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Two Favorite Acoustic Guitars
By Bill McRea

If you have played acoustic guitars for sometime, then you ll certainly have some that stand out for you. Not all guitars touch all of us in the same way. For me, here are my favorite acoustic guitars (I will pick just two although there are many that come to mind)…

For an acoustic guitar that I will love to have as a collector, I ll go for the Gibson Acoustic J-200. This one is called the “king of the flat tops.” It has a great sound and is really very beautiful. If you want to see the best of luthiers craftsmanship, then you have your baby.

This one has a history that goes back to 1937. And apart from that, it is built from the finest materials: Cherry finish, mother of pearl vine for the inlay, ebony for the fingerboard, hand-selected sitka spruce for the top, Eastern Curly Maple for the back, sides and neck, and a few more. So, this ain t just any other guitar. It is one that has a place in my favorite acoustic guitars corner.

What if I had to pick one guitar that I will use for the real business (I don t mean one that would just be played and wept over from time to time)? Then I will go for Line 6 Variax Acoustic 700. For one simple reason: It is more than just one acoustic guitar. It s sixteen (Yes, that whole lot)!

For those who are not yet conversant with what modeling technology does, here is it: A model reproduces the sound of a chosen instrument that it is not. So, in our case here, we are talking about one guitar that will give you the sound of 16 guitars and guitar related instruments.

The instruments modeled include…

1) Martin size 5 “Parlor”
2) Martin 000-18
3) Martin D-28
4) Gibson J-45

5) Gibson J-200
6) Selmer-Maccaferri
7) D Angelico New Yorker
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