On 10/05/2016 13:20, David van Ooijen wrote:
Friend of mine is looking at this factory (?) b-guitar. Anybody has
experience with this?
[1]http://www.mid-east.com/Strings/Roosebeck-Guitars/Roosebeck-Sellas-B
aroque-Guitar-5-course-Zachary-Taylor-Blemished
They are selling for £350 in Britain. I had a go on one (I think it's
the same instrument) last year but only for a couple of minutes at the
most. As a first reaction, it seemed OK to me. It wasn't too heavy and
sounded well enough.
Maybe if I had tried it for a couple of hours I might think differently
but... it seemed OK.
There was a discussion about these guitars on Ning EG&V a few years ago
and a maker opened one up and thought it was far too heavily braced and
consequently lacked volume. That was a few years ago, though.
One thing I'd certainly check is whether the nylon frets are actually
moveable. On some of these instruments the frets are tied into notches
on the fingerboard and so you can't move them (unless you remove the
frets and fill in the notches)
Stuart
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