Comparing different priced guitars 🎸 (PART I)

Can you hear the difference between a $200, $2,000, $20,000, and $200,000 guitar?

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[anthiondel]

They sound worlds appart in terms of resonance and overtone. Having said that, the 2k one has the best quality-to-price ratio imo

[grantritchey]

Dear Brandon,

I discovered your site less than two weeks ago. I’ve never written to anyone like this before, but I feel compelled to respond to your offering, your content, and what it meant to me.

First of all, you’ve created a warm, lovely, welcoming, informative site for those who wish to learn what you offer. I love it! For me, you have reawakened a life long love of guitar music, ‘ancient’ music, and the classical guitar. For all of that, let me thank you. I have many things to say to you, so at the risk of boring you to death, let me try.

At age 12 I got a ukulele, learned cords, and songs to sing, I loved it ! At 13 I heard Andres Segovia play! My obsession was born! I wanted a guitar? In 1950 there were no guitars to be found in my little town. Through family channels an old guitar came to me. It was an archtop guitar with not a hole, but two ‘f’ slots. It was too big for me, and if I still had it, I would submit it as a guitar to begin your piece on playing increasingly expensive guitars.. It would qualify as the $2 guitar, and that’s accounting for inflation! In retrospect, what I now know to be the action, was at least 5, maybe 6 mm at the 12th fret, metal strings. So, I stayed in the first 3 frets, or risked slicing my fingertips. There were no guitar teachers around, Guitars were not a featured instrument in those days. Folk music was still 2-3 years away. I thought all guitars would be this hard to play

Four years or so later, in high school, I met a guy with a Martin guitar, son off a gun!! It was so easy to play!

Okay, now life gets in the way. I enjoyed some minor notoriety in college, for singing bawdy ballads, and funny naughty lyrics. Playing other people’s guitars. Then came marriage, dental school, kids, practice, life. But my love for the old music, the classical guitar endured.

It’s now 73 years later. I’ve recently lost the love of my life, my wife of 62 years, to Alzheimer’s.
And then, through happenstance, I run across you, literally last week, comparing lutes and guitars! What’s this, I say? Someone like me! And then I hear you play Carillon, by Terzi. One of the most beautiful things I think I’ve ever heard.
You are delightful in your commentary. I’m hooked! And I learned about the Theorbo, for crying out loud! I love your commitment, your dedication, and may I say, your devotion to your art. It comes through in every aspect of your presentation.

Here comes the punchline, the final connection, for me. I listened to you play “Gnossienne #1, by Eric Satie, which also, I had never heard before. The music was haunting, mesmerizing. I couldn’t get it out of my mind. Upon hearing it again, I realized Satie’s eccentric genius, and your beautiful playing had given voice to my pain, anguish, despair and loss. It describes, in the upper registers, my cries in the long lonely nights, pleading against all hope- dissonance. And finally, the lower refrain, or phrases, offers hope, perhaps resolution. Plaintive. Hauntingly, exquisitely, painfully, beautiful. I’d never had a revelation like that before. That piece summons up seven years of grief in an indescribable way. Intensely beautiful. I hear it in my head every day. The miracle of music.

Unbeknownst to you, you have given something beautiful to an old man, still in love with music, and her. BTW she gave me a classical guitar as a wedding gift.

Thank you! My life is richer because of you.

Grant Ritchey

PS Shared a couple of your clips with my adult grandson (26) today. He said, “I could listen to him talk about music all day.” You are doing something right, young man. Keep it up!

[MrAmoLLL]

it depends on how expensive listeners earphones are 😅lol

[slimshadys]

This guy doesn't run into a burning house to save his kids, he runs straight for the guitar.

[craigosborne]

I love the warmth of the tone on the $2, 000 guitar

[kyle_]

I was waiting for the two million dollar one.

[justpassingby]

A cheap guitar often sound ok, but feels like you're struggling against it while playing. Thats a bigger factor for me at least.

[StudiodotCom-Real]

The difference between 200 and 2000 was quite noticeable. After that, we were really limited by your choice of mics used for the recording, but I think the differences were very small.

[TabsReader]

it’s not just sonic qualities… it’s the tactile feel as well as how the instrument makes the player feel which matters even more

[PowMusic]

Through my iPhone without headphones with a noisy AC, from sounded like your fingers and touch would make more of a tonal difference - the resonance and punch was there in all three. The 200 sounded dead

[altravels]

I bought a classical guitar on ebay for $60 with free shipping about 10-12 years ago. I still play it to this day.

[yupp]

I love watching your expressions for playing each. You can see your perception and the experience in your eyes; it’s super fascinating.

[skyw]

Definitely better but nothing beats skill and talent 😍

[danikaiser]

This is the most entertaining short. I watched it like 8 times. It’s quite amazing to hear the tonal differences- especially between the $200 and $2k. I’ve always been impressed with my cheap little La Patrie Godin but that’s probably because I’ve not had much comparison (that’s probably for the better!)

[kirbymarchbarcena]

The only thing I can clealr hear is "KA-CHING" as the price goes up

[tvelasquez]

I never thought the 200k guitar would be that noticeably different however I could hear the minute differences that can explain its value. The rarity and scarcity probably add $150k of the $200k to its price.

[straightXjessedge]

I can hear the differences, but I personally preferred the $2000 over the others.

[nhynek]

The Law of diminshing returns in full effect here

[max_]

I really noticed the overtones on the 20k