Any experience with McPhereson guitars?

[steve_man]

Just curious if any of you have one of these. I played one once, and really liked it.

 

Here's a link:

 

http://mcphersonguitars.com/activea.asp

[guitarist21]

When I saw the guitars, I thought of Tacoma. I realize they have slightly differently place soundholes, but I thought I'd bring up the following article and my (admittedly small) Tacoma playing experience anyway.

 

Guit30 posted an article from AG about the top ten guitars under $1000 (http://www.acousticguitar.com/issues/ag131/feature131.html) Tacoma was in there, and they said that the guitars have a better bass response to the player than the listener, which makes sense given the soundhole position. After having tried one, I'd have to agree with this sentiment, to a degree. OTOH, Don K has one and says they're nice and he has pretty good taste in guitars (check out his sig).

 

I would guess that a similar soundhole argument could be made against the McPhersons, but from a construction standpoint, its possible that the difference in bracing between any given Tacoma and any given McPherson (due to the slight difference in soundhole placement) is enough to cause a significant difference in sound.

 

Ellen

[DonK]

Originally posted by guitarist21 When I saw the guitars, I thought of Tacoma. I realize they have slightly differently place soundholes, but I thought I'd bring up the following article and my (admittedly small) Tacoma playing experience anyway. Guit30 posted an article from AG about the top ten guitars under $1000 ( http://www.acousticguitar.com/issues/ag131/feature131.html ) Tacoma was in there, and they said that the guitars have a better bass response to the player than the listener, which makes sense given the soundhole position. After having tried one, I'd have to agree with this sentiment, to a degree. OTOH, Don K has one and says they're nice and he has pretty good taste in guitars (check out his sig). I would guess that a similar soundhole argument could be made against the McPhersons, but from a construction standpoint, its possible that the difference in bracing between any given Tacoma and any given McPherson (due to the slight difference in soundhole placement) is enough to cause a significant difference in sound. Ellen

 

Thanks for the compliment about my guitars, but I should note that my Tacoma is a DR-20, pretty much a standard dreadnaught. Tacoma only makes a couple of guitars with the unorthodox soundhole - the Chief and the Papoose, I think - and I've never played one.

[learn'r]

If I remember right the necks not attached to the body in a standard way either. I guess that keeps that much more of the top working for ya. cantilevered.

 

now I got to go hear Phil Keaggy play again - he is featured as one of the artists. Rumor has it that a new CD is about to hit the market and PK used McP's for much of it.

 

http://mcphersonguitars.com/activea.asp

 

to answer you question - no experience at all.

I'm making it a long term goal though to own one.

MG5 thank you.

 

I'll get there - Lord Willin'.

[steve_man]

I was downtown Nashville a while back, and one of the shops on Music Row had these guitars. I picked up one with the bearclaw top and rosewood back/sides ($3000) and tried it out. Man, did it sound good. It played nice, and had a very even tone. I just wondered if someone had one long-term. I wonder how they hold up.

 

There seems to be a lot of people in Nashville playing them.

[learn'r]

 

Originally posted by steve_man I was downtown Nashville a while back, and one of the shops on Music Row had these guitars. I picked up one with the bearclaw top and rosewood back/sides ($3000) and tried it out. Man, did it sound good. It played nice, and had a very even tone. I just wondered if someone had one long-term. I wonder how they hold up. There seems to be a lot of people in Nashville playing them.

 

 

Love Nashville. (mostly)

was just down there a couple weeks ago.

[Preacher Will]

Jason Lovins, an acquaintance of mine, is one of their endorsers. I've had the chance to play his (MG-4.0?) and was quite impressed. Impeccable workmanship, as you would expect on a guitar of that price. I liked the neck, same width as my Taylor, nice radius, fast and comfortable. It had excellent projection and rich, balanced tones. I'm a flatpicker and Jason is mostly a strummer and it holds up well against agressive pick action. Can't say much for it fitting a fingerstylist. Definitely an eye catching stage guitar. I wouldn't turn one down as a gift and I wouldn't drop four grand on one either.

[Terry Allan Hall]

Taj Mahal was playing a couple when I saw him several years ago...over the sound system they sounded very full.

[steve_man]

Man, now I wanna play one again...