Do you think European Spruce has an Empathetic Quality to its Sound?

[jim1960]

My Bamburg has a double-top of Carpathian spruce. I've shared some very personal things with that guitar but it never offers consolation or even advice. It just stares at me. I think it's judging me. Perhaps the two Carpathian tops cancel each other out so far as empathy is concerned. Now I'm wishing I'd ordered it with extra empathy.

[mmasters]

Originally Posted by Gasworker

I’m curious, what colours do Empathetic sounds produce?

Green...

[Tico]

Originally Posted by mmasters

Green...

No no no.
Green is for envythetic.

[mmasters]

Originally Posted by Tico

No no no.
Green is for envythetic.

That's lime green...

Empathy is medium or regular green.

[HFox]

Brencat....I have a 20 year old SCGC Maple /German F model.....open would be a understatement .
Grand piano clear bass...wonderful balanced mids and piano like trebles.
You can see it on the SCGCPF.
I love German Spruce.

Originally Posted by brencat

I hear brightness and a slight metallic reverb, having once owned a SCGC German/EIR OM, and played Collings and Goodalls with it. Would like to hear a fully broken in German, Italian, or Moon spruce top from one of the boutiques. Not sure if anything I just described qualifies as an “empathetic” tone.

[TRose]

Anthropomorphic guitar descriptors don’t bother me even if I have not experienced it. I can hope, right?


What an enjoyable thread. Thank you once again AGF.

[JayBee1404]

My Brook Lamorna has a European Spruce top, and it’s a great-sounding guitar. If I had any sort of clue what’s meant by ‘Empathetic Quality’ with regard to its sound, I’d vote and answer here. As it is, it means nothing to me so....

[Gasworker]

Originally Posted by mmasters

Green...

Thanks mmasters great answer I do think you may have a believer.

[Bill Yellow]

I often spend time sitting alone with my wife because my guitar doesn't understand me.

[Robin, Wales]

I thought that European spruce sounded particularly empathetic when the breeze blew through it while I was on a wilderness canoe trip in Sweden last autumn

[Robin, Wales]

Originally Posted by HFox

Brencat....I have a 20 year old SCGC Maple /German F model.....open would be a understatement .
Grand piano clear bass...wonderful balanced mids and piano like trebles.
You can see it on the SCGCPF.
I love German Spruce.

You must have the 'Steinway' model

[nickv6]

My guitar is so empathetic, it asked if I was OK last night

[Amite]

In the words of Robin Williams on wine tasting: "Absurd, yet flaccid."

I am often confused by some of the descriptions of sound like 'sparkle'. Start throwing around empathetic, psychotic or lethargic and I am totally lost.

[Kyle215]

Originally Posted by Tico

I find European Spruce to be texturally silken.

It is supremely elegant as it transparently and kaleidoscopically combines moss, wet stone, gentian, coriander, pepper, and piquant while rich tobacco oils and a decomposing clam broth and asphalt savor milks the salivary glands and seduces the sinuses with winnowing wafts of aardvark hormones.

But besides this impressive array of non-fruity components, European Spruce offers surging waves of white peach, scarlet lipstick, and lemon that hemorrhages primitive disturbing yet enticing juiciness and excretes a substantial animating twang.
This renders a luxurious turpentine finish that's as invigorating and refreshing as it is vibrant, mouthwatering yet psychologically misleading.

Garnished with a mornay truffle sauce and spam?

[mmasters]

Here is an example of a guitar of mine I find "empathetic"