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Sorry, I have the brand wrong. Not sure of the brand, cheaper make.
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I came for the durability, as I travel every week by plane. That said, I love the variety and sounds of my CF stable. I do however love to get home to my wood guitars, that have a differn’t depth of sound, or maybe some more nuance? I can’t find the words.
I too play more because one CF guitar is always out and ready to grab, as well as one ready to travel. I think I need to experiment more with strings on them now though.... Looburst- I think you should get more info before posting about the guitar, you are of course entitled to your opinion to not try them, but there are quite a few reputable manufacturers out there now that stand behind the products, fwiw. My CF guitars go in airplanes on up to 25 flights a month and almost never need tuning, can’t say that for when I traveled with wood.
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Traditional wooden guitars have a sound that has almost become genetic in the human ear. I know that CF makers work to accommodate that traditional sound. But I also believe that CF is not only capable of mimicking that sound, it is capable of a variety of novel sounds; sounds that are tonally different but nevertheless pleasing. Those novel sounds add to the breath of guitar music. I like it.
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I bought the Martin not too long ago,it was on sale. I never heard one played,but this gitar sounds good,is easy to play,and now I love it. Ok,it's not carbon fiber,but it's not all wood either.
https://www.martinguitar.com/guitars.../omcxae-black/
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Firstly I'll admit that they are THE answer for musicians playing in places where temperatures and humidity are big issues. I live in the UK and neither are significant. I'll agree that "good" guitars mprove with age - further , they improve to sound better for one's individual style after time - i.e. playing encourages the woos to resonate as they dry out and a resonance pattern appears based on your style. I'll also respectfully disagree with the person who buys solely on the basis of how they sound new. This is a reasonable starting point but it is not the whole story. Example : There are times when I have ordered a guitar from the US sight unseen because the model is simply unavailable in the UK. The latest example is my Santa Cruz which was built in 2012 hung on a wall in a dealers until 2014 when someone bought it and didn't play it. I bought it from him some months later and it was disappointing tonally. I have played it a lot at home to open it up and it now responds to me beautifully. Equally, it replaced a Larrivee SD50 dreadnought which I never played much, and sold to a friend who is a hard strummer. I less than a year he has opened up the guitar so it now fills a concert room ...so much so that I have wondered about buying it back. Anther factor that i believe holds back CF guitars is tat they are by intention and design very modern looking and I can't be the only one who prefer their guitars to be or look like traditional (well 20th C) Martin and Gibson designs.
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Good stuff on here... I had an Ovation I bought new that sounded sooo good acoustically and plugged in. A few of my guitar friends couldn't believe it was an Ovation..... so after about a month the bridge come off.....sigh.... it was fixed under warranty....and I knew it would never be the same... sure enough it sounded like crapola. ... had to sell it .... CFs doesn't do that ... to me anyway.
So I am starting to like my CFs and eKoa. Ok... love the heck out of them for all the reasons one can. Just saying'.
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Silly, please take a look at the Blackbird Savoy. I'm sure the cutaway is an obstacle, but ignore that, and tell me what you think. Its appearance is brown, like wood, and organic– it's made out of a linen fabric. It has no heel. The back body edges are slightly rounded, not sharp. It sounds like a wooden guitar, and it is LOUD for it's size. Can you not see its appeal? Merry Christmas from the colonies!
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I buy all of my guitars for how they sound today. If they improve over time, that’s great.
I only came to CF guitars after moving to an area where the relative humidity hovers around 18-20% most of the year. And learned pretty quickly what that can do to an acoustic guitar that isn’t kept properly humidified. What I discovered is that the RainSong sounds really good! I still have and continue to buy wood acoustic guitars that I need to keep properly humidified, and yes that’s a bit of a chore. But I love wood acoustic guitars, so I put up with the effort. The Rainsong, however, gets played as much or more than the wood guitars because it is always at the ready and requires absolutely no attention to temp nor humidity changes, AND sounds awesome too! I whole-heartedly recommend Rainsong guitars to anyone who wishes to benefit from a guitar that is impervious to changes in temp and/or humidity AND wants an instrument that sounds great! CH-OM1100NS |