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As a bass player you can have one type of guitar- what would it be

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[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1338071697' post='1669391']
So it's really a semi-semi-acoustic archtop?
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[quote name='Dave Vader' timestamp='1338072145' post='1669399']
335s and the ilk are known as semi-solid to be super pedantic. Whereas the ES-175 is a semi acoustic.
Glad I could help....
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Thanks for that. *Dies*
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[quote name='Hobbayne' timestamp='1338079742' post='1669477']
My Strat, I cant get on with those hollow bodied things.
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[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1338106834' post='1669541']
But the Epiphone Casino is properly hollow - same as a Gibson ES-330.
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guys- calm down! the poll can be edited- and has been!

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If I could only have one guitar, it would have to be this one:

[IMG]http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n249/BigRedX/GusG1.jpg[/IMG]

Gus G1 Vibrato. It's the one I keep coming back to. However at the moment I'm mostly playing this:

[IMG]http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n249/BigRedX/DSC03082.jpg[/IMG]

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for me it would be a strat - the other guitar types just aren't versatile enough - A strat can do acoustic style strumming, fat plunky Jazz, twangy country, jangly pop, hard rock, chewy funk and everything in between. It's not the *best* at all those, but it will do them all acceptably.

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i think ishould have read the question a little better, it's semi acoustic that i voted (335 copy) but that was because i thoiught you were asking what i would reccomend (i love mine and with a coil tap and a piezo bridge it would cover most bases)
but if it was a house on fire moment or that nightmare (for me) situation of having to sell all but one of my guitars then my McIlroy acoustic would be the one i'd keep, nothing i've ever played comes close to how good it sounds and how well it plays, i still can't quite believe that it's mine and i've had it for just over 4 years.

[url="http://www.mcilroyguitars.co.uk/"]http://www.mcilroyguitars.co.uk/[/url]
(mines an AS25, walnut and cedar with pearwood bindings)

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[quote name='Ancient Mariner' timestamp='1338135355' post='1669959']
for me it would be a strat - the other guitar types just aren't versatile enough - A strat can do acoustic style strumming, fat plunky Jazz, twangy country, jangly pop, hard rock, chewy funk and everything in between. It's not the *best* at all those, but it will do them all acceptably.
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+1 - in fact, that`s exactly why I have a Strat. Replacement single-coil size Seymour Duncan Jeff Beck humbucker in the bridge, and it does hard-rock very nicely.

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[quote name='Matt P' timestamp='1338206703' post='1670741']
i think ishould have read the question a little better, it's semi acoustic that i voted (335 copy) but that was because i thoiught you were asking what i would reccomend (i love mine and with a coil tap and a piezo bridge it would cover most bases)
but if it was a house on fire moment or that nightmare (for me) situation of having to sell all but one of my guitars then my McIlroy acoustic would be the one i'd keep, nothing i've ever played comes close to how good it sounds and how well it plays, i still can't quite believe that it's mine and i've had it for just over 4 years.

[url="http://www.mcilroyguitars.co.uk/"]http://www.mcilroyguitars.co.uk/[/url]
(mines an AS25, walnut and cedar with pearwood bindings)
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Nice looking guitar that!

I think the route of the question is this- I'm moving house soon to leeds, and shortly after getting married. Currently studying a masters which has been great but money is dwindling- so money and space are not things I have loads of.
I have an amp and 2 basses- which are amazing- one of the great things about basschat is that i have owned amazing instruments and been able to sell them on and ended up settling with two that are exceptional.
I also have two guitars, a 1987 Takamine EN10 which is a lovely dreadnaught acoustic. sounds great and a lovely to play (and even better plugged in) and a 1984 Yamaha SG400 and a wee Line6 amp. again a really special instrument.
I can't play either really yet and was thinking along the lines of if I could only have one, either an electric or acoustic which would I go for? and why?
It seemed a good question to ask on here- and the results are certainly interesting. :)

As to what I will do? Not a clue, I know the old owner of the acoustic would take it back, and some time in the future if I wanted I could get some other acoustic (prob not a dreadnaught though) though I would be hard pressed to find one remotely close for the money. Like ways the Yamaha is a 'lower end' SG and not that valuable- but... you know when you pick up an instrument and it just feels 'right' and musical.... yeah it's one of them. prob I will keep both and struggle for space and cash :)

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Definitely keep them both. I've never willingly parted with any instruments... that includes my recorder from infants school :D
There all so unique, even the terrible ones, and yes I do pretty much live in a music shop lol

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[url="http://www.flickr.com/photos/50579126@N03/6127948660/"][/url]
[url="http://www.flickr.com/photos/50579126@N03/6127948660/"]Black Strat[/url] by [url="http://www.flickr.com/people/50579126@N03/"]Plastic Squirrel[/url], on Flickr

This one. It is the one that I would be carrying out of my house while it burned to the ground, stepping over my wife and apologising to her and hoping she understands.
(And leaving all my basses and other guitars to burn)
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Can't say as I blame you - that is seriously :wub:

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I'd have a Bass guitar!!!



No really if you are talking the 6/12 string short things I'd have a Semi Acoustic Epiphone or the like.

Currently my guitar is this: [url="http://www.orangetreesamples.com/strawberry-electric-guitar"]http://www.orangetreesamples.com/strawberry-electric-guitar[/url] and this:[url="http://www.orangetreesamples.com/evolution-acoustic-guitar-steel-strings"] http://www.orangetreesamples.com/evolution-acoustic-guitar-steel-strings[/url]

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