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Location: Miami | I'm currently looking at the T-series 1778TX-4CS with interest. This guitar has a solid cedar top, mid-depth bowl, and Elite sound-holes only on the bass side. I'm just wondering ...
- Do cedar-topped Ovations sound very different from their spruce counterparts?
- Do sound-holes on only the bass side negatively impact the sound?
Has anyone tried this guitar? I'd be very interested to hear your impressions! |
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Location: Tuscany, Italy | I own its sister 778GC Elite, bass side only sound holes spruce top X braced mid-depth bowl and love it, both sound wise and appearance. I was seriously thinking to get that guitar too (but I'm waiting for to find a 1772 custom balladeer cedar top made in 1994 central hole). Cedar top sound more mellow and warm then spruce. If you get it let us know your impression.....thank you ! |
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Location: Germany, where delicious wine is growing (Rheinh) | I've tried Riccardo's as we visited together ,it IS a great sounding guitar! But back to the question: I love my FD14 with cedar top but I would not say I like them more than spruce top guitars. I just bought a classical, masterbuilt here in Germany with all wood grown here and I took it with spruce top .It has more "sparkle" and is not so "dull" in the highs.
It's everyone's own what sound he likes. I like different sounds therefore I have a lot of different guitars.....
Bernie |
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Location: Miami | Did you think the 1778TX-4CS, with its cedar top, sounded a little dull, Bernie? |
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Location: Germany, where delicious wine is growing (Rheinh) | I don't hope so!! I just want to say that it is everyone's own oppinion to "hear" the sound of a guitar.
My special new clssical guitar sounds to my ear a bit dull in the highs with a cedar top.
I've had an Ovation 1713-4C with was also sounding a bit dull in the highs, a cedar top guitar, too. But thats my very own "hearing".
Bernie |
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Location: Miami | One reason for my asking is that I recently bought a Takamine TF87PT - all solid cedar/koa parlor - and the acoustic sound is gorgeous. I'm always drawn to Ovations, and I wondered if there might be similar richness in sound as the Takamine. Also whether those bass-side-only epaulette holes stifle the trebles a little too much. I used to own an Ovation 1778TX, the black matte-finish one with a spruce top, and I found this really was a little dull on the trebles. |
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Location: Tuscany, Italy | At one time I owned a cedar top Takamine too that I borrowed to my son. I miss it. It sounded very, very nice from Ebass to the other one, but as Bernie said, its very subjective... |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Okay... I am moving backwards here.
Since Timolin has brought up the subject of Cedar-Tops I bought one.
Unfortunately I did not buy the 1778TX-4C
I bought the CCC... That would be the Cedar Contour Celebrity CC29S-4C.
I used to have an S771-4C, so I am thinking that this will be a budget version of that one.
I am hoping that this will be a good busking guitar.
So, I will give y'all a review once I get it... 
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Cedar-topped Ovations anyone? Looking at the Elite T-series 1778TX-4CS
