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Trying out a bunch of strings trying to get "the sound" and end up back at Phosphor bronze.
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In acoustic guitars I found "the one" in the form of a then-new 1997 Martin D-45V. I bought it and it has sat out on a stand in my living room ever since. It gets lots of play there and also goes out to Open Mics in non-virus times. Incredible guitar!
In electric guitar terms, I found "the one" in the form of a 1960 Harmony Meteor w/Bigsby. After 50 years of playing Pre CBS Fenders, ES-335's, Gretsches, and Guilds I found my Harmony and it blows everything else away. It is my GO TO electric for any event requiring an electric guitar. |
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Can’t seem to find that “one” yet! But I’ll keep trying!
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I found "the one" more than ten years ago. Since then I've managed to find a few "others."
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Ten guitars of different tone woods and body sizes all with different voices. Sounds reasonable to me. I will say It is helpful if one enjoys changing strings. Blues. |
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If you don't believe in "the one", it's because you haven't found it.
Four years ago, I played a wonderful OM by Montreal luthier Vincent Latulippe. At the time, I wrote about it here. I could not and did not buy it at the time but eventually the stars aligned and I bought it two years ago. What happened after is that I purchased a Mainstage flight case for it so I could take it anywhere I wanted, sold every other acoustic guitar that I owned and never regretted it for a moment. I still go to guitar shows and luthier showcases, I still enjoy looking and playing guitars from the best luthiers in the world and I still haven't played another that I like as much as Latulippe OM #17. Soon after buying the OM, I commissioned Vincent to build me an electric. It was delivered last summer and it receives virtually 100% of my electric play time. I realize that one guitar cannot be all things to everyone. I play fingerstyle (or more specifically hybrid) arrangements. If I also played bluegrass or manouche jazz I would likely want another guitar, but I don't play those genres. Similarly, my Foxtrot covers the genres I play (jam bands, fusion, prog rock) as best as anything out there. If I played other styles I would probably want another instrument.
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All you members that think there is "the one," do a recording of it and post it in Show and Tell or here and along with it, post a recording of the same song/tune with a different guitar so we can hear the difference. Just don't do a $3,000 vs $100 comparison,
Let's hear you play "the one." For me there isn't one, but there's a tone and feel that I like that I can find in several guitars. My Martin: My Avalon: My Larrivee: My Guild D-120c:
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My "one" out of the four I have (I've stopped I swear!), varies from day to day. I do find that having a number increases my practice time because after trying to learn a song on one guitar I say "I wonder what it sounds like on guitar ___"
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I don’t understand the affront taken because someone has found their “one”. Why is that intimidating? What am I missing, it would please me if someone reported finding that.
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No affront taken at all though. Some people (like me) like a range of tone, not just one. I would still like to hear what others love though. I might discover something new to gas over.
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I sold it. “It” was a Merrill OM-18k. Along the way I owned a dozen plus boutique acoustics. I guess I found I have a taste for moderately priced guitars. And frankly I found the tone quest to be the antithesis of what I love about music.
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Got another one.
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After I found the one, I gradually expanded my guitar horizons and found three additional ones.
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I haven't yet and I'm not going to. I have three in rotation and three more pinch hitters. Of the big three I've been playing them roughly equally. I only keep one out on a stand at a time, and often it is pure laziness that has me playing the same one for a week or two. I could, if I had to, live with any of them as the only one.
My 65 Texan might be the choice, but my D 35s, Guild and Martin would do too.
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