Martin, Taylor, Larrivee, or .....?

tubescreamer

As a good friend of mine owned a brilliant guitar shop in the UK, I'm lucky enough to own almost every major guitar preference available and all I can add to this forum is this:

The first real quality guitar I tried as a budding guitarist was a Taylor W15 which I subsequently bought coz the sound was better than anything I'd heard with my limited understanding. As my interest blossomed I tried a Martin which I didn't like and then a gibson with the same result, naive to say the least, however.

My experience level was low, but the sound that I got from my Taylor spurred me on, I was practising up to 10 hours a day on some occasions and my point is this, I consider myself to be a good guitarist now, but my choices were based totally on how that guitar made me feel at that time. Ten years later I now know and understand the differences between makes, models, woods and shapes, I record with a Taylor because its so good plugged straight in, play live with a Martin because it is THE classic acoustic sound, and jam and singalong with my friends on a Gibson with fine strings because of the wonderful brightness but none of that would've been possible if I hadn't had that early success with the Taylor, it didn't matter that it was a Taylor it mattered that I loved it and it had a massive effect on my desire to play. Find the guitar that makes you feel like that and you've won!

Good luck.

Geert

And the winner is ... Martin D-15!!! One word ... amazing!!!
Plays and sounds fantastic!

mca47

Play them all and whatever you like is your new guitar.
I tend to me more of a Taylor guy myself (just like the tone), but there are some amazing guitars out there from any company.