General Dreedle
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About to go look at a
Guild D 44m
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geoguy
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Based on my experience playing exactly one (1) example of that model, I would expect it to have a strong & clear voice. It was also warmer sounding than I expected for a maple-bodied guitar.
Guildedagain
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Heavier than the hog back guitars?
wileypickett
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Very strong bass response on mine.
General Dreedle
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These are all good things, warm maple guitar with a bass response? Great
Pretty rare too. I've only seen two for sale online in the past year.
donnylang
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I played a ‘70s D44-M in a shop once, and did not care for it (could have been that particular guitar or era- I think it was mid-‘70s). I preferred the ‘72 G37 I had briefly … the differences on paper would seem to be the ebony fretboard on the D44-M vs. rosewood on G37 (the G37 I had was a mahogany neck), plus of course the arched back of the G37.
The ‘67 D44 (pearwood) I had was better than either of them IMO though. I would go for a pearwood model if I were on the hunt personally. I think these were made from around ‘65-‘73(?).
The ‘67 D44 (pearwood) I had was better than either of them IMO though. I would go for a pearwood model if I were on the hunt personally. I think these were made from around ‘65-‘73(?).
SFIV1967
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From the 1971 catalog:
From the 1976 catalog (no acoustic catalog in between):
Ralf
From the 1976 catalog (no acoustic catalog in between):
Ralf
How was the D44M?
General Dreedle
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I’m in Seattle and just now digging out of the snow and black ice hope to go this afternoon or tomorrow
General Dreedle
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One final question, what does bluegrass jubilee mean for this model?
wileypickett
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Nothing, really. A marketing angle?
GardMan
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In the "early days" of Guild, many models had names in addition to their letter/number designations. Many of the dreads had names invoking bluegrass, for example, the D-25 and 35 were the "Bluegrass" D-25 and 35, the D-40 and D-44 (original pearwood version) were the "Bluegrass Jubilee D-40 and Bluegrass Jubilee D-44," and the D-50 was the "Bluegrass special D-50" (the F-47 was also originally called the "Bluegrass"). At the time, these names had no real meaning re: construction that I know of, and they fell out of use sometime in the 70s.
When Guild moved to Tacoma and later to New Hartford, the "Bluegrass" designation was used on dread models that had Adirondack spruce tops.