Someone on the late, lamented Acoustic Talk forum posited that each maker has an underlying "house sound", and with Taylor you hear the strings, while with Martin you hear the wood. (This seems to me to also capture the meaning when people talk about "traditionally" or "modern" voiced guitars.)
I lean much more to the Martin sound - though I haven't played any of the redesigned Taylors since the new guy took over.

Peter

Quote from: cozmik_cowboy on September 17, 2026, 05:07:34 AMSomeone on the late, lamented Acoustic Talk forum posited that each maker has an underlying "house sound", and with Taylor you hear the strings, while with Martin you hear the wood. (This seems to me to also capture the meaning when people talk about "traditionally" or "modern" voiced guitars.)
I lean much more to the Martin sound - though I haven't played any of the redesigned Taylors since the new guy took over.

Peter

I think Andy is getting the wire:wood ratio worked out... ^

This is a nice take on Dreams by Warren Haynes from his Symphonic Journey album.

I'm sure this has been posted somewhere in the forum. It just appeared in my youtube suggestions. There seems to be 2 mysterious basses on the stands to the left. I wonder if they are props?:

Quote from: DistillaMatto on Today at 01:08:04 AMI'm sure this has been posted somewhere in the forum. It just appeared in my youtube suggestions. There seems to be 2 mysterious basses on the stands to the left. I wonder if they are props?

It's probably the blurriness of the AI enhanced video, on top of the video compression artifacts - so we're seeing some guess-work details, and an overall ghost-like appearance. Note how the trumpet looks real, while the saxophone a lot of the time is just the general outline of the instrument, with varying degrees of the finer details in view.

The one on the right appears to be a Series I, and it may well be the one with the Bigsby (some metallic shape over the lower end of the body shifts into view at times) - not sure if that one had a graphite neck? The one on the left that pops up in pics and videos from around the same era is a Carl Thompson tenor or piccolo.