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Post by pnut on May 14, 2014 16:40:37 GMT
Sounds good Jack. I've found the same with my Atkin OM I've had a few years and my new D18 I've just bought, the new guitar is great for some things my old one doesn't do as well, which is why I bought it, but when I play the new one it makes me appreciate how well the Atkin does some things I'd started taking for granted that the D18 doesn't do as well. I agree with Kym and Scorpiodog you can't have too many guitars! (Well within limits obviously!)
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Post by scorpiodog on May 14, 2014 16:42:36 GMT
(Well within limits obviously!) Nothing obvious about this, Pete. Why?
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Post by pnut on May 14, 2014 16:44:54 GMT
Well you reach a point where you need a bigger house to keep them all in and houses are expensive you know!
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Post by scorpiodog on May 14, 2014 17:13:28 GMT
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Post by sweyne1 on May 14, 2014 17:23:29 GMT
I'm in a surprisingly similar situation. My first good guitar was/is also a Martin (00016GT) and I love it. But, i'm waiting on an Alexander in about 12 months time. The basic Alex is obviously a lovely guitar but, with the changes that Roger is applying to mine (44 nut and slightly different profile neck) it will be even better (for me).
I kind of hope I don't rate the Martin when i've got the Fylde because that would mean it's absolutely lovely.
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Post by martin130161 on May 15, 2014 10:50:58 GMT
I'm sure many of us fortunate enough to have more than one instrument would probably agree that there is almost certainly no such thing as 'the perfect instrument'. If I think back over the years to all the guitars I've owned and subsequently sold on - four Martins (including a Brazilian rosewood limited edition M36!), two Fyldes, a Guild, a couple of Gibsons, three handmade guitars built by an ex-Fylde employee, who should/shall remain nameless!), an (gulp) Ovation Adamas - it's all symptomatic of the endless search (fuelled by a tank full of GAS) that guitarists in particular are caught up in. I do, perversely, envy guitarists who have a more or less monogamous relationship with their instrument (Pierre Bensusan springs to mind, although I know he does have a fair few other guitars at home) and use it to play everything they do on, rather than the Steve Howe approach of having 20 different guitars on stage at every gig (which I used to love the idea of, I have to say!)... But I also believe (probably like Steve Howe!) that no one guitar can completely, 100%, cover all types of music adequately, depending on whether your own music covers several 'stylistic' bases; to me, it would always be a compromise, for example, to play a piece of classical guitar music on a flat-top guitar with a scratchplate and abalone inlay...but then that's just me! Whereas - again, from a personal and aesthetic point of view - you could 'get away' with that better on a very plain-looking, no frills hand-made instrument. In the same way, bluegrass on a Romanillos would be just plain...well, interesting, maybe... :/ In the end, of course, it all comes down to personal preference - and I would say enjoy BOTH your guitars at different times, rather than looking to do an A/B comparison... after all, you can always get down to comparisons when you've bought 'the next one' Because, as we all know, there's ALWAYS a 'next one'...!
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