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Originally Posted by Robin, Wales
I have thought that I liked guitars without all that fuss of overtones. So I like lots of fundamental and not anything else. But I was playing my Godin 5th Avenue acoustic archtop last night and started to wonder. I really love this guitar - it is literally a cherry plywood box with only two braces in the whole thing and a bolt on maple neck. I have shaped a rosewood bridge for it and it wears 13-56 monel strings that are at least 18 months old.
As I was was playing it I was hearing a complexity to its timbre. It has a very distinctive timbre, which can be like a rich velvet if I play it right. I have always thought that this guitar had limited overtones but, if that is so, then what is shaping the timbre?
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Lol - now THAT'S a testimonial about the longevity of Monel strings!!