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To: Dick Vomer
I have forty years of experience and own too many guitars (as my wife says "some people have a 401(k), we have guitars)." I have some connections in the business and have generally been able to buy at dealer cost.

While I've dealt with tenor guitars (and soprano, tenor, and concert ukuleles), I've never seen nor played a baritone guitar. Sorry I can't help you, but you have me interested.

I have several guitars that are for playing (right now in my bedroom, it's all acoustic: a Gibson, two Martins, and two Collings - and a Gibson banjo, a Weber mandolin, a Gibson mandolin, and an old Martin ukulele), not for investment. Most are for investment.

You probably love your Taylor because the neck reminds you of your Stratocaster; Taylor's have a bolt-on neck instead of a dovetailed neck, and the neck's much more like an electric guitar than virtually any other acoustic you'll find.

Bob Taylor's a nice guy; I first met him when he was still delivering his guitars out of his car. I was in a guitar store near the Haight-Ashbury District of San Francisco, looking at a Santa Cruz guitar, when he drove up to deliver some guitars. His car and trunk were full.

I've met him a couple of other times since then, including at NAMM.

35 posted on 09/09/2011 4:08:34 PM PDT by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred.)
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To: Scoutmaster

Wow, that is such a cool story. The Taylor I have has a low action but the radius of the neck is slightly bigger than my strat or ovation. Had the weirdest time adjusting to just the slightest increase in size. Affected my barre chords from the 6-7 th fret down but I’ve been able to adjust the neck and it turned out I just needed to adjust the neck.

I’ve told my wife that if the Internet had been around when I was a kid I would gave been in a band playing guitar. It’s so amazing the stuff I’ve learned to play over the last 7-8 years with tabs, videos and interviews about different tunings and tapping techniques.


37 posted on 09/09/2011 10:00:12 PM PDT by Dick Vomer (democrats are like flies, whatever they don't eat, they sh#t on.)
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