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Gary, the link is to the pic, not the review.
What else do you need?
I have a sound post/block on my X-500. So, not unique.Gary, appreciated your review. Got a question. Do you think that you like the X-175 guitar better than some of the X500s you've had because of the sound block or in spite of the sound block?
Thanks, Harry H
My first Taj Mahal:Just to note: Taj Mahal is primarily a blues player but with world music influences. Imagine an American version of Ali Farka Touré…or a more eclectic version of Ry Cooder if you're not familiar with Touré.
-Dave-
My first Taj Mahal:
Was on the local underground FM station a short time, I must-a been a high school freshman.
Funny how important 1st impressions are because ever since then I have a hard time thinking of him as an electric player!
I could see that in '69 that style and even the album title Giant Step/De Ole Folks at Home might have been controversial on both sides of the color barrier, might have held back airplay in a lot of markets..
And I could swear I've seen a pic of him with his X-175 in Guild lit, a sunburst; it "stuck" because of that same issue that I always think of him as an electric player, but I can't find it now either.
Could have sworn it was a Guild Gallery, even that same one that has a pic of him with his Catalina blue F30.
It might be the 2001 "Fender Frontline" which GAD doesn't have.
Otherwise I'll have to chalk it up to ongoing memory modification.... <end of veer>
Maple neck on this era X175 - I don't know when those came in, but the original spec (that Guild went back to when they started calling these X150D's) is three piece mahogany/maple/mahogany with a rosewood board.