Re Makes

Agreed it makes little difference which brand of Guitar excels, only one box out of dozens would be that good anyway - so in my case it could have been any make since I had a helper select the demos from the display. Makes sense where the material - wood - can be so inconsistent in quality.

I recall, way back, buying an Aria and later selling it for far more than I paid. It was a rinky dink ragtime Guitar and it hopped so well I still often regret selling it, again selected from dozens and took several weeks to decide which I wanted; also in this case I remember taking several out of the warehouse from their cardboard boxes and tuning them. At the time we used count the grains per inch in the Table or top of a Guitar to select the best one. It had a higher GPI than anyother.

On this occasion we were shopping for a thumper for me to play along with Fiddle. I had already given away my last box - also gifted me by an oldtimey fiddler - Gibson - because the fretboard was too narrow for my hands so it hurt to play a simple C chord.