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| Looking for an om size, or so, and someone I know swears by this series (Taylor GC). Anyone own or play one? Opinion. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I have DDSM which I would consider close to an OM in size. Very comfortable to play and sounds excellent plugged in with the LR Baggs system.
I have played most of the Taylor models and the DDSM is the only model that even attempted to talk to me. |
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Location: Vernon CT | Never have played one, but if you got the money, enjoy a Brighter tone AND are willing to take the abuse here, Go for it!! ;) |
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Location: East Tennessee | Do what I did......
Get an OM.
Now where's my Staples "Easy Button"? |
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Location: south east Michigan | A DDSM once tried to seduce me.
She was very nice but definatly a high maintainance type of chick.
Not my type. |
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Location: ms | I put a LRBAGGS in a GC Taylor for a friend. I had it for a couple of days and to tell the truth it didn`t do much for me. It looked good and played good but my 415CE sounds much better. Hey you could buy my 415CE. a little bigger than a OM but i can`t play dreads much anymore but have no trouble with the 15 Taylors. Matter of fact i find them more comfortable that the 14s and feels as good as my 000 Martin to me. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | OM is good but I just swear at Taylors Get a Collings or Takamine or Santa Cruz. |
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | The GC5's not bad...and the new ones are a slotted headstock, which is kind of cool.
Personally, I'd go for a Larrivee OM instead...or if you've got the bucks to work with, take Beal's advice and get a Collings. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Larrivee is good, so is Froggy Bottom. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | OM is my favorite size guitar. Look at Takamine, Martin and Collings. Taylor does not interest me at all. Dave |
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Location: Vernon CT | Originally posted by Mauvais Beal:
Larrivee is good, so is Froggy Bottom. If I had heard of Larrivee's b/4 I bought my Taylor I would have thought long and hard.
Larrivee's are incredible guitars for the money. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | yes they are. Frogs are too. There are a lot of good ones out there. |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | Before I had the Jewel built, I played a lot of everything in the $1000-$4000 range. I wasn't in a store that carried any Collings or Larrivees, so I didn't know that they existed back then. But...I played a bunch of Taylors, and none of them spoke to me at all.
I have played one Larrivee since then, and it was a great guitar--not too deep, and very, very comfortable.
--Karen |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Lowden is another overlooked very very nice guitar.
My S23C is awesome and JeffW has one that every member who has played it has raved about. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | True dat. |
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Location: Tennessee | Put a Lakewood M-32 into the mix too. Not many folks know them, but they are not expensive especially for what you get. www.lakewood.de |
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OT - Taylor GC series