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To: Scoutmaster

Does Collins make acoustic baritone guitars?


19 posted on 09/09/2011 8:07:20 AM PDT by Dick Vomer (democrats are like flies, whatever they don't eat, they sh#t on.)
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To: Dick Vomer

When hay is now considered a pollutant, anything and everything can be considered illegal, Cheerios and serpentine belts included.


20 posted on 09/09/2011 8:10:11 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: Dick Vomer
Does Collins make acoustic baritone guitars?

No. I just checked and I don't see them in Collings' standard line of acoustics, mandolins, ukuleles, archtops, and electric guitars. I think Taylor may be the only one of the large manufacturers and the medium-sized manufacturers that makes an acoustic baritone (in both eight- and six-string). I don't see one in Martin's offerings, but I'll bet the Custom Shop makes one. They made a tenor guitar for me a few years ago, when it was not a catalogue item.

A few years ago - given that Bill Collings started as essentially a 'one-of' custom shop - you probably could have ordered one then. I doubt that's the case now.

The addition of mandolins, ukuleles, archtops, and electric guitars is fairly new.

Collings started out trying to make modern versions of pre-WWI Martins. They've done it better than anyone else, in my opinion (and in the opinion of most). I own several Collings - as well as several Martins, both standard and Custom Shop models, that are built to pre-WWII specs, down to the bracing, type of glue, etc.

The Martins are wonderful guitars, but the Collings simply blow the Martins away (including a Martin Brazilian Rosewood D-28 Golden Era, made to pre-WWII specs) if you're looking for a pre-WII sound. They boom like cannons. If you were a flackpicker playing a Collings D2H in a bluegrass group, I sometimes joke with banjo players that a vintage Gibson Grenada would need a mic to play leads over the Collings.

Every standard Collings matches the quality of a Custom Shop Gibson, or high-end standard or Custom Shop Martin - and is above the quality of most Custom Shop Fenders I've owned.

21 posted on 09/09/2011 9:08:33 AM PDT by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred.)
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To: Dick Vomer

“Does Collins make acoustic baritone guitars?”

National does. but ya gotta like resos.


24 posted on 09/09/2011 9:55:28 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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