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my shift key isn't working so pardon the lack of capital letters.
my new acoustic is going to be even newer - er, okay, "more new"? - after this weekend, because i'm exchanging it...
i had gotten a yamaha 12-stringer. very nice guitar. big wall-of-sound style. like waves crashing gently on a beach. sweet. even my wife said 'wow.' played nicer than any other 12-string in the price range - i tried dean, alvarez, fender, a few others. i'd highly recommend yamaha to anyone looking.
but after playing it, i realized that 12-string guitars are not much fun if you want to do more than strum open chords. i'm working on a song with some jazzy chords up the neck and they are very difficult to form - the neck is very wide, and the doubling of string tension makes it that much worse. now i did play a takamine that seemed easier to fret, but it was more than twice the price, so...
i'll be exchanging the 12-string for a plain 'ol six. will tell you what i get when i figure it out... leaning toward low-end seagull or breedlove, but who knows.