Buying a New Guitar

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Originally Posted by Redback

I Googled it, Godin, made in Canada, I'm looking at the Maton because they are made in Australia from Australian timber and Tommy Emanuel swears by them;)

Baz.

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The best guitar I ever had was a Maton AX5 shaped like a Les Paul...but that was a 100 years ago. :D. Speaking of TE, forget Smoke on the Water or Stairway to Heaven, just play Guitar Boogie for testing purposes? I'd like to see that.

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Originally Posted by Redback

I'm not that musical either, it's hard work for me, and why it's taken me so long to get to where I am now, I gotta practice the simplest things over and over, bar chords are my worst thing, my saving grace is I can hold a beat(from learning the drums)

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It was hard work for me, I managed to master basic chords ok, I like blues mostly, but listening to recordings of me playing put me off, there was none of the passion and feeling there. Just mechanical sounding.

Guess that's why I ended up a fitter/mech engineer, not a musician.

Anyway, hands and fingers are no longer as flexible as they were....

Terry

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Originally Posted by mikehzz

The best guitar I ever had was a Maton AX5 shaped like a Les Paul...but that was a 100 years ago. :D. Speaking of TE, forget Smoke on the Water or Stairway to Heaven, just play Guitar Boogie for testing purposes? I'd like to see that.

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:eek2:I wish, I could tap my foot and hum a few bars:cool:

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Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

I had an Eston 12 string which I bought in about 1973.

I loved it's sound , it had a nice action, it had a pickup.

But it suffered, frets fell out, the bridge came off, the pickup failed.

It was like an Alfa GTV. Or a Land Rover.

Anyway I sold it, and bought the Yamaha I have now.

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Are you saying that the Yamaha is like a Toyota or Nissan?:wasntme:

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Originally Posted by rover-56

It was hard work for me, I managed to master basic chords ok, I like blues mostly, but listening to recordings of me playing put me off, there was none of the passion and feeling there. Just mechanical sounding.

Guess that's why I ended up a fitter/mech engineer, not a musician.

Anyway, hands and fingers are no longer as flexible as they were....

Terry

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Yeah I'm a bit like that, not as flexable, a bit mechanical, have just started mastering the nut chords, bar chords next, I've been slack and never really sat down a stuck it out, but I'm determined to get better this time around and it's really only for my personal satisfaction/acheivement.

Anyway thanks everyone for your thoughts, good listening about the different Guitars also.

Baz.