Cooking with GAS
Dec. 13th, 2024 11:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billroperGretchen said that if a new guitar was coming into the house, an old guitar had to go out.
The Taylor 326 Baritone-8 has come into the house. The Guild D-50 is leaving, although it will apparently need a neck reset before it can go, because the neck is separating from the body, which appears to be endemic on those guitars of this vintage.
The Guild D-50 was a wonderful six-string guitar that I never played, because I had lots of six-string guitars that I liked better. I originally bought it to replace my Epiphone six-string, because after I got the Guild 12-string guitar, I stopped playing the Epiphone. I suspected that it was because the Epiphone was not as good as the Guild, so I bought the Guild six-string to match the 12-string and discovered that, no, I just liked the 12-string better.
Eventually, I got my first Taylor 710 six-string guitar and discovered that I liked that better than the 12-string. But that was some years later. *Many* years later.
So the Guild D-50 that was the differently strung twin to a guitar that I had already owned will be leaving, being replaced by the Taylor Baritone-8, which is the differently strung twin to the Taylor 326 six-string that I already owned. There is an interesting symmetry here.
Depending on how much the repair costs and the state of the used guitar market, the consignment sale of the D-50 may defray a substantial part of the cost of the new guitar. And that will be good too.
In the meantime, the Baritone-8 is a fingerstyle monster of a guitar. It's not bad with a flatpick either, but the first song that I played on it for Gretchen when I got it home was "Oz", which is finger-picked. It was written in C, but I can't sing it in C, so I normally capo it up to E, going up four frets.
But that C chord is a G on the baritone guitar. And I can also sing "Oz" in G.
Sounds pretty good too. :)
The Taylor 326 Baritone-8 has come into the house. The Guild D-50 is leaving, although it will apparently need a neck reset before it can go, because the neck is separating from the body, which appears to be endemic on those guitars of this vintage.
The Guild D-50 was a wonderful six-string guitar that I never played, because I had lots of six-string guitars that I liked better. I originally bought it to replace my Epiphone six-string, because after I got the Guild 12-string guitar, I stopped playing the Epiphone. I suspected that it was because the Epiphone was not as good as the Guild, so I bought the Guild six-string to match the 12-string and discovered that, no, I just liked the 12-string better.
Eventually, I got my first Taylor 710 six-string guitar and discovered that I liked that better than the 12-string. But that was some years later. *Many* years later.
So the Guild D-50 that was the differently strung twin to a guitar that I had already owned will be leaving, being replaced by the Taylor Baritone-8, which is the differently strung twin to the Taylor 326 six-string that I already owned. There is an interesting symmetry here.
Depending on how much the repair costs and the state of the used guitar market, the consignment sale of the D-50 may defray a substantial part of the cost of the new guitar. And that will be good too.
In the meantime, the Baritone-8 is a fingerstyle monster of a guitar. It's not bad with a flatpick either, but the first song that I played on it for Gretchen when I got it home was "Oz", which is finger-picked. It was written in C, but I can't sing it in C, so I normally capo it up to E, going up four frets.
But that C chord is a G on the baritone guitar. And I can also sing "Oz" in G.
Sounds pretty good too. :)