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  • MellishMellish Frets: 945
    Hummingbird in Vintage Cherry. If I tried it and it ticked all the boxes, there's no way I could leave it behind. Saying that, I'm happy with this HD-28 :) 
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  • woodywoody Frets: 72
    ive owned d28 Clarence white,d40,hd28v but preferred my santa cruz d. Best dread ive owned by a large margin to my ears was a goodall rs. 
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  • RicjoRicjo Frets: 11
    Cryptid said:
    +1 for Atkin. Recently picked up a D37 and it does something for me that no Martin I've tried or had ever did, including ones worth £6+

    Bad thing is that I now want more :open_mouth:  Probably a good thing they don't do a maple jumbo. 
    Who says they don’t?! 


    :)

    As for the HD vs D, the difference is noticeable if you play the two. If you’ve never played an HD, then you won’t know what you’re missing. But once you play a scalloped dreadnought, you notice. I had a Martin D35 and had to let it go for a scalloped dread (Atkin D37). Worlds apart, IMO. Although in the case of these two, there are more differences than just the bracing. Before the D35 I had a D16RGT which was scalloped and I felt (and missed) the difference when moving on to the D35.
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  • DavidRDavidR Frets: 595
    edited April 2022
    Ricjo said:
    Cryptid said:
    +1 for Atkin. Recently picked up a D37 and it does something for me that no Martin I've tried or had ever did, including ones worth £6+

    Bad thing is that I now want more open_mouth  Probably a good thing they don't do a maple jumbo. 
    Who says they don’t?! 




    As for the HD vs D, the difference is noticeable if you play the two. If you’ve never played an HD, then you won’t know what you’re missing. But once you play a scalloped dreadnought, you notice. I had a Martin D35 and had to let it go for a scalloped dread (Atkin D37). Worlds apart, IMO. Although in the case of these two, there are more differences than just the bracing. Before the D35 I had a D16RGT which was scalloped and I felt (and missed) the difference when moving on to the D35.
    This scalloped vs. non-scalloped issue is an interesting one. If I had 10 different sitka/rosewood dreadnoughts, 5 of which had scalloped bracing and 5 non-scalloped, I would be unable to differentiate the 2 groups with any high probability of success. 

     I think if I compared 2 different instruments I would always/usually find one was nicer, but I doubt that that would consistently down to bracing alone. As Ricjo has said above, there are more differences than just the bracing.

    I'm sure others could do this. I'm just saying I couldn't. In which case I'm lucky because, as regards dreadnoughts, I'm more easily satisfied, and that's cheaper!

    Also I like, almost exclusively, the woody sound of dreadnoughts with Monel strings when played with fingerpicks. That's my thing. All I really need is something a bit bassy, I can alter that bit of tone with different thumbpicks, and some sweet trebles, which I can usually find with varying other factors like attack, where I play on the string, dynamics and rubato.

    I was always impressed when I played classical in an ensemble how lifelong classical players seemed magically to bring out lovely sounds from virtually any instrument. I never could. I treated myself to an expensive luthier-made classical when I retired in an attempt to improve - but I didn't.

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  • CryptidCryptid Frets: 405
    Ricjo said:
    Cryptid said:
    +1 for Atkin. Recently picked up a D37 and it does something for me that no Martin I've tried or had ever did, including ones worth £6+

    Bad thing is that I now want more :open_mouth:  Probably a good thing they don't do a maple jumbo. 
    Who says they don’t?! 


    :)
    Damn, looks like I'd better be saving some funds! 
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