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Location: Germany | Hi folks,
hope this thread doesn't violate the board rules. If, I have no problem if it will be cancelled.
My problem is: My wife thinks she needs another guitar. Yes guys, also women can have GAS! Two of them in one family, think we will give up our kids for adoption soon.
I tried to convince her to take the EF75 but her choice is a sunburst Taylor. Recently I visited a huge guitar store with 30 Taylors on display, but they only had them with natural tops (BTW same with Martin). So I need a reliable and competent Taylor dealer for a custom order, preferable in the US (a so called "Taylor-Al"). Can you help me? If you don't want to post it here you are welcome to send me a PM.
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Location: SoCal | Karl, you wife OPENLY wants a Taylor????
I'd divorce the woman..... |
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| So I need a reliable and competent Taylor dealer for a custom order reliable? Competent? No such thing in "Taylor world"... :D |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I had a friend at the local GC that went to work for Taylor. It's a long shot, but I could track him down if you can't find anyone else. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
Karl, you wife OPENLY wants a Taylor????
I'd divorce the woman..... I'm gettin' to really like you Moody! :D |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | My daughter started taking a guitar class and bought an Ibanez a few years ago without consulting me. We still get along and she has contributed to my Ovation delinquancy on 2 occasions, by helping me buy a couple of Ovations. I bought her an Applause travel guitar. We can put aside our differences and try to get along as best we can. (I know Cliff won't think that's a lawyerlike comment.) |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Taylors suck, end of story. WGAF about a dealer. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Try Huber-Breze or Elderly. I did a Martin custom through Elderly and it was an amazingly smooth transaction. They are real pros. Not quite up to Al's level, but very good.
I would never criticize publically anyones desire to buy any brand of guitar. Good luck with the Taylor. In private I'd tell you that you are out of your freaking mind...
Personally, I would really recommend you look at the new Collings 0-1SB. It's a little smaller bodied guitar, and it sounds wonderful. Just what you'd expect from Collings. I played one last month in NY and fell in love with it. If you buy it for the wife, you'll be begging her to use it. It's THAT good. As far as sunbursts go, Collings are about the only ones I'd put on an equal, or maybe a bit nicer, than Ovation. Martin and Taylor sunbursts look like something I would have painted myself. Just my opinion.
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Location: ms | I,ve also had good dealings with Elderly. They have mostly sold things for me ( higher end Martins) and i,ve found them to be very fair. |
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Location: south east Michigan | What Tuppy meant to say was... Huber-Breese.
They host a Doyle Dykes apperence every year.
Good people. I know the store and the owner well. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Thanks Brad. Hey, by the way last Sunday I was watching the national spelling bee championship on ESPN2 and I noticed YOU were not in it?
What's up with that? |
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Location: south east Michigan | I wuz bezy last Sundae. |
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Location: Germany | Thanks for your replies, really appreciate them. To put oil on troubled waters you should know that my wife also owns an Ovation she terribly loves (CL 1719). Heaven knows why, but she thinks a sunburst Taylor fits her needs best. I don`t shortlist to divorce from her - her cuisine is one of the best I know. And yes, I will take a look on the Collings, thanks.
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Location: 6 String Ranch | The Collings is a very good choice, any Collings for that matter. |
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Location: upstate ny | Originally posted by cwk2:
Taylors suck, end of story. WGAF about a dealer. i wouldnt say taylors SUCK...
if i had 2 grand thats prolly what id buy :D |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Taylors come with gold tuner buttons. |
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Location: Germany | Not always, Dave. My Taylor 814CE came with ebony buttons, but it was a fake, they were made up of plastic and broke one day while tuning (I remember you had the same problem with Schaller tuners). I replaced them with golden ones. I realized during recent musikmesse that the new 814 model has gold tuner buttons - I think they had a lot of warranty claims.
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Yeah I know. I said it as kind of a "joke" because unbrok3npp seemed to be more worried about gold buttons than what kind of guitar they were attached to. I'm the same way abuot necks. I'd rather have a gloss neck on a shitty guitar than a satin neck on a nice guitar. Dave |
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Location: NJ | ". . We can put aside our differences and try to get along as best we can. (I know Cliff won't think that's a lawyerlike comment.) . ."
Au Contraire.
That's pretty much what it said on my Property Settlement.
. . . that's what it "said", . . but the results were a classic example of "actions speaking louder than words" :D
I agree on the Taylor.
I don't really wanna say they "suck", but . . . "they suck".
Years ago, a good friend of mine and I used to be fans of the band America. As the years went on and their music progressively got more "blah", I stopped listening to them, and he remained an avid "fan". It became fodder for a LOT of rum & cigar arguments.
Recently, he and I had a good-natured "cyber jousting" regarding their current album(CD). Last week, in an effort to "trump" me, he forwarded me a glowing "review" of the album that was posted on a website. Big mistake.
The review he sent me was posted on the Taylor website and touted the contribution(s) of Taylor's instruments to the overall sound of the record.
Over the course of two (or was it three?) Caribbean Martini's I composed a rather thoroughly scathing 3-page e-mail to him equating the soul-less "Vanilla"-factor of Taylor guitars to America's recent "flat-line" endeavour.
(Actually, the album's not . . "bad", . . it's just not as "brilliant" as others seem to fall over each other to make it out to be. That, and it made for a really good "f-you" to end the Thrust & Parry with).
My friend conceded by suggesting that I should write for a music (or a guitar) magazine. I told him there's already too many asshole doing that, and a bigger one really isn't "needed" . . . |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I was also a fan of America until a roommate repeatedly recited the lyrics. I did the same years later to a fan that I worked with. I may dig out a few of the songs I learned tonight. At least they were played on Ovations then. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I was OK with them until I got that song "Muskrat Love" engrained in my head. I've been singing "Muskrat Suzie, Muskrat Sam, Smoking big fat joints down in Muskrat land ..." in my head for about 30 years and ... it ... just ... won't ... stop. I'm glad they play Taylors.
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Location: Boise, Idaho | You didn't know that muskrats did the jitterbug? You probably listened to the Captain and Teneille version. |
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Location: ms | I`ve told you guys go online and buy Willis Allen Ramsey`s CD with muskrat love and you will forever thank me. |
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Location: Las Vegas, Nevada | Amen Brother, Gulfcoast. That Willis Alan Ramsey album inspired a lot of careers including Lyle Lovett and Shawn Colvin. "Satin Sheets" is one of my all time favorites. The tune is properly named "Muskrat Candlelight" and it's a gem. |
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Location: Australia | I like America particularly their 70's stuff.
Their 80's output was rubbish for the most part.
I like their new album though.
"Here and Now".
Some really good songs but overproduced.
Saw them recently, the band still sounds pretty good but their voices were struggling a bit.
....lets face it your voice would be a little croaky if you'd been singing "Hoarse With No Name" every night since 1972 |
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Location: ms | Prairie Dog, I had it on cass but it broke. All this talk has made me want another copy so i`m gonna order one tonite.I never can remember he called it "Muskrat Candlelight". Maybe if we call it that some of these pecker heads around here will listen to Willis. |
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Help! Where can I find a reliable Taylor dealer?