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Mark
Ha`aha`a
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 Posted - 10/01/2003 : 4:38:30 PM
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Hey, just saw this thread.
I have a wonderful little solid koa nylon-stringed puppy from Island Strings. (Peter Leiberman, ex of Lahaina) The back, sides, tops, neck, fingerboard, even the position dots are highly figured koa...
And it's a travel guitar, so two threads with one post!
I keep it tuned up a minor third from standard. It sounds wonderful -- very old-timey. In fact, it sounds quite a bit like some very old non-steel stringed parlor guitars I've played over the years.
I've a picture on my website: http://www.mark-o.com/Instruments.html
No sound clips yet, but it is featured on my new CD.
FYI: I'm starting to hear about some luthiers using African Black Acacia in classical guitars. The wood is very similar to koa in appearance and tonal characteristics -- and not endangered. In fact, they are knocking down groves of the stuff to build shopping centers in California!
onward,
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waveriderjon
Aloha
USA
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Posted - 10/12/2003 : 2:42:24 PM
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Don't know much about koa wood (dum da dum)
Don't know much about tops or sides (da dum da dum)
But I do know that I love......
O.K. sorry, I'll try not to do this again. Try a mahogony guitar next time you're in a music store. I have one and it rings like a bell, I feel(in my novice opinion) that it's probably very close to koa,(but I don't really know).
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