Guild Songbird

[marcellis]

I needed a guitar for my one-man-band thing I was doing in law school. There was a famous music store on Staten Island. I called - can't remember the name.

Anyway, my preference was a Song Bird. 2d choice Ovation. The sales guy bad-mouthed the Song Bird and it's lack of acoustic qualities, I bought the Ovation.It was perfect for my specific needs. But for a long time, I wondered how that Songbird would have fared. (BTW, that jerk sales guy just raved on and on about a brand I'd never heard of, a 'TAYLOR'. It was supposedly the be all and end all for guitars, never mind, I specifically wanted a guitar for a certain purpose the Taylor could not do. He just kepgoing on and on about how great these Taylors supposedly.

In 1972, I went shopping for an Ovation like Glenn Campbell played 1972. But then I pulled a small red dread down from the store wall and the salewas made. A 1972 flat-back cherry red D-25. I waited a few days. But the first strum was all she wrote. I was a Guild fanatic.

It's ironic. In 1972 I was shopping for an Ovation but I bought a Guild.
In 1989, I was shopping for a Guild but I bought an Ovation. Both times I bought the right guitar.

 

[The Guilds of Grot]

Mandolin Brothers?

 

[marcellis]

yeah Mandolin Brothers.

 

[Nuuska]

Joni Mitchell - Song For Sharon :

" I went to Staten Island to buy myself a mandolin..."

 

[adorshki]

Joni Mitchell - Song For Sharon :

" I went to Staten Island to buy myself a mandolin..."

:glee:
Lotta Joni love 'round here.

 

[mavuser]

This guy has a 2002 Corona S4CE with no electronic controls at all (just a passive pickup)

It should be the deeper-bodied version, but I can't tell in the video.

 

[Nuuska]

Howdy

Pictures of my guitars are gone - there is remark "update your account" - does this mean I have to start paying photobucket so my pics remain in internet? If so - they can go. . . . .

 

[Bonneville88]

This guy has a 2002 Corona S4CE with no electronics at all!

It should be the deeper-bodied version, but I can't tell in the video.

Sure looks & sounds like it's plugged in to me....and yeah, looks like the deeper bodied version.
Nice tune, good playing and singing. This guy has several videos, just checked out a couple.

I have a Songbird, still getting to know it... if I can.

 

[Bonneville88]

Couple of pics... very cool blue-green color that
really changes around depending on lighting conditions.
Labeled S4BG.

 

[mavuser]

Sure looks & sounds like it's plugged in to me....

thanks i edited my post. "no knobs or slider preamp" is what the video description says (must be a passive pickup)

 

[mavuser]

very nice BGBG songbird variant, Bonneville88! (blue green barry gibb?) the "BG's" indeed!

 

[Bonneville88]

mav - thanks man!
It's a cool axe... except the electronics cut out if I try to play anything other than
BeeGees or Gibb tunes, which is pretty weird.

 

[beecee]

Had mine out to play last night for the first time in a long time. Had it out to take some pix but they stunk...and I don't know how to post.

Sure sounds good at 11:30 when everyone else is asleep.

 

[swiveltung]

I have a Songbird. It is one of my favorite guitars. Great for out on the porch and good if plugged in at a gig. Not loud enough for around the campfire with dreadnaughts for sure though! Fingers like an electric. Somewhat middy, lacking big bottom end Since I got my F4CE-NT, I prefer it ......more like a bigger acoustic.

 

[walrus]

That's a beauty, Bonneville88! Love those Barry Gibb models!

walrus

 

[Bonneville88]

Thanks walrus! Not sure it's a keeper but it's interesting as one of the
newer kids on the block - wanted to try one for the longest time.

swiveltung... agreed... it actually does sound surprisingly good
as a "quiet" acoustic. The playing-quietly-late-at-night thing... best
guitar I've ever owned for that!

 

[adorshki]

Howdy
Pictures of my guitars are gone - there is remark "update your account" - does this mean I have to start paying photobucket so my pics remain in internet?

Yes Nuuska, there were some very discontented members discussing that problem with Photobucket in the last couple of months.

If so - they can go. . . . .

And some of those same members did tell 'em to do just that and migrated to IMgur.

I have a Songbird. It is one of my favorite guitars. Great for out on the porch and good if plugged in at a gig. Not loud enough for around the campfire with dreadnaughts for sure though! Fingers like an electric.

That was basically the model's mission statement.

 

[flattop]

I’ve been playing a Songbird (thin body) as my main gig guitar since 1993 when I bought it new. I usually play solo, through a P.A., and it has a really good acoustic sound. When I play with a band, I use an amp: flat settings for acoustic rhythm or finger picking, and alternate amp/delay settings for rock or blues sounds.