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Location: Snåsa, Norway | ... on my short Stockholm vacation. A Cort Earth 900, 12-fret slothead. Think it's a parlour or 00-sized body ("auditorium" according to the factory specs, not quite sure about the correct nomenclature), solid top (cedar) and back (mahogany) sides laminated mahogany. 47 mm string spacing (my guess is 1 3/4"?) at the nut. In short a nice little guitar for blues fingerpickin'. Paid 4000 SEK (ca $550), and saved about $350 compared to the price in my local guitar store. [Wink]
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Joined: June 2006 Posts: 7307
Location: South of most, North of few | Can't go wrong with a 12 fret slothead. Nice grab Erik! ;) |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | That looks extremely nice. Congratulations.
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Location: south east Michigan | Topic: OT - I've bought a new guitar! The purchase of a new guitar....any new guitar is never off-topic around here. |
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Joined: April 2005 Posts: 200
Location: Melbourne Fl. | I'd like to hear how you feel after a week or two playing it,looks great! |
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Location: Snåsa, Norway | Originally posted by slydog:
I'd like to hear how you feel after a week or two playing it,looks great! I already feel fine! Put on a new set of strings instead of the rusty ones from the stores, which didn't sound really bad though, and now she sings with her true voice. More crisp and sharp tone than my Ovation, and resonates beautyfully, vibrates in my lap, totally different feeling from my deep bowl Custom Legend and my dreadnought 12-string. I'd say she sings as beautiful as she looks, but I'm of course a little biased for the moment. :D |
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Joined: June 2006 Posts: 7307
Location: South of most, North of few | Yes, a new guitar will do that to you....
Congrats Erik! |
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Joined: November 2006 Posts: 217
Location: Snåsa, Norway | Got no pics yet, a digital camera is on my wishlist, but the purchase is delayed because of this guitar. I also bought a Zoom H4 recorder, so you can hear me playing it. |
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Location: France | Congratulations! Very nice.
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| Nice. I didn't think anything was cheaper in Sweden. |
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Joined: November 2006 Posts: 217
Location: Snåsa, Norway | Originally posted by schroeder:
Nice. I didn't think anything was cheaper in Sweden. This guitar was cheap to me because the Norwegian Krone is relatively strong compared to the Swedish, and that the store had reduced the price by 20%. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Nice guitar, enjoy it. |
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Joined: April 2006 Posts: 972
Location: PDX | Cool little guitar and some fine playing there Erik.
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Joined: November 2006 Posts: 217
Location: Snåsa, Norway | Scanned some photos of my Cort (and pics of my other steelstring acoustics as well). You'll find them here.
After a few days of playing it stands out to me as a specialiced machine for fingerpickin' the blues. "Lady sings the blues" with a lovely voice. For other purposes I prefer the old Custom Legend, it's a lot more versatile. ;) |
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Joined: December 2006 Posts: 49
Location: japan | it shapes good...
Congratulations! |
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Joined: April 2006 Posts: 1017
Location: Budd Lake, NJ | She's really beautiful, Erik. The neck inlays remind me of a delicate, old-fashioned necklace. (Some day I'll have speakers, and then I'll be able to appreciate her singing, too.) I'm so glad you got her. Thanks for posting the other pictures, too--it's always a pleasure to see "family" pictures.
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