No Money Has Yet Been Spent
Jun. 14th, 2023 03:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billroperI am in a mood and am shopping for a present for myself, because I have been working very hard on too many things. Also, I am old and cannot leave *all* of my money to my children. :)
I have been thinking about a new guitar since I laid hands on a mahogany-topped Taylor AD27 at a Taylor Find Your Fit session down at Tobias Music some months ago. That was a really sweet little guitar and not quite like anything else that I own, because I am a rosewood junkie. But I didn't buy it.
I discussed this with Gretchen and we agreed that I could go guitar shopping. So late in the day, I took our only available car away and drove down to Tobias Music to look at guitars. I took along my first Taylor, which was a nearly 25-year-old cedar/rosewood Taylor 710, because that's been my office workhorse lately and there's no sense buying a guitar that sounds just like it, since I already *have* a guitar that sounds just like it.
The owner is a very nice fellow and helped me set up in the Taylor room. They are currently out of the mahogany AD27, but they have a number of similar models, including a unique-to-them blond version of the all-maple AD27. This was interesting, because I haven't had my hands on an all-maple Taylor in a great many years, so anything I knew about them then would clearly be wrong now.
The all-maple AD27 turned out to be nice, but it wasn't different from my 710 in any way that I preferred, so it is off the list. I did get a chance to play an all-mahogany Taylor 324 and that had an interesting sound, so when the mahogany AD27 is back in stock, I'll want to take a close listen to it again. And I played guitars with spruce/ovangkoi (the latter being an African wood similar to rosewood) and spruce/walnut, both of which were interesting, but not in the way that the mahogany is.
There was another fellow who wandered in to look at guitars while I was there and this led to a great deal of guitar geekery, all of which was good.
So no money has been spent (other than on gas and dinner at Mission BBQ). Yet.
We'll see how things go when the mahogany AD27 is back in stock. :)
I have been thinking about a new guitar since I laid hands on a mahogany-topped Taylor AD27 at a Taylor Find Your Fit session down at Tobias Music some months ago. That was a really sweet little guitar and not quite like anything else that I own, because I am a rosewood junkie. But I didn't buy it.
I discussed this with Gretchen and we agreed that I could go guitar shopping. So late in the day, I took our only available car away and drove down to Tobias Music to look at guitars. I took along my first Taylor, which was a nearly 25-year-old cedar/rosewood Taylor 710, because that's been my office workhorse lately and there's no sense buying a guitar that sounds just like it, since I already *have* a guitar that sounds just like it.
The owner is a very nice fellow and helped me set up in the Taylor room. They are currently out of the mahogany AD27, but they have a number of similar models, including a unique-to-them blond version of the all-maple AD27. This was interesting, because I haven't had my hands on an all-maple Taylor in a great many years, so anything I knew about them then would clearly be wrong now.
The all-maple AD27 turned out to be nice, but it wasn't different from my 710 in any way that I preferred, so it is off the list. I did get a chance to play an all-mahogany Taylor 324 and that had an interesting sound, so when the mahogany AD27 is back in stock, I'll want to take a close listen to it again. And I played guitars with spruce/ovangkoi (the latter being an African wood similar to rosewood) and spruce/walnut, both of which were interesting, but not in the way that the mahogany is.
There was another fellow who wandered in to look at guitars while I was there and this led to a great deal of guitar geekery, all of which was good.
So no money has been spent (other than on gas and dinner at Mission BBQ). Yet.
We'll see how things go when the mahogany AD27 is back in stock. :)