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I agree w/this as well. I've owned two for years, D-19 and L-09, both spruce over RW. I suppose tone comparisons won't necessarily hold true for all body shapes and woods but general I think Larrivees are somewhere in between the Martin and Taylor sound...less bass and a bit less complex than a Martin, but not as "modern/focused" as Taylors. It's probably why I -and others- often describe the sound as balanced. These are of course generalizations. I'd add that while the larger bodies don't have boomy bass, it is a nicely rich and defined bass.
fantex, I think Larrivee sunbursts are beautiful. Here's my L-09.
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What I recall Greig saying is that scale lengths got longer as the models got bigger, up to a point. When Martin introduced a larger model, Martin would often/sometimes (?) shorten the scale length of the previous, now next-largest model. That seems to bear out in the sense that the 0 had a 25-1/8” scale length in the 19th century. When the 000 was introduced in 1902, it had scale length of 25.4” (and of course, was a 12-fret model). I’ve seen 00s from the early 20th century with 24.75” scale lengths, but can’t say for sure if Martin shortened the scale length on 00s when the 000 was introduced—if someone has Greig’s book, perhaps they can check. In any case, when the OM was introduced in 1929, it was the 14-fret version of the 12-fret 000, and both had standard 25.4” scale lengths (or not, according to TJ Thompson, but that’s a whole nother rabbit hole). When the Dreadnaught (with an “a”) was introduced, it also had a 25.4” scale length. I recall reading in Grieg’s book that the switch to short scale on the 14-fret 000 when the OM was replaced by the 14-fret 000 was consistent with Martin’s practice of reducing the scale length of the now next-smaller model. Martin continued to offer “Standard” 12-fret models in 0 and 00 sizes after 1934, at least as shown in catalogs. Not sure if they made any 12-fret 000s off-the-run and, if so, what the scale length would’ve been. |
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