometime in the mid-1990's for studying classical guitar. Studying classical guitar only lasted a couple of years ( ) but I still have the guitar and it has been a wonderful addition to the collection (pardon the pun!). I normally use Savarez, High-Tension on it. I tried a little experiment here recently and put D'Addario ball end (hybrid) strings on it. They sound great!
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Ditto!
I have known about the name change since very close to the time it occurred, but I had not realized it was Godin who had bought the rights. I was told the Kamouraska/LaPatrie thing was/is a luthier "commune" tucked away in an Eastern Canadian forest. Is this true? Just answered my own question, from Wiki: The guitar line originated from a small luthier shop founded in 1982 in the village of La Patrie, Quebec, Canada. In 1996, the first demo of collection model was available for purchase in some of the biggest guitar stores in Montreal. In 2008, La Patrie won an acoustic guitar players' choice award [2] Today there are over 200 people in La Patrie dedicated to the art of hand crafting guitars. Did the Godin buyout also come with personnel changes? My Collection looks almost identical to what is available today.
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I have no idea. I would suspect that at least some of the talent would have remained with Godin ... I just looked LaPatrie on the map - a very small place in the middle of nowhere. I doubt there's that much work in LaPatie outside of guitar work
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...from the Seagull Guitar (also made in LaPatrie) website;
"Today, LaPatrie has a population of about 475 and about half of these people are guitar builders. These folks take a great deal of pride in the guitars they build" Sounds like a pretty cool little village!
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Ahhh the La Patrie Motif plus free TRIC case came home with me tonight. I have been playing classical solos/exercises for the past two hours. It's a nice small parlor size and sounds great. Can't wait to try out some bossa on it.
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Congrats!! Create a NGD thread with some pics. Were there any other classicals that you were also looking at?
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