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Location: big island | dave,
i have no doubt that guitar would do slack key very well. but the 1537 does it so well, i ain't gonna look further. not this month anyway... |
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Location: Alberta, Canada | That 1537 of yours sounds awesome! You certainly do not have a need to look further. How's the next youtube vid coming? |
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Location: big island | i was waiting for my voice to heal. bronchitis and too many dairy products! (i'm an ice cream junkie)
got a gig tomorrow night so i'll see how it does...
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Location: Alberta, Canada | Well go easy. Not something you want to push too hard. Hope the gig goes well! :) |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I must say, the EF75 keeps climbing it's way up my list of favorite guitars. Plays like a dream and the body size just feels so perfect. And like I said the sound is everything you could ask for. Seriously, if you are at all sitting on the fence about investing in a premium guitar you really need to consider the EF75. Dave |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | http://cgi.ebay.com/New-Rare-Takamine-EF75S-BRAZILIAN-ROSEWOOD-A-E-... |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Dave, since it is part of the Kaman family and we seem to have a bunch of them and growing, how about adding it to the serial number registration page? |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Bill, You must have missed my initial post when I mentioned I had #74!
So current tally is..............
#21 Debanjo
#61 tba
#71 cwk2
#72 Witco
#74 Stephent28
#82 Dave Old Hips Parker Colt45
#?? ProBB |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Where's Fugot, Noah, Tony and JeffW?
This should definitely be on their short list to grab!
MIKE!!!!! When you gonna call me???? |
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Location: Colorado | Stephent28 - should I lessen my bank balance and join the club? |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I wouldn't think twice about it. It is an incredible bargain for a terrific sounding guitar. Can't go wrong acoustic or plugged in.
Check the prior auctions to get a feel for the going price and then jump in. ProfBB and I went through Sigler and some others through BrotherBobby.
It has moved into my top 3. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by stephent28:
how about adding it to the serial number registration page? Sure. How 'bout Toca bongos as well? USA Gretsch drums are pretty cool as well. No. Gotta draw the line somewhere. By the way, Toca bongos (the higher end stuff) really ARE great.
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Hi Elgin! If you join this motley crew, we could hold our own Takamine jam here in Denver. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I have been playing the dread EF340S BG, the bluegrass mahogony dread and it's great, a little different sound than the 75. I keep coming back to the 75 for what Dave just said, it's comfortable. The dread seems to stretch my right shoulder after playing it a while, and while I like the boom, the 75 always seems a bit more balanced in tone. Tak really hit a hole in one on this guitar. I'll be using it the next couple of weeks at the Mermaid gig. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Well gee Dave.....I was just thinkin....you know....kinda keep it in the Kaman family....Toca bongos...do they have serials....I already have a damn uke because of you....hmmmmmm....bongos look nice.......can we register them on the ofc page....
besides....we got more known ef75J's than academy's :rolleyes: |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | I'll be using it the next couple of weeks at the Mermaid gig.
...uh, you have a gig as a Mermaid? |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I just noticed that one of the settings on my new Zoom A2.1u modeler is an Adamas tone replicator. This begs an interesting observation . . . I have a great Adamas II that I love, but here I am ready to play a Tak 75J through a modeler to see how close I can make it sound like the Ad-II. What would be the point? Maybe I'll try the National Reso-Phonic effect instead. I don't have one of those. |
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Location: Alberta, Canada | Originally posted by ProfessorBB:
I just noticed that one of the settings on my new Zoom A2.1u modeler is an Adamas tone replicator. This begs an interesting observation . . . I have a great Adamas II that I love, but here I am ready to play a Tak 75J through a modeler to see how close I can make it sound like the Ad-II. What would be the point? Maybe I'll try the National Reso-Phonic effect instead. I don't have one of those. PBB, any sign of yours?
As for modeling, you are not going to want or need to model the Tak after anything. It will not surprise me to see systems that have a model for the Tak EF75J...I believe it is that good.
Guys, have any of you tried different strings yet? If so, what did you try and what do think?
Just noticed a sticker on the case. It reads: Takimine, GC1530, NEX case. The top is arched and has TAKIMINE embossed into it above the top of the neck.
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Colt, I have some old National guitar ads, but no sign. Just checked UPS tracking . . . delivery is expected Friday, March 16. The warehouse is located in Ontario, California. I know the city well, or did at one time, as I was stationed there for six years while serving in the National Guard. The vineyards have been replaced with industrial strips. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | That's where the warehouse is these days. It used to be in beautiful downtown Compton. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by stephent28:
Well gee Dave.....I was just thinkin........we got more known ef75J's than academy's :rolleyes: Sorry Stephen, registration pages are limited to guitars with plastic backs.
Now, that's not to say there isn't a www.takaminegallery.com or www.myfavoritemartins.com in the works ... ;)
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Location: Colorado | Perfessor - I'll bring my numbered bongos too...But I'll be darned if I'll let a camera in the place again after those photos....thank God my students haven't seen them....or the finacial court system |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by elginacres:
Stephent28 - should I lessen my bank balance and join the club? Well??????? |
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Location: Alberta, Canada | This guitar just makes me smile!
I smile when I look at it; it is one of, if not the most, elegant looking guitars I have ever seen. Not gaudy, not over the top, just balanced elegance.
I smile when I play it; once again, just true balanced tone. The sound is sooo smooooth! I've never played a nicer sounding guitar, period. To my ear this puts out pure cream.
I smile when I think of the concerns I had over the width at the nut and whether the volumne would be a large compromize to a dread due to the OM body size. All unfounded. I said before it was comfortable to play, and I think few would disagree after spending some time on it. The volumne, altho less than my CB, is more than offset by the truely balanced full sound. Like others have said, this guitar puts out a sound out of porportion to its' size.
And I smile when I think back to when I felt a Takamine could not compete with my desire to buy a Martin. This guitar just kicked Martin of that high pedestal I had it on. No, I'm not running down Martin guitars. I still feel they are very good instruments, but this Takamine is as good as any Martin made, in my book.
And I smile at the fact that I would not have one of these beautiful guitars if I did not spend time here at the OFC. Bill, Stephen, Dave, thank you for putting in the time to get the word out and make a believer out of a sceptic. You all read my concerns and if not for your insistence in all that this guitar is, I probably would not have pursued this to the end. Of course 2 minutes with it at the music store proved every point you made.
For any of you sitting on the fence like I was, I seriously urge you to make the jump. Time is running out fast. You will not regret it.
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Nicely said. Thank You.
And best of all, it's all true. |
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