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Away from the superstar luthiers, I have found that the new-value RRP guitars between £2800 and £5500 contain all the amazing acoustic guitars that really impress me.
FYI 12 frets on parlours I've played... I haven't been keen on, so a cutaway would be required perhaps if going for that.
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round trip postage at shop rates (i.e. £20 not £60) would be worth it
The Dreadnought is a Santa Cruz Tony Rice, best dreadnought I have either owned of played, but moving to the Larrivee theme -if the Larrivee TSB SD50 had had a slimmer neck I would never have sold it and bought the Santa Cruz. It was an awesome guitar and I much preferred it to the equivalent Collings I played at the same time. It was a mahogany backed guitar and there are many on the Larrivee forum of the opinion that it is the wood that they do best. You can get soundclips of different models on the Larrivee forum
The other guitar was the McilRoy A30 which I keep in CGCGCD
Off the tunings, DADGAD is good both as an accompaniment tuning and for finger picking. CGCGCD and DAAEAE are limited chordally but great for picking
I need to do a broad online search and narrow this down, then make some trips in future and get this done. This could take 2+ years from now to get it in my hands. But for now I shouldn't spend too much time on it.. but this is super interesting.. I think my best bet is to visit a few of these acoustic superstores..
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My favourite alternate tunings are currently
DADGAD - I keep a lovely Avalon in this, and a 30 inch scale electric (but dropped), plus a strat with trem!!
DGCGCD - on my 1 7/8" nut Larrivee SD60 - 12 fret slope shouldered dread
this is the "Rain song" tuning
DGDGBD - open G, I have an Avalon on this duty
Fifths: Alan Arnold Beltane 29 Inch scale: G D A E B F#
This grew from my enjoyment playing a Tenor guitar tuned in 5ths,
I now have a Fender Mandostrat too
You can play such different stuff in 5ths, it's a real revelation
if if I ever had the money I'd def give one a go, but often wonder who buys them. Still not knocking it - undoubtedly beautiful instruments and whatever makes you happy I s'pose.
I always think just look at what some people spend on bikes/watches etc. Much better spent on a guitar...
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floppy 5th and 6th string are killers for me: I use 11s, so use thicker strings for dropped bottom strings
so for DAAEAE, for the same tension as 12-60 tuned EADGBE on 25.5 inch scale it gives:
68, 46, 46, 24, 18, 12
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At a slightly lower price point, Furch/Stonebridge sound very good. The higher end Martins with scalloped forward shifted bracing are normally very, very good as well. Santa Cruz are great but some seem to be better than others. I'm not a big fan of Collings though.
British builders like Brook and Atkin are really good as well.
The other lesser known maker that comes to mind is a Czech company called Rozawood. They were at the Olympia acoustic show a couple of years ago. Stunning guitars.
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I like it a lot
"I went to see James Taylor once and he sounded fantastic, so I spent ages looking for the same guitar he had. When I finally bought it, I was really disappointed, it didn't sound that good at all.
Then I realised it wasn't the guitar, it was me. The reason I don't sound like James Taylor is because I can't play like James Taylor!"