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Hard to find any fault with your playing that I have heard Matt……Well maybe that Pete Townsend Windmill thing !!!!
The SCs stay on the home range with the exception of the SC F that has traveled by car to Colo. and back.
I do let friends who I trust play them when we have Jams at home.
The Martin has traveled a lot. To the Islands and to Join my friends “IN LOW PLACES” on the VERY rare occasions I perform in public with Dee.
ALL have been evacuated once for Hurricane Irma.
We have recorded 3 CDs…..Studio time in a class A studio with a master engineer is $ 30 P/Hr.
It is the mastering of the recording that take lots of time and $$$$.
The recording I made for our forum cost me $45…..what I sent to this forum was raw…no editing no mastering.
The studio put it on Soundcloud for me and I then sent it here
I have just completed my trimester string change.
SCGC low tension on the F, OM, And O.T. H model.
Played the O.T today plugged in …..very balanced with clear mid-range , bell like trebels and Grand piano sounding bass through a Bose TouchTone and Bose l11S tower.
SCGC Mid tension on the 1934 Zorro
All pure acoustic except for the O.T which has a baggs under saddle P/U. with sound hole volume control.
I am a great believer in SC strings and have used them on all my guitars since their introduction.
But…..after a long conversation with DigDog about string types on “plugged in” guitars I have decided to order a set of Martin retros (mediums) for the martin HD-28 ( a baggs p/u). His comments about the composition of the retros and the metallurgy of the pick ups on electric guitars made sense so I will give them a try.
I have been drafted to play in public with my wife and will use the Martin plugged in to a sound system…..I’ll let Y’All know how it goes.
I kept begging Alex….Mate , just set it up so I can push one F**^ing button and play !!
He said , Hank an artist has to use all of the Pallet……and HE was an Artist.
Remember he was an intelligence analyst for the Navy…he looked at all the angles.
He learned 8 bars of music on the pedal steel guitar just to record one song with Dee because he said “it’s gotta be in the song”.
Welcome and Happy anniversary.
What a great gift to each other.
My wife and I never miss going to “The Gulch” and the Station Inn when we visit Nashville.
The city is changing in a very dramatic way but places like the Ryman and the Station Inn and other places in the Gulch keep the flavor of Nashville alive.
Very well said Tad.
Please don’t think that I am complaining about SC used prices. I also have benefited from the lack of appreciation( in both definitions of the word) .
I just have always been struck by the inequity in the price of used SC instruments.
Whenever I have sold one of my SCs it has always been one that I purchased used,so I have not suffered the 40-50% depreciation that I have seen with some of the listings on other sites.
And, you are correct in that each SC model is “voice” unto it’s self.
When I first began obtaining SCs I played lots of the other Boutique Brands and some Custom Shop Martins.
I always came back to SCGC instruments….the various voices were always in Harmony with my soul.
So while it is none of my business what Dana does with his company and I really have no opinion as to his plan, it does bring to mind that old Marketing 101 saying : if there is more of a product available to the market then the price for that product should decline. If a competitor intentionaly reduces the amount of product to the market his product should command a higher price. Quality being equal.
It would appear that with the recent changes in supply philosophy by Mr. hoover and and Mr. Bourgeois that the SCGC products should gain in value.
Thanks Tad …that’s it.
As I’m not a “charter member” on that “other forum” I don’t think I can post it there.
A.S.
I have ALWAYS wondered why a “Opened Up”(which every guitar player I know wants) , mint condition instrument by SC does not APPRECIATE. They DO present a higher value sound when played….and all of us say that’s what we want.
My 34 Zorro is now 3 years old and it is louder , richer and more impressive than when new.
My OM “Tree” has developed more maturity in just the couple of years since I bought it used but little played by the previous owners…..I play it almost daily.
The O.T. was Taylor’s main touring instrument and had hundreds of hours of playing time when I bought it from him. I have put at least another hundred hrs. on it and it still is “Opening Up”.
In the high end yacht business if there were 2 exact boats, of the same age ,same condition for sale and one had 100 hours on it and the other had 500 hrs. on the engines the selling price was ALWAYS higher for the higher hour vessel. Why ? it was a Proven and experienced craft. Engines were built to run not sit at the dock.
Fine guitars are meant to be played…not be locked away in a case.
Naw Chris I can’t agree with that analogy…Brad Paisly, Don Edwards,Eric Clapton, Otis Taylor, Catfish Kieth,Scott Law,Tony Rice, Eric Skye…none of these artists are fantasy types. well maybe Janis and Sonia ( don’t yell sexist at me).
I was attracted to SCGC when I purchased a D-A1 from a Guitar Center here in Ft Myers……They did not appreciate what they were selling…I stole IT.
When I worked for Boston Whaler (when they were a privately owned company) part of the selling presentation was their high resale value and their durability. When I began to look into SCGC I was very attracted by the “Built to be passed on” and “The sound Musicians want” logos.
I understand and support ” The Maestro’s” business ethic and I know that his build the best not the most is the right way.
I know when I sold several SC instruments through a SC dealer I was a bit taken aback when they applied the same formula for depreciation that they applied to factory mass built instruments.
There may be no answer to the question , but it does float around in my feeble brain……and I would like to see appreciation for the brilliance of Mr. Hoovers,and his artists.
Are the Florida members of the Forum also invited ?
Daniel,I feel your pain vis a vie (a little French lingo there) home repairs. i just got hit with $17-20 K to replace all duct work and HVAC system in our house…..has to be done, but is playing Hell with my Ocean Blue FTC budget.
May have to hold off for a year …..
