What a price for a great quality

Advantages: Preamp with intergrated tuner, well constructed, rich, warm tone
Disadvantages: Quite heavy to carry on stage

...My friend bought me this guitar last year as a birthday gift and that's probably the best gift I've ever had. This Takamine guitar has a Rosewood fretboard and a cutaway shape, which allows playing at the higher frets with ease. The first time I played it, the guitar produced a clear and warm tone that just took me right away. It even sound better when plugged into the amp. The pre-amp of this guitar has a built-in tunner, which is great for beginners who dont know how to tune the strings. Even for me, when playing gigs, this tuner is really helpful if I want to change the tuning. I cam play all styles of music with this guitar, but I love to play Jack Johnson's with it. \the strumming sounds great with warm and full tone. Just really love it. And the best thing about this guitar, is the price! Whe my friend gave it to me, I...

mt0902 29.05.2009 · Read review
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Review of Takamine EG341SC

Tomcats Fighting Over The Lady Feline.

Advantages: This is a well-built guitar that has plenty of appeal and sounds like the most expensive guitars on the market.
Disadvantages: This guitar has BRIDGE PINS! GOD, I HATE BRIDGE PINS!

...If you've ever read my profile page with a serious interest (i.e. not just skimming over it in order to find out if I'm the nymphomaniac most of you suspect me to be), you'll probably notice a very small blurb that indicates I am a guitarist. Yes, I play the acoustic guitar - a Takamine G-Series, to be more precise. I've been playing on and off since I was about eight years old (more "off" than "on" trust me). When I first started, I could pick up even the most beautiful, perfectly built guitar and my solos would sound like...Tomcats fighting over the lady feline. Howling, off-key, grinding crap that annoyed my mother and drove half of my four siblings delightfully mad! Oh yes, Sarah did suck royally!!! Well, eventually I outgrew the student guitar that I had been attempting to play for several years. Sometime during my...

Sarah_B 12.12.2001 · Read review
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Review of Takamine G-Series

Great mid-price electro acoustic

Advantages: A nice, affordable guitar - and available left handed!
Disadvantages: The Graphic eq is not that effective.

...I bought my Takamine G series (EG54 left handed) about 2 years ago, and simply love playing it. I admit I'm not a huge fan of acoustic music, but this guitar certainly helped. Its a pleasure to play, with an amp or without - the neck is nice and fast for an acoustic and just feels good to play. The guitar has some weight to it as well, which i like, as it feels like your are actually playing a crafted instrument rather than some plastic cheap toy. Add to this that it looks awesome, and you have a really pleasing instrument. The simple to use controls like gain, eq bypass and the 3 band Eq make dialling in a fairly great tone easy, and although i don't really need the tuner, its handy as a quick reference to make sure your really in tune. However, I've found that the 3 band tuner mentioned above doesn't really have a huge effect to...

GBYBrick 12.11.2006 · Read review
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Review of Takamine G-Series

Run Miku! Run like the wind!

Advantages: It's so scary! Fantastic graphics.
Disadvantages: Voice acting and Miku's running speed.

...Age rating:16+ 1 player 1800 KB space required on memory card. (Known as Fatal Frame by fanatic fans and in different countries.) I've been planning to play this months ago, my thought process on this was something along the lines of 'Ghosts? As if that's going to scare me!' Oh how very wrong I was.... The game starts with the heroine's brother entering Himuro mansion. Mafuyu enters this abandoned place because his mentor, the novelist Takamine, came to this place with his editors and the group haven't been seen since. When Mafuyu comes to the house, all he has is a flashlight, papers, pens and a old camera. As you search the mansion a creaking noise slowly comes up the stairs and you know somethings out to get Mafuyu, this part of the game is where the weapon is revealed (well you'd already know what it is if you've read...

Mistybrook 18.11.2008 (19.11.2008) · Read review
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Review of Project Zero (PS2)

A big boomy guitar

Advantages: For live singer and a guitar stuff it is great
Disadvantages: For recording with a band it has too much bass.

...I have been playing guitar for about 15 years and, until earlier this year my only acoustic was a Takamine ltd 98. I wanted to buy a guitar that I could use for recording as the Takamine is great for live work with all its electronic wizardry but not so hot for recording. While I was on holiday in Canada this summer (Halifax) I found a 1977 Guild D25 in the folk music store for $500 cdn, it is finished in a beautiful translucent red colour, which I guess has darkened over the years. It has a few bumps and scraps but it was not the looks, and it does look good, that attracted me to this guitar. The sound is awesome. I am a singer/songwriter and I did a few gigs in Canada over the summer with a borrowed Fender acoustic, as soon as I bought the Guild I started using this for the live work, it has such a big boomy bass sound that it...

margyle 28.08.2001 · Read review
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Review of Guild D25 Acoustic Guitar

Tried And Tested, These DO. NOT. SUCK.

Advantages: These strings are affordable, and have never given me a problem.
Disadvantages: As with any other strings, these will NOT make newbie guitarists sound like seasoned pros. Oh, well.

...strings sealed inside of it – thus, it’s environmentally responsible, and buyers can feel a twinge of do-goodiness over that. The strings themselves are very easy to string up, and are very long, which means they will adequately fit pretty much every acoustic guitar ever made. This also means that I have about five inches worth of excess string to clip off, but that doesn’t bother me as long as I don’t manage to poke my eye while cutting them! As for the “feel” of these strings…they are not very slick at all, and are best suited (in my opinion) for folkish music or finger picking. Jimi Hendrix songs won’t be covered very well with these strings, I’m sad to say! The sound of these strings depends partly on the guitar. I have used them on my Takamine G-240 mostly: This combination...

Sarah_B 08.02.2002 · Read review
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Review of D'Addario Guitar Strings

Nautical themed guitars? Whats next?

Advantages: Beautiful guitar, rich sound and great construction
Disadvantages: Pre-amp can have a little high treble.

...The compass series are one of the most natural feeling mid range series of guitar on the market. This may come from the fact that half the series is handcrafted! They are based on various corners of the world. This guitar is more middle range of the compass, but very similar to CpxN which is based on the suns and seas of the northern artic. I've had mine for almost a year, bought for £550 - I had some money knocked off of it because of a small blemish on the headstock but, as a performer, perfect aesthetics aren't my biggest concern. Before buying I tried out a variety of guitars ranging from £400 - £700 including Takamine, Crafter and lower range Martins. Aesthetics Mine is a bleach blonde finish. I've always found coloured guitars a little bit tacky. With such a natural look, the guitar really bring you back down to earth, it...

martirya 10.11.2007 · Read review
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Review of Yamaha CPX15 Handcrafted Acoustic Electric Guitar

A MASA features for the money!

Advantages: Sound, Construction, Interface
Disadvantages: Strings (see within)

...of the guitar head. The combination of the gloss finish and the excellent equipment results in superb looks. Durability ~~~~~~~~ Although I have only owned this for about 6 months now, I have not noticed anything go wrong at all with it, this instrument seems very durable despite the odd smash off the electric piano or hifi. A number of friends and myself believe that the construction is easily comparable to that of a Takamine acoustic or another guitar of a similar stature. Playability ~~~~~~~~ I have found this acoustic a very easy guitar to play, despite being a beginner to acoustic guitar when I first started playing it. The dimensions of the fret board and the body of the instrument are absolutely perfect meaning that learning the optimum playing stance is easy for beginners. Modifications ~~~~~~~~~~~ One thing which I have...

MatthewForshaw 29.01.2004 (31.01.2004) · Read review
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Review of Ibanez SX72 MASA Commemorative Acoustic-Electric Guitar

She Was The Only One Who Could Really Satisfy Me

Advantages: Looks great, sounds great, well put together
Disadvantages: No scratch guard

...and the usual plastic bar which forms the actual bridge. The strings simply thread through holes at the back of the wooden section and over the bridge - no faffing about with pins or any complicated twisting. Everything about this guitar screams quality and great design. The manufacturer has gone to the trouble of making sure that all the elements are complementary. Not only that, if you take a closer look it’s obvious that this instrument has been well put together. My guitar teacher, Barry a beard wearer and local folk music merchant, explained to me that Crafter were a Korean company who had only recently entered the guitar-making market. Like the Japanese companies (e.g. Yamaha) twenty years ago, there has been a recent influx of Korean companies making instruments (I think Takamine are another one?) The upshot is they are making good...

Paiceyjohn 23.01.2002 · Read review
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Review of Crafter TD-06

Guild JF30 guitar. One more time. Updated.

Advantages: Super quality guitar. Something to be proud of.
Disadvantages: Expensive

...yourself to a Rolls Royce of an instrument, a Guild JF30 should give you years of pleasure. The first one I saw was actually a twelve string. It was on the wall of a Birmingham shop called PMT. I know. But it doesn't mean, 'Practise More Twiddles,' which is obviously what PMT suggests at first. It means Professional Music Technology. This shop has a wall of electric guitars that would justify a long drive on a Saturday for a keen musician. It's one to worship at. As soon as a guitarist walks into the room we're pretty much assured of a mouth-hanging-wide-open situation. However, on the other side of this large shop there are many acoustic guitars: stagey black Yamahas, Takamines with their curious split bridges, Washburns of great quality - the list goes on. But in a small room set to the side of all this are the really good guitars. It...

FlameDruid 08.09.2004 (26.01.2005) · Read review
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Review of Guild JF30 Acoustic Guitar