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Because smaller guitars tend to have better, more balanced voicing. The dreadnought was introduced in the first place not for any tone quality reason but simply to be louder. (Back in the days before amplification, if you played in a band with trumpets and banjos you needed all the volume you could get!) Dreadnoughts, especially rosewood dreadnoughts, tend to be boomy. The traditional rounded guitar shape (as exemplified by classical guitars and reproduced in sizes large and small by everything from a parlour to a 000 to a jumbo) was made that way for a reason. So we are looking at the wrong question.
The right question is "If you don't need the volume of a dreadnought, why buy one at all?"
(Disclaimer: 2 of my 7 main guitars are in fact dreadnoughts. I bought them of my own free will because I liked them, and still do. One of my four best, most all-round playable guitars is a dreadnought - admittedly with a cedar top which makes it more balanced and less shouty than the average dred.)
If you get a resonator, get a light one.
I find it very rare that I find a small guitar that sounds as good as a jumbo. Many small guitars sound horribly boxy to me
I also agree on the woods: Cedar and redwood with rosewood or similar are the best combinations for me
I have an all-Koa jumbo too, that is a real contrast to other woods
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
(Disclaimer: I've never played one, but people I respect have said nice things about them.)
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
In reality, I suspect that it is massively over-rated as a tonewood, particularly as most surviving pieces will be leftovers, rejects, or knotty stump wood. But I've never played a BR guitar so what would I know?
And if you do buy one, you will have all sorts of trouble travelling with it as any CITES signatory country is going to want every I dotted and every T crossed on your paperwork, and an over-zealous customs official might just confiscate the guitar or destroy it as contraband. More trouble that it's worth, IMO.
Just the same, you can still buy Brazilian Rosewood guitars from (among others) Martin, Breedlove, and Taylor - so long as you are willing to pay the asking price (think half the kingdom and your daughter's hand in marriage).
...Or you could go nylon/classical.
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
Interesting comments from you all. This forum is very helpful.
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.