Night Owl:

I own 2 Seagulls and there are 3 in the house (my son owns the other).

I finger pick almost exclusively and the Seagulls respond well. However, I am not an expert guitar player by any means and if price were not an issue I would buy a different guitar. As I said there are 3 Seagulls in this house and the total investment is less than $1,000.00 Canadian including cases.

Only 2 guitars have impressed me of those my friends own. One is a Taylor and the other is an early Larivee (I think. Maybe Rick Fielding can verify that. It's Jeff's guitar Rick). Don't take the above to mean I don't like Rick's guitars, I haven't played them.

One last word on price. I truly believe that I'd have to spend more than $1,000 to get a better playing/sounding guitar than my $300 Seagull.