It would have been a good idea to look at Kincade, or Brook - or (John Barden) that stunning birds eye maple thing that wotsisname with the recording studio had at the Greyhound the other week, made by Doug something or other - someone said he made an acoustic for Clapton - and you later said he was a Kentish maker.

Lowdens differ greatly from each other. I remember one very favourably - touch it gently and it was sweet and complex, but hit it hard and it rang like a great bell. Never seen another half as good.

But the best by a street I have ever touched is William Pint's Goodall, whatever the tariff rate!