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Joined: January 2005 Posts: 4903
Location: Phoenix AZ | Went to GC Tempe AZ on Saturday and was blown away that about 1/3 of their acoustic room was now taken over by Breedlove. Anyone seen this in other GC's ???
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Joined: December 2005 Posts: 149
Location: New York, NY | The GC in Manhattan only has 2 of them. They are beatuiful sounding and looking instruments. |
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Joined: March 2004 Posts: 629
Location: Houston, Texas | Are these the Korean made ones? A local Mom&Pop store carries them and I've been really quite impressed with their sound and playability. The workmanship is good but they do seem to lack some attention to detail. |
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Joined: October 2005 Posts: 5331
Location: Cicero, NY | In the Syracuse acoustic room (the higher end room, that is), it's a couple of Gibsons, one or two Tak's, 6-7 Martin's and about 15 very average sounding Taylor's. |
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Joined: March 2005 Posts: 12759
Location: Boise, Idaho | I was in our GC Friday night. They used to have the Breedloves front and center, but moved them to the back. They have a bunch of low end Martins they are trying to push. Only had a couple of US made Ovations. |
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 Joined: September 2003 Posts: 9301
Location: south east Michigan | I have seen them here, also. |
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Joined: January 2002 Posts: 970
Location: Atlanta,Ga. | The overseas Breedlove guitars are built by "Crafters guitars". |
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Joined: October 2004 Posts: 256
Location: chicago | Yeah, a lot of Breedloves in the chicago area GC they are nice but pricey with a very distinct low end sound to them that im not that crazy about, the gc I go to also had a rainsong 12 string that was single handedly the best sounding and easiest to play twelver EVER!NICE!
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Joined: March 2006 Posts: 1634
Location: Chehalis, Washington | I haven't gotten the chance to play the US Breedloves, but I hear good things about them. From what I've been told, they shame most Taylors for the price.
Have to check our local GC and see what they've got. |
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Joined: March 2002 Posts: 15677
Location: SoCal | In my ever so humble opinion, most Larrives and Breedloves, are much better guitars than Taylors, in the same price range. I'd probably include Guilds with the L's & B's as well.... |
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 Joined: April 2004 Posts: 13303
Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | My local GC has their "special" guitars in a humidified room that is about 15 x 8. One wall is Taylor, one is Martin and the 3rd wall and floor is mostly Breedloves.
The Atlas is a great sounding guitar for the money. I was not equally impressed by their high end $2500- $4000 guitars/ |
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Joined: January 2005 Posts: 4903
Location: Phoenix AZ | I didn't try any of the BLs, nor was I interested to. It just struck me when I went into the room like "holy sh*t there's a lot of BL's in here..."
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 Joined: December 2004 Posts: 4394
Location: East Tennessee | My last visit I noticed more Breedloves than previous visits. Maybe 3-4 and more of the low end Martins,(OOOM & OOOX1) than before. I was trying out an acoustic amp so I went straight for a used Balledeer. The kid in the acoustic room just gave me a blank look. :D |
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Joined: April 2006 Posts: 1138
Location: CT | Harmony Central has a lot of bad things to say about the imports, with questionable fit & finish and uninspired tone. Lots of people love the USA ones though. At first I didn't realize they made them overseas. It's easy to differentiate them by the different headstock shape and location of the logo. I wonder how long 'till Taylor starts up an overseas plant. |
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Joined: March 2002 Posts: 15677
Location: SoCal | Anybody notice that Ovations are no longer in the Harmony-Central reveiws? |
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Joined: November 2003 Posts: 11039
Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | ???? WTF. |
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Joined: March 2006 Posts: 1634
Location: Chehalis, Washington | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
???? WTF. Translation: "Where's The Fairness?" |
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Joined: March 2002 Posts: 14842
Location: NJ | f@ck Harmony Central.
I have yet to read an objective review there.
It's either some yahoo that spent a shit a sh!tload of money on something and writes a glowing review to justify his/her purchase, or it's some asswipe that's a wannabe movie-critic and trashes a product just for the sake of doing so . . . |
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 Joined: December 2003 Posts: 13996
Location: Upper Left USA | In my youth (three years ago) I posted one or two of those "better-n-fresh-baked-bread" reviews on the Hormoney site only to find that on three occasions someone listed my Ovations for sale at discount prices.
Internet, bah! |
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 Joined: April 2004 Posts: 13303
Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Moody, what are you talking about? :confused:
Ovation Reviews
Same place they have always been. |
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Joined: March 2002 Posts: 15677
Location: SoCal | Interesting. I went to the link I normally go to and couldn't find them. Nice to know they're still up.
And if anybody can figure out what I'm normally talking about, can they please let me know? |
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Joined: November 2003 Posts: 11039
Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I couldn't find Ovation listed in the manufactures and then did a search for "Ovation" and nothing was found. Seems fine now thoough. Strange. |
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Joined: October 2005 Posts: 33
Location: vienna, west virginia | cliff
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Icon 1 posted October 11, 2006 11:48 AM Reply With Quote f@ck Harmony Central.
I have yet to read an objective review there.
It's either some yahoo that spent a shit a sh!tload of money on something and writes a glowing review to justify his/her purchase, or it's some asswipe that's a wannabe movie-critic and trashes a product just for the sake of doing so . . .
i posted a review about a breedlove i bought from a mom and pop local store a year or so back... it was indeed a glowing review but this particular instrument has proven worthy of such. i have been playing guitar since 1971 and have had and still own several high end instruments such as my gibson LP goldtop deluxe, 1969, a guild F-48, a couple of O's including a pretty sweet breadwinner... the AC25/SR+ was purchased for just under $600 with hardshell case. so i dont think i overpaid by too much... either way when i pick this instrument up and begin to play, it makes me want to sing... it fits me, sounds as i like my guitars to sound and has not let me down yet on a gig... consider me to be an asswipe or a yahoo, i could care less. your perceptions do not define me... personally i've always figured i was just another musician trying to scratch out a living doing what he loves... thanks. |
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Joined: March 2005 Posts: 12759
Location: Boise, Idaho | Asswipe and yahoo are merely terms of endearment for Cliff. If he calls you a lawyer, watch it. |
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Joined: October 2005 Posts: 33
Location: vienna, west virginia | heh heh! thanks mark... i'll try to remember that |
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