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Cordoba C10 Spruce or Cedar
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Cordoba C10 Spruce or Cedar What are your thoughts? Right now I have a engelmann spruce double top guitar.
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Two definitions of double top: layered nomex top or two separate backs, so that the inner one can vibrate without being dampened by the player's body.
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Sorry about spell check.
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I haven't heard of that term. Is yours a nomex 'sandwich'?
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Well, In general of course, Spruce is brighter and depending on how the double top was made they tend to be brighter still. Given just the info you provided, I would think Cedar for a nice contrast in sound quality.
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Yes it’s nomex.
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I own the C-10 Crossover - that's the one with the slightly reduced nut width and radiused fretboard. It sounds great and looks beautiful, but if it were a toss-up between this and the cedar-mahogany version, I might be hard pushed to choose one over the other. I do like the fresh white appearance of spruce and the lovely dark rosewood, though. The C-10 also has an ebony fretboard; I think the cedar version uses rosewood.
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The spruce darkens in time and looks beautiful.
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Thats what I'm thinking.
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I have both c-10 cedar and spruce. I bought the cedar first and liked it so much I wanted a spruce also. After about a year I bought a spruce top and the very first thing I noticed was the louder volume in general, and especially the bass. Now a couple of years later I rotate them nightly because I really like them both. So the spruce is (as expected) louder but for some pieces I prefer the cedar. This probably doesn't help you much.
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With the other guitar being a double top spruce, I would also do the cedar.
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I owned the C-10 spruce and rosewood and a C-9 cedar and mahogany at the same time. I preferred the cedar mahogany tone just a little bit more. I kept the spruce top......long story but both were very good sounding guitars. Just personal preference really
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I have those two Cordobas also. Nice...
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