{"id":1333,"date":"2009-02-02T17:28:02","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T16:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/?p=1333"},"modified":"2009-02-03T01:05:30","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T00:05:30","slug":"ask-the-expert-would-you-recommend-a-mcpherson-guitar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/ask-the-expert-would-you-recommend-a-mcpherson-guitar\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask the Expert &#8211; Would you recommend a McPherson guitar?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paula Gano asked Andy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I saw that you play\u00a0McPherson Acoustic guitar.\u00a0 I was thinking of getting one.\u00a0 They are quite expensive.. and was wondering what you think of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"mcpherson-guitars\" href=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/mcpherson-guitars.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-1334 centered\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/mcpherson-guitars.jpg\" alt=\"mcpherson-guitars\" width=\"520\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Andy replies: Yeah I really like it, mainly because it sounds very consistent with a capo all the way up the neck and never even slightly pulls sharp. So basically it sounds so much more \u2018in tune\u2019 than many other instruments I\u2019ve played.<\/p>\n<p>The guys at the Mcpherson work really hard with you to find the correct combinations of woods to get the sound you like, and it\u2019s worth spending the time to work it out because the different combinations sound WAY different from each other.<\/p>\n<p>I chose redwood for the top and rosewood for the back and sides as I want quite a deep sound with plenty of balance between strumming and finger style. If I was predominantly doing one or the other I\u2019d probably choose differently but again the guys their can advise you.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re not familiar with the general sounds of the classic combinations of woods used on guitars, do spend quite a while in a decent guitar shop and compare choices before you splash out on any bespoke model, but once you know what you want ordering a custom shop guitar like this can be like the difference between a tailor-made suit and an off the peg alternative.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve written a few posts on this before. Checkout the buyers guide on a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/buyers-guide-good-quality-acoustic-guitars\/\">good quality acoustic guitar<\/a>, and I also covered it in a newsletter article in 2007. I&#8217;ll dig that out and post it as a new post for you.<\/p>\n<p>The McPherson staff are really helpful and are all Christians there so understand the worship thing well. I hope you find exactly what you are looking for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paula Gano asked Andy: &#8220;I saw that you play\u00a0McPherson Acoustic guitar.\u00a0 I was thinking of getting one.\u00a0 They are quite expensive.. and was wondering what you think of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,7],"tags":[109,353,354,352,351],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ask the Expert - Would you recommend a McPherson guitar? | Musicademy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/ask-the-expert-would-you-recommend-a-mcpherson-guitar\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ask the Expert - Would you recommend a McPherson guitar? 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