SFIV1967
Venerated Member
As a general remark, please don't just post any videos here unless you post them together with the picture.
It's really supposed for what the thread title is: "Your favorite picture(s) of an artist playing a Guild?"
Videos can be posted under a thread in "Music" for instance.
Now trying to find an answer to Dan's question. What I read is (and you know, what's written on the internet is true...only Hans would know the exact model numbers) that Ralph Towner plays mostly two custom-made Guild 12-string guitars. Both have classical-width necks, no pickguard, and no fingerboard ornamentation. The guitar he tours with has a cutaway and is kept at standard pitch.
I read in another blog that Towner had first a F-212. Shortly after followed at least two custom-made Guilds: a Florentine cutaway F-212 (or F-312) and an abalone-less fretboard F-512: the first mahogany bodied and the second in Brazilian Rosewood, both with flat, classical-like 52 mm at nut fretboards as per Ralph's wishes, needing the same room he was used to while playing his classical guitar.
But as can be seen in the 3rd picture he also played "normal" F-512 as it looks.
So I didn't find a 100% correct answer anywhere. Lot's of different and conflicting info on the web as usual.
There was even this:
Ralf
It's really supposed for what the thread title is: "Your favorite picture(s) of an artist playing a Guild?"
Videos can be posted under a thread in "Music" for instance.
Now trying to find an answer to Dan's question. What I read is (and you know, what's written on the internet is true...only Hans would know the exact model numbers) that Ralph Towner plays mostly two custom-made Guild 12-string guitars. Both have classical-width necks, no pickguard, and no fingerboard ornamentation. The guitar he tours with has a cutaway and is kept at standard pitch.
I read in another blog that Towner had first a F-212. Shortly after followed at least two custom-made Guilds: a Florentine cutaway F-212 (or F-312) and an abalone-less fretboard F-512: the first mahogany bodied and the second in Brazilian Rosewood, both with flat, classical-like 52 mm at nut fretboards as per Ralph's wishes, needing the same room he was used to while playing his classical guitar.
But as can be seen in the 3rd picture he also played "normal" F-512 as it looks.
So I didn't find a 100% correct answer anywhere. Lot's of different and conflicting info on the web as usual.
There was even this:
Ralf
