a forum member and i swapped(his baritone for my GC 12 fret). its a whimsical situation if you look at it for both of us. I don't think either of us have played the respective model we are receiving, and dollar for dollar they are about identical. He will be going from the longest to the shortest in Taylor length and i reverse in going from shortest to longest. its actually a lot of fun. no loss of $ value, just a few bucks for shipping, and the possibility to try out a whole new process to make music, and the opportunity to make a trade with and develop a long distance trust and relationship with a fellow forumite. quite a neat opportunity, i invite all of you to try trades out with our buds on here. i've done a few and came out really smiling in all of them.
i have some neat ideas for this baritione that i think will work out really fine, i will report back after some experimentation. if it works, its highly possible one could take a baritone and have a capo along, and have a tremendous workhorse of an instrument-able to access standard tuning with the slip of a capo, and lush deep tunings for dropped and altered music-and the whole time have the venerable Taylor neck/playability.
and then again i may have dove into a concrete pool head first with no water................
will report back in a week or so with pictures and thoughts.
