This is such a wonderful thread, thank you. From this and others these last few weeks I've leaned to understand a lot about my guitar and how to adjust to my needs. But even more than that I have learned to be more confident about how my guitar is set up and if it changes- what I can do, and what I can have done, and that I have many choices for strings and how they might make a difference.
Before I got my Taylor GC3 I only knew that a guitar seemed to play well for me or that something might be wrong. I didn't know how much I could affect he guitar by how I used a pick, how hard I strummed, how I or others could adjust the guitar for how I played.
I am pretty thrilled about all of this and realized his morning that bar chords were easier as I practice and that I was grateful for the difference knowledge has made. I also realized that I've probably been playing too much which simply takes the strength out of my hands- oh the joys of getting older where defiance and determination are sometimes what it takes to just keep going instead of fulfilling a fantasy of greatness.
I'm old enough to realize this will probably be my last guitar and I think I've picked well. Barring health stuff some of us get like arthritis, I hope to be able to play another five years. I am comfortable with this but realize Pete Seger played well beyond his seventies so maybe...
If I were at this point to fantasize about a fancier guitar, it would probably still be a Taylor, still a Grand Concert but maybe the 12 fret or a cedar over rosewood as my hearing works better with warmer, more mellow sounds, or find how to achieve that with what I have.
Thank you, everyone who is contributing and I think now it's all about playing, if nothing else I simply love to listen to the sweet sound every time I pick it up.
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