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Thread #85352   Message #1581275
Posted By: Seamus Kennedy
11-Oct-05 - 04:57 PM
Thread Name: Do you recomend me a Takamine guitar?
Subject: RE: Do you recomend me a Takamine guitar?
I have 4 Taks, and love them.
2 are excellent played acoustically (unplugged), and 2 suck acoustically, but they all sound great plugged in.
Since I perform for a living, I want very good travel workhorse guitars which sound good amplified, and don't cost an arm and a leg to purchase or repair.
I also have a 1927 Martin 0018, and an Adamas.
The little Martin has a fabulous sound but a fingerboard that's just too wide for my small hand, so I only play it at home.
The Adamas got to be to heavy. OK, the truth - I got too heavy, portly is the word I'd choose, and the roundback Adamas on the roundbellied Seamus didn't work.
As with any guitar, take them down off the wall in the store and PLAY them.
Play them acoustically and play them plugged in and amped.
Have a friend play them while you watch and listen, and then make a decision.
Hope this helps.

Seamus