Frogman explores the issue far more eloquently than I ever could. And oh yeah... A few years back I happened to score a box of genuine tortoise shell guitar picks that had been sitting around unsold since they were still legal. Yes, I am glad that the tortoise is no longer hunted down for its shell, But the fact remains that not only do they truly make my steel string acoustic guitars sound better than a plastic one ever did, they reshape themselves over time to make themselves ever more comfortable to hold.
Telling musicians to evaluate and choose their instruments in a “scientific” way?
How do you think this would go over?
“This mass produced guitar measures the same as your vintage Martin on my oscilloscope, so any difference you hear is just expectation bias.” “You need to do a double blind test to prove there’s a difference!” “Rosewood is rosewood, there’s no difference between this Brazilian that’s been seasoned for 20 years and that Indonesian that came off the boat a month ago, you’re being taken in!”
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