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02-21-2020, 08:13 PM
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That's not bling, it's a haphazard abomination.
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02-21-2020, 08:57 PM
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What does bling do with guitar sound?
As you’ve heard me say several times, I tried out multiple HD28s and had the best one I’d played picked out to purchase. Then I tried out my Reimagined D41 and it beat every 28 I’d played.
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02-21-2020, 10:59 PM
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Bling has no tone .
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02-21-2020, 11:38 PM
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This!!!!!!!
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02-22-2020, 12:47 AM
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There is currently a school of thought that believes that all that abalone around the top actually “improves” the sound of the guitar. Their rationalization contends that the rigidity of the shell around the edges serves to make the top vibrate more independently, somehow.
There are some folks who fervently believe that. But if you try to convince a Martin employee that abalone trim around the top “improves the sound,” they’ll snort in derision. There are a few other arguments made as to why shell trim might improve the sound, but they’re equally speculative and unsupported by anything other than anecdotes: “I played a whole ROOM full of Martins and the D-42 and the D-45 were the best-sounding ones!” The weight of the shell inlay is too little for its mass to have an impact on the sound. As Otterhound wrote earlier in this thread, “bling has no tone.” To insist that abalone purfling “improves” the sound is to cling to wishful thinking. It’s easy to make a circular argument that it does, but it’s completely unsupported by the evidence. Hope that makes sense. Wade Hampton Miller
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02-22-2020, 08:20 AM
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First, if we were buying or evaluating guitars based on "evidence", the industry would grind to a standstill. Guitars appeal to people based on sound waves that are measurable, but that doesn't account for how those waves affect the individual listener.
A highly appointed guitar often indicates that the builder was stretching out and offering premium woods to complement the inlay, and could account for a better sounding instrument. Or, neither the bling or the woods hit the mark the luthier was striving for. But if bling has anything to do with "improved tone", it has far more to do with the materials and craftsmanship on the particular guitar then the abalone.
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02-22-2020, 08:43 AM
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Bling is like a clean car... it just rides better.
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02-22-2020, 10:17 AM
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Ha ha ha I definitely wouldn’t do that to my Taylor...!
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02-22-2020, 11:16 AM
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I guess that might serve a purpose if you regularly attend a song circle where there are lots of other players who also play Baby Taylors - there is ZERO chance of anyone else mistaking that for their own guitar - but I honestly think that painting it with zebra stripes or in the woodland camouflage pattern would be more attractive than this “Liberace got a Baby Taylor and decided that he wanted rhinestones on it” approach. No accounting for taste, I guess.... whm
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02-22-2020, 11:26 AM
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That guitar in the OP needs to be taken to a doctor. Hope it's not contagious.
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02-22-2020, 11:38 AM
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That's a GS mini.
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02-22-2020, 02:48 PM
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Perfect for a 14-yr old girl into bedazzling things.
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02-22-2020, 03:05 PM
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After I referred to the guitar with severe Rhinestonepox as “a Baby Taylor,” Mystery wrote:
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Maybe that was the perpetrator’s motive all along.... whm
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