Okay follow-up question guys and gals....

For those of you who look at headstocks and can tell the difference between a Martin and a Takamine and a Yamaha et, al., could you tell the same difference if you were blindfolded and six different musicians played (rotated their playing, that is) on six different makes of guitars?

It seems to me there was a thread a long time ago about a sound test that a group of classical musicians collaborated on. We all know what our guitar sounds like from the position of being over it. Well, they wanted to know if they could identify their guitar if someone else were playing it. They tried the experiment at different distances, with different players, etc. If my memory serves me right (and that is a BIG if) it seems like inside a certain distance they were pretty good at picking out their guitar, but beyond a certain foot range all the guitars sounded remarkably alike. Now, I know they were all probably playing $10,000 guitars, so the analogy may be skewed. But I am wondering if most guitars are made of the same basic wood types how they could be so readily identified just because they come out of a different shop. If a Martin has a spruce top and mahogany back and sides, would it be all that different from a Takemine with the exact same wood types? Could you identify my custom made with the exact same wood types?

No challenges here, I am just really curious. I know my custom made sounds significantly different than my Yamaha. But one costs $2,500 and the other was $500. They SHOULD sound different!! I was just curious if anyone has done a "blind" sound test, and what were the results.

Curiouser and curiouser,

Freightdawg