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I was so excited I just had to share this experience I had today....I thought my #2 guitar sounded decent, but I decided to take the guitar to a couple of local guitar shops today to see/hear how it stacked up to their inventory(a dozen or so $1500-$5000 guitars were involved) (gulp!). Anyway, I asked the guys to play their favorite store models, then asked them to play and compare my guitar to those, surprise, surprise...they all thought mine sounded better(sounded that way to me too), now that was cool!! Their comments were.....my guitar had more volume, crisper/better projection, balanced, and beautiful tone. Now I know there are zillions of guitars that will sound better than this one, but it seems as though this one is at least better than average, I'm happy!

Have any of you guys done this out of curiosity? I figured I'd learn in a hurry if this one was any good.

Greg

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Gwaltney Guitars

Didn't have the courage to do that yet Steve but sure wanted too!

Hey Man, i'm really happy for you, it means that you sure do somethin' right huh?

Greg, you old trickster! That's excellent! Took a lot of nerve, but that's the way to find out quickly how you're doin'. Now give it to some pro players and ask them what they DON'T like about it!

I did that on my first one, I'm afraid to do it on this one...Yikes!!

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Gwaltney Guitars

It would be nice to do a blind test - or not.....

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"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered." G. K. Chesterton.

Actually that would have been a great idea...unless they liked another guitar better...I'm not going back to test it out, HeHeHe!

Greg

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Gwaltney Guitars

Wow,Thats great how well your guitar did Greg.I'll bet you were really proud.I sure would be! Congrats. What were some of the guitars you compared with? Martins,Taylors?Larrivee?Kragenbrink?

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Anderson Guitars
Clearwater,Fl. 33755

Yep, I do it too. Congratz on a great sounding guitar. Now just remember what you did and do it some more...

Thanks Dave, I was thrilled that's for sure, but realistic as well, I know if I went into a high-dollar guitar store it may have been a different story...But it was fun anyway! O.K., so the guitars that were played with mine were 6 Taylors(various models and woods), 5 Larrivee,4 Martin,1 Guild(surprisingly good), 3 Tacoma Custom Shop(good as well), 5 High-dollar Breedloves. I think that covers it, so yeah it was fun but these may not have been the best group of challengers.

Greg

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Gwaltney Guitars

[QUOTE=GregG] but these may not have been the best group of challengers.

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Greg, my friend, they were plenty good to put up against a #2 guitar! The fact that yours came out as a favorite says a lot. I'd wait until at least #4 to go up against the $5K instruments.

Thanks so much Carlton....I don't know if I can wait until #4!! I guess I'll see how #3 turns out first...

Greg

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Gwaltney Guitars

[QUOTE=CarltonM] [QUOTE=GregG] but these may not have been the best group of challengers.

Greg
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Greg, my friend, they were plenty good to put up against a #2 guitar! The fact that yours came out as a favorite says a lot. I'd wait until at least #4 to go up against the $5K instruments. [/QUOTE]

Greg,I agree with Carlton that those guitars you went up against were fine instruments for your #2 to come out on top!Again...WTG Very impressive.

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Anderson Guitars
Clearwater,Fl. 33755