[QUOTE=crazymanmichael] talk to colin about what it's like having someone with perfect pitch listen to your guitar; it's even worse when they are playing one of them.
had a client some years ago who was blessed/cursed with perfect pitch, and it was HHAAARRRRDDDD!!!!!!!
ask her what it is like for her to sing with instuments which are not perfectly tuned/intonated and you may get an inkling. no matter how good you get it, it will not be perfect, since it can't be, and she will hear it.
you have a building and an education challenge ahead of you. you may want to consider one of the various different fretting systems to get things closer to "perfect"
as to woods, talk to her about what she prefers, the somewhat dry, crisp attack and decay of mahogany vs the compelx tonal structure and sustain of the rosewoods, and go from there.[/QUOTE]
Oh yes indeed Michael, my wife's perfect pitch has nearly led several times to divorce! But she has saved me money on expensive strobes for set-up! As some of you may know she played violin with the London Symphony Orchestra for a number of years and apparently something like a quarter of the players had perfect pitch, mainly among the string players and the theory developed that perfect pitch can be learned. String players with no frets or stops to help them, get their hearing educated early in the learning process.
As to the original question, I would have to say what type of music do they want to play? Then no matter what the anser was build them a Mahogany/Euro(or Adi, Lutz, Englemann) or for a richer sound Mahogany/WRC (or Redwood)
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. when my ancient conn died during the summer, i was at a loss until it's peterson replacement arrived.