Oddly enough, the only Takamine I have ever owned was a solid-body electric GZ-300. Pretty rare.

I liked it a whole lot. Very fun guitar. My bandmates didn't like it so much when I brought it to gigs--they thought it was too rockin for our folk-rock sound. So I traded it for a hollow-bodied Yamaha AEX with a more acoustic sound. I have mixed feelings about the trade.

But the GZ-300 is a nifty, reasonably priced, nearly collectible piece.

Now, let's not be slappin 70's Martins around, eh? They still lack the cachet (and Brazilian rosewood) of the older ones but they were the last (or second-last) decade of a long continuum of classic solid-wood guitars, back when the name Martin meant something special on every single guitar that had it burned onto the backbrace.   


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