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Old 02-24-2019, 01:09 PM
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I find it hard to believe you don't know what the reason its. Just sounds like an excuse to show your displeasure with sound ports.

Here are some examples of "mutilations":





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Old 02-24-2019, 01:18 PM
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I removed the pickup on my Martin and had a sound port cover put over it where the hole was.

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Old 02-24-2019, 01:27 PM
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To each his own - If the guitar doesn't sound great to begin with, Id pass .
Sound ports in my opinion are a no go -
I'm not jugding anyone's choices here -
I just wouldn't buy one , new or used
if a sound port wasn't put in by a professional luthier
but was done by a owner - Id guess it would hurt its resale
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Old 02-24-2019, 02:01 PM
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It pains me to see a beautiful guitar mutilated. Is there a reason for it?
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Old 02-24-2019, 02:36 PM
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If the hole is the right size and you maintain the proper angle as you play, it will hold your beer so it is close to you on a hot afternoon.
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Old 02-24-2019, 02:49 PM
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When I'm boom-chucking, I sometimes struggle to hear the bass. I'd worry that a sound port would make it all the more challenging.

(I know. I know. Stand closer to the bass, or at least further from the banjo. But I'm not quite good enough to get to choose my spot most of the time.)
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Old 02-24-2019, 03:10 PM
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It pains me to see a beautiful guitar mutilated. Is there a reason for it?
Not to offend, but you're defending an aesthetic that is yours alone to embrace. No need to feel 100% of the readership here should agree that your idea of mutilation is valid in any sense of the word, defined or imagined.

For that matter, if you've given audience to Ervin Somogyi's telling of the guitar's construction, his opinion is the sound hole located on the top of the guitar immediately beneath the fingerboard extension is in the worst possible location regarding logic and placement, where structural integrity is a concern.

But, convention places it there despite much success relocating it to the upper bout like McPherson and Ovation do. Still, buyers have a fixed notion image in their minds about what an acoustic guitar should look like and are pretty vocal about it. No problem vocalizing a preference but I wouldn't imply that any altered form of it is mutilation.
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Old 02-24-2019, 03:12 PM
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It pains me to see a beautiful guitar mutilated. Is there a reason for it?
As a traditionalist. I thought that way too - until I played one. Then I did a 180. Having one is a big asset in my opinion. I am surprised some "brands" do not offer these - and assume that is only because their efficacy is not well-known (yet).
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Old 02-24-2019, 04:00 PM
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...To me they look like someone removed a preamp and left the hole there...
That exactly describes how the "port" in my Seagull looks because that's exactly how it came to look that way. The original micro eq had failed over the years and I elected to remove it instead of repair it.

In some future "when I get around to it" time I'm going to come up with a design to cut around the existing hole, something that looks more artistic and....intentional.

The hole/port, whatever it ends up looking like, is a keeper.

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Old 02-24-2019, 04:33 PM
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Maybe the small sound ports are ok but the bigger one's in my limited experience don't sound right, they make the guitar sound woofy and kind of ruin the experience.
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Old 02-24-2019, 04:47 PM
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For those of you who play with a pick, those are pick retrieval ports, or PRPs. When you drop a pick through the soundhole they provide an easy way to get it out. Another benefit is that for every 20 guitars built, enough wood is saved to make another complete back and sides set.

This is funny..
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Old 02-24-2019, 05:52 PM
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Adds a touch of class and color when a bunch of flowers is stuck in the hole. However I’d advise keeping the stalks fairly short and avoiding anything prickly.
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Old 02-24-2019, 05:57 PM
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I liked the sound port jokes the first five hundred times i heard them.
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Could it be,... Mice??
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Old 02-24-2019, 06:19 PM
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Why limit the scope of the sound port . . . . Go BIG!


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