User:Thomas Österheld/Takamine

The story of the Takamine EN-35-C (1987) steel string is really "interesting" and I hope that some friends from AFS JPN can help me with that special historical research project.

In 1986 and 1987 I tried to find a good steel string with cutaway and classic-guitar neck. Takamine obviously offered still "reasonable" guitars but the quality of the single instruments varied in very big range. Among ten instruments with mediocre sound there was one instrument that really was "the thing". Comparing the instruments in different stores was a lengthy job. And you maybe recall that at these days strings often lost there shape so fast that even good instruments in the shops make a bad impression. Even worse, to attract the average player guitars are equipped with thin strings and come with a low action. "Easy to play" but very difficult to judge.

Finally in 2018 the worn down instrument was carefully overhauled by Nick Baginsky and plays and feels and plays now (with .013 Elixier Nano Web Bronze strings...) better than ever.