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fender shortscale acoustic (new?)
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fender shortscale acoustic (new?)
i have no idea if this is new or not. but i want one.
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dots wrote:incesticide
Laminate top, back & sides. 1.69" nut width (presumably 1-11/16"). 23.3" scale length.
FWIW, I've a Baby Taylor, 22-3/4" scale length, all wood. Sounds good for what it is but you can certainly hear the difference vs. a full-size guitar. I got it as a travel guitar, but barely used it for that. A wasted purchase, really, in retrospect. At home I play my other, full size acoustics, which sound much bigger and better.
Another model that often gets mentioned in discussions of this type is the Lariveee Parlor. which has a 24" scale.
Historically Fender hasn't had the best rep for acoustic guitars, but whether that applies currently I've no idea. I've played some old Fender acoustics that were truly mediocre instruments or worse, but the Fender who made those acoustics, back then, was a completely different company really.
In an electric guitar, short scale does not necessarily mean quieter or worse tone, because you have pickups to amplify the sound. In acoustic guitars, these very short scale instruments typically come in smaller bodies too, and the smaller body size plus lower string tension of the shorter scale makes for less sound out, and one doesn't have the pickups to disguise that fact.
Actually I do have a pickup in the Baby Taylor (long story) and it still sounds like a smaller box (though amplified). Easy to play though, of course.
FWIW, I've a Baby Taylor, 22-3/4" scale length, all wood. Sounds good for what it is but you can certainly hear the difference vs. a full-size guitar. I got it as a travel guitar, but barely used it for that. A wasted purchase, really, in retrospect. At home I play my other, full size acoustics, which sound much bigger and better.
Another model that often gets mentioned in discussions of this type is the Lariveee Parlor. which has a 24" scale.
Historically Fender hasn't had the best rep for acoustic guitars, but whether that applies currently I've no idea. I've played some old Fender acoustics that were truly mediocre instruments or worse, but the Fender who made those acoustics, back then, was a completely different company really.
In an electric guitar, short scale does not necessarily mean quieter or worse tone, because you have pickups to amplify the sound. In acoustic guitars, these very short scale instruments typically come in smaller bodies too, and the smaller body size plus lower string tension of the shorter scale makes for less sound out, and one doesn't have the pickups to disguise that fact.
Actually I do have a pickup in the Baby Taylor (long story) and it still sounds like a smaller box (though amplified). Easy to play though, of course.