[david] > My church band's lead guitarist has one of the new Fender Strats (they're made > in Mexico). He also has an ES-335. The ES-335 sounds a lot better and is much > more versatile (according to him). The 335 cost about $2500, IIRC. He also has > a Gibson Les Paul (the solid heavy model). That's the guitar I always wanted > decades ago. I happen to like the sound of the Strat more than any other electric I've played so I'm a little biased there. I don't really care about versatility, I want only one sound, and this guitar has it. > My Garcia Concert Model 3 has beautiful tone, even now, many decades after I > bought it. It cost around $200 back then. > > Another guitar I thought had great tone back then was a Yamaha FG-250 12-string > I found in a small music shop in a very small town in northern California. > (Couldn't convince my parents to buy it for me!). I wonder how its tone has > held up over the decades? I have an old ragged and stained children-size classical guitar that I used to play for thirty years, and as long as I played it regularly I thought it sounds wonderful. Such familiarity, I think, can often let you do things with ease on one instrument that are out of reach with another instrument you are not as intimate with. And I think that whatever you play, when you play it well, it will always sound good. Tim _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
