Vintage GG Signature. But which one?
Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2013 10:44 pm
Hello all,
This is my first post in this fine forum. I live in Brussels, played guitar on and off since the mid-sixties I play mostly electric but recently revert to my first love: acoustic folk music.
My current favourite acoustic is a Sigma copy of the all-mahogany Martin 000-15. I like the mature, warm 'brown' sound of the mahogany top which I found suits best to my style of playing: early Bob Dylan light strumming, Travis-style picking, single-note soloing à la Willie Nelson. I'm now into 'Celtic' fingerstyle guitar e.g. Richard Thompson, Martin Simpson, Bert Jansch and ... a certain Gordon Giltrap
At the same time, I discovered the Vintage GG Signature guitar. I fell in love with the 8-figure shape, the wide fretboard and the thick neck. I just have to get one but which one? The cedar top or the mahogany?
My problem is that the Vintage GG guitars are nowhere to be found in Belgium. So I will have to buy sight unseen via the Internet. The only clues as to how these guitars sound are from the youTube clips (which I found particularly thin and trebly).
So I trust you GG Sig owners on the forum to help me make my choice. What are the differences between the cedar-top model and the all-mahogany? How does the GG Signature compare with the Martin-style 000-15? Brighter, darker? Sustain? Volume? Boomy or plinky bass? Note-to note separation,...?
Thank you for your help.
This is my first post in this fine forum. I live in Brussels, played guitar on and off since the mid-sixties I play mostly electric but recently revert to my first love: acoustic folk music.
My current favourite acoustic is a Sigma copy of the all-mahogany Martin 000-15. I like the mature, warm 'brown' sound of the mahogany top which I found suits best to my style of playing: early Bob Dylan light strumming, Travis-style picking, single-note soloing à la Willie Nelson. I'm now into 'Celtic' fingerstyle guitar e.g. Richard Thompson, Martin Simpson, Bert Jansch and ... a certain Gordon Giltrap
At the same time, I discovered the Vintage GG Signature guitar. I fell in love with the 8-figure shape, the wide fretboard and the thick neck. I just have to get one but which one? The cedar top or the mahogany?
My problem is that the Vintage GG guitars are nowhere to be found in Belgium. So I will have to buy sight unseen via the Internet. The only clues as to how these guitars sound are from the youTube clips (which I found particularly thin and trebly).
So I trust you GG Sig owners on the forum to help me make my choice. What are the differences between the cedar-top model and the all-mahogany? How does the GG Signature compare with the Martin-style 000-15? Brighter, darker? Sustain? Volume? Boomy or plinky bass? Note-to note separation,...?
Thank you for your help.