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Location: Phoenix AZ | My local shop (The Music Store, Mesa AZ) sells Martin, Gibson, Epiphone and Ibanez. I buy my strings and accessories there. Of course I always play the nice Martins they have. Anyway, Thursday I stopped in and they now have a nice selection of Hamer and Takamine guitars. The local Kaman rep must have done a nice job. I played the Hamer Monaco and the Tak collectors guitar and was extremely impressed with both of them. The Tak especially was really nice playing and sounding. But nothing is as nice as getting home and playing my own guitars!
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January 2004
Posts: 338
Location: SE Michigan | I have never been a big Takimine fan. But I have heard performances recently on their "cool tube" pre-amp and I must say it sounds really good. I even picked up a Tak brochure and took it home. Who knows, maybe next time I might get a Tak. |
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December 2003
Posts: 13986
Location: Upper Left USA | I picked up a Takamine Dreadnaught Acoustic for my Sister back about 1980. It was the comp model to the Guild D50 I was playing. It is still a very nice guitar to this day. |
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Posts: 2850
Location: Midland, MI | That's great news for you, Dave...more Kaman stuff to cause GAS!
I noticed that the mom and pops around here all seem to be dropping Gibson and picking up other brands. It's the weirdest thing. Or maybe not, considering the reports of Gibby requiring $100k orders, full Epiphone and Slingerland lines in store, etc. |
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May 2005
Posts: 327
Location: Evansville,IN | My local guitar store, Musicians Den, carries Takamine, and Hamer. Never have looked to see if they carry Ovations, as I spend my time ogling the electrics, but will check the next time I go there. :)
Some companies like Gibson, and others, don't stop to realize not every store can place such large orders, and carry all their side lines too. They should stop and think that the mom & pop shops are where they started. How soon they forget. :( |
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August 2003
Posts: 396
| I tend to like the higher level Takamines I have played. I found the OM sized collector's edition to be great in every way except for unplugged sound. Good workmanship, nice inlay, great set-up, but the unplugged sound quality was not on line with a $1400 guitar. Plugged in it sounded better through the amp. Perhaps, I'm just not used to the sound of Om sized guitars. |
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April 2004
Posts: 13303
Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I have a '98 Takamine collectors that I thought sounded absolutely killer when I put it back in the case about 8 months ago to make more room for the new acoustic O's.
Took it out last weekend and played with it for about 2 hours unplugged. Man did it sound thin compared to the full sounds of the O's.
Plugged in, it really blossomed back into a wonderful sounding guitar...but unplugged I was shocked at how weak it sounded. |
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Kaman hits my local shop
