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Posted: 29 Mar 2003 9:10 am
by JB Arnold
Ray
That's fine, but only if you're gonna get one of those push-pull Oboes with the bolt on reed. It must be made of birdseye maple and be jet black. If you buy anything else the conformity police will show up at your door with a summons....
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Fessenden D-10 8&8
Mullen Royal Precision D-10 8 & 5
"All in all, looking back, I'd have to say the best advice anyone ever gave me was 'Hands Up, Don't Move!"
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Posted: 29 Mar 2003 10:10 am
by Donny Hinson
I see a lot of people "slamming" the new MSA...people who don't own one, and people who've never played one. To put it simply, I can't respect that. I make it a habit not to make disparaging remarks about guitars I don't own, like the Mullen, the ZB, the Zum, the Anapeg, etc., <u>because</u> I don't own one.
I own a p/p Emmons, and old MSA, the mew MSA, and an old Marlen. I feel qualified to make judgements on these guitars because I own them, and I've played them for a period of time. Other guitars, that I have limited time behind, I don't feel qualified to give an opinion on, but that's just me.
The new MSA clearly isn't for everyone, but no guitar out there is. If any one guitar were "head and shoulders" above the rest, <u>that</u> would be the one that everybody played. I've only owned 5 pedal guitars, and the "Mill" (as I call it) is the best guitar I've ever owned. The fact that it's made of Carbon Fiber was done for two reasons. The first was for stability and light weight, and the second was for coinsistency. Guitars made out of wood are terribly inconsistent, because wood itself is terribly inconsistent. This is why one of an identical model of any other guitar sounds different than another.
Carbon fibre can be made light, or heavy. It can be made porous, or it can be as dense as you like. The important fact is that these qualities can be almost <u>totally</u> controlled. With wood bodies, you never knew exactly how the guitar would sound until it was completed. You also never knew if it would sound the same 20 years from now. Composite technology makes all those problems history. It also guarantees you won't open the case one day and find a split in the body.
Mind you, these are other's opinions...not mine, but most everyone I've talked to admits that the new MSA sounds far better than the old one. And conversely, most people tell you that the newer Emmons' doesn't sound near as good as the old ones.
I reckon you can make your own judgements about which company's going in the right direction.