Goodall Traditional Rosewood Dreadnought Guitar Demo @ House of Musical Traditions

House of Musical Traditions in Takoma Park, MD (just outside of Washington DC) is a dealer for James Goodall acoustic guitars. Here we have Mark Sylvester, one of our guitar teachers, demonstrating the Traditional Rosewood Dreadnought model. Goodall's Traditional Series instruments include partially scalloped braces and a chevron marquetry backstrip, and are designed for the flatpicker or bluegrass style player. This model features an Adirondack Spruce top, Indian Rosewood back & sides, Ebony fingerboard & bridge, Maple herringbone binding & rosette and Waverly tuners.

This guitar is not currently in stock, but can be ordered. List Price on this model is $6,000. For availability and price, please contact HMT directly at hmtmail@hmtrad.com or 301-270-9090, or visit our website at www.hmtrad.com.

Goodall Guitars are handmade by James Goodall and his small staff of craftspeople in Fort Bragg, CA. Every Goodall guitar features superb craftsmanship, an exacting finesse for detail and wood choice, and robust, three dimensional sound character.

To find out more about Mark Sylvester, visit www.marksylvester.net. Inquiries on lessons with Mark (he teaches guitar, banjo, mandolin and bass) can be made to House of Musical Traditions. In this video, Mark plays two original compositions from his CD "American Gypsy." The first is "American Gypsy Pt 2," the second is "I'll Not Be Weary." Tab for these songs is available on Mark's website.

Video produced by Glenn Tucker with audio engineered by HMT's in-house engineer and pro audio repairman Trevor Higgins.

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[whipy]

Can you please tell me what your microphone setup is? Makes that Goodall sound like a cathedral... Would you say it is an honest depiction of its unamplified sound?

[musicaltraditions]

@whipy We used a stereo pair of Neuman TLM103s through a tube preamp and with a DBX compressor set in stereo. The only change to the audio, in post, was the lossy compression that comes with video. Our aim was to be as realistic as possible with the sound, as these videos are meant to allow potential buyers to hear the guitar who can't come to our store in person. The guitar does sound like a cathedral; Goodalls are incredible! :-)

[SanjaTheMaster]

Hey nice guitar man. What is the fisrt song called, and do you possibly have the tabs for it? It would help alot, thanx :))

[musicaltraditions]

@SanjaTheMaster Information is at the bottom of the video description. Mark has tabs for these songs available through his website, marksylvester [dot] net. Thanks for your interest.

[rickinbutler]

Fabulous guitar! Can anyone lend me $5,299?

[lovemyguitarlomo]

Better than Gibson!!!

[crunkykong]

Still can't get over how great this thing sounds. Wonder who the owner is..

[Hrytka]

Beautiful!

[GameLevelEditor]

Goodall or Bourgeois Traditional Dreadnoughts are fabulous sounding instruments! I like something from both but both project well.

The Goodall seems to have a more controlled clearer sound where the Bourgeois has a lot of harmonic overtones which depends on what ya prefer. If one day I ever build an acoustic instrument I'd "try" to use some these guitars as standard of excellence in tone to achieve.

[GameLevelEditor]

That is one of the best sounding acoustic guitars I've ever heard. Just with that straight strumming demonstration you can hear a lot going on!

[musicaltraditions]

@attybong Please contact us directly at hmtmail@hmtrad.com or 301-270-9090 for specific pricing information. The list price is $5,700. We do discount but per agreement with Goodall, we don't advertise our discounted price. This guitar is not currently in stock. We have one order slot open for December 2010 delivery - after that it would be at least 6 months wait time.