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Post by jonte on Jul 30, 2024 6:13:19 GMT
Tough question, while my shoulders still allow it I'd have to say my Iris Df. It does everything really really well and sounds fantastic with a capo.
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Post by jackorion on Jul 30, 2024 7:20:12 GMT
My OM28v which is, currently, my only acoustic guitar. It's outlasted many other instruments and has always been the one i return to after the honeymoon period of a new guitar wears off
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simonalex
Strummer
Posts: 39
My main instrument is: Bown O Bown OM Lowden F50 Dinsdale 00 Dinsdale OM
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Post by simonalex on Jul 30, 2024 20:55:55 GMT
Almost certainly it would be my Bown OM
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Post by grayn on Jul 31, 2024 5:44:17 GMT
Although I love the look and feel of small bodied guitars, larger bodies get the sound I love the most. A round shouldered dread. I played a 12-fret Santa Cruz dread once, that really did it for me. My 2 current guitars, a Taylor AD27 and a Faith Legacy Mars, are in that style and are both superb. If I had to choose one, it'd be the Faith PJE Legacy Mars.
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minorkey
C.O.G.
Posts: 3,450
My main instrument is: the one what has got strings onnit
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Post by minorkey on Jul 31, 2024 7:37:08 GMT
Actually it would have to be a full size one of these...
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webfolk
Strummer
Posts: 46
My main instrument is: Fylde Goodfellow
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Post by webfolk on Jul 31, 2024 10:31:35 GMT
It’s interesting that when any question like this is asked responders so often list what item it is that they already own, rather than the dream item they wish they had. I have a Fylde Goodfellow, factory standard, and, whilst it is a marvellous guitar, it’s not the best allrounder. If I could only play one guitar for the rest of my life I would have to choose something with Rosewood back and sides and a Spruce top, as I feel I would getter a better overall sound from it than the Cedar Mahogany of the Goodfellow. I would most likely choose another Fylde! I’d also probably want something a little bit bigger, so maybe a Falstaff or even an Oberon.
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Post by Onechordtrick on Jul 31, 2024 12:04:19 GMT
It’s interesting that when any question like this is asked responders so often list what item it is that they already own, rather than the dream item they wish they had. <snip> For I took the view that if I were going to commit to one guitar that I was going to be my only guitar I’d want something that I knew suited me rather than my, as yet, unplayed “dream guitar”. Having said that my dream guitar could well be very similar. Definitely a 12 fretter with the same body (OO), similar neck profile. I might choose rosewood instead of walnut and perhaps cedar instead of spruce but the jury is out still on that.
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Post by delb0y on Jul 31, 2024 13:58:03 GMT
It’s interesting that when any question like this is asked responders so often list what item it is that they already own, rather than the dream item they wish they had. Yes, I only really know my own guitars, anything else is a mystery - and aside from literally a handful (and only one hand, at that) of high end guitars, most of which I've only played for a few minutes, I haven't really played anything that are usually the guitars of people's dreams. I really love my Tanglewood TW40, which is a replica of a prewar Martin. If it was as easy to play as my 00015m then that would potentially be my one guitar. So maybe for me a real Martin OM or OOO, ideally with a wide neck, slothead, and just 12 frets to the body. Derek
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Post by forestdweller on Jul 31, 2024 19:34:05 GMT
I’m bucking the trend and choosing something I don’t already own. I think if it was only one guitar for the rest of my life it would have to be a really really nice classical- something like a Simon Ambridge or a Kevin Aram. Would probably be a bit restrictive given the music I currently play, but I’m thinking that on the right instrument I could probably quite easily spend the rest of my days just studying the music of Bach.
Robbie
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juliant
C.O.G.
Posts: 405
My main instrument is: Lowden L23
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Post by juliant on Jul 31, 2024 21:26:51 GMT
It’s interesting that when any question like this is asked responders so often list what item it is that they already own, rather than the dream item they wish they had. Ah well, if that's the case, then...
Some years ago I went to San Francisco to work for a couple of weeks, and over the weekend travelled over to Tiburon to visit Eric Schoenberg's guitar shop. There was hardly anyone else there so I got to talk to Eric for quite a while and try a lot of guitars. He asked what I thought of dreadnaughts, and Martins in particular, and I (being almost as clueless in those days as I am now) opined that I felt them to be a bit middle-of-the-road, and that I'd never found one that particularly impressed me. He told me to wait a minute, went out the back, and came back with a rather beat-up old Martin dreadnaught.
If I was only going to play one guitar for the rest of my days it would be that one. I can't remember the model, except that it was from the late 1930s and one of only a handful made. And it was going for about $50k. So it wasn't the one that got away, because I could never afford anything like it unless I won the pools (that dates me, doesn't it?), but it is my dream guitar.
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Post by delb0y on Aug 1, 2024 12:33:07 GMT
I'm so fickle... Thus morning I've been finger picking and flat picking my Furch D32 SM. That could be the one ..
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Post by scorpiodog on Aug 1, 2024 14:08:03 GMT
This question is so cruel and despicable, I'm reporting you to the RSPCG, PistolPete. I can't possibly decide on one guitar only. Mine are of all sorts and values. OK I could eliminate about half of them and not notice, but to leave only one!. It's giving me bad dreams and the collywobbles. I'd be spending a fortune on prescription drugs to get over thr trauma, if I wasn't so old the NHS won't accept my money anymore. OK, Ok, if it's purely hypothetical. I still don't really want to think about it, but it'd have to be my Brook Lyn. Happy now?
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colins
Luthier / Guitar Maker
Posts: 2,370
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Post by colins on Aug 1, 2024 14:13:43 GMT
I’m bucking the trend and choosing something I don’t already own. I think if it was only one guitar for the rest of my life it would have to be a really really nice classical- something like a Simon Ambridge or a Kevin Aram. Would probably be a bit restrictive given the music I currently play, but I’m thinking that on the right instrument I could probably quite easily spend the rest of my days just studying the music of Bach. Robbie When I was only building steel string guitars I did own a Kevin Aram, wonderful guitar. However, if I could still play and limited to just one guitar, then it would have to be my own 'La Lena' Tornavoz guitar based on Torres' FE19, currently owned by David Hutton. Or if I was dreaming then the original Torres FE09, previously owned and played by Tarrega, I have played it and I just had to try and build a guitar as close to it as I could and La Lena was the result.
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Post by PistolPete on Aug 2, 2024 8:37:13 GMT
This question is so cruel and despicable, I'm reporting you to the RSPCG, PistolPete . I can't possibly decide on one guitar only. Mine are of all sorts and values. OK I could eliminate about half of them and not notice, but to leave only one!. It's giving me bad dreams and the collywobbles. I'd be spending a fortune on prescription drugs to get over thr trauma, if I wasn't so old the NHS won't accept my money anymore. OK, Ok, if it's purely hypothetical. I still don't really want to think about it, but it'd have to be my Brook Lyn. Happy now? I was being nice! It's not like I told you in this *fictional* scenario all the others were getting destroyed by a fire is it?
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Post by borborygmus on Aug 2, 2024 8:39:52 GMT
I'm so fickle... Thus morning I've been finger picking and flat picking my Furch D32 SM. That could be the one .. That's the problem, isn't it. Tomorrow, it will be a different instrument. Peter
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