Re: sound quality versus aging of acoustic guitars

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: : I KEEP READING IN FORUMS THAT ACOUSTIC GUITARS : : START SOUNDING BETTER AS THEY GET OLDER. IS THIS : : A RESULT OF THE WOOD AGING OR A SIDE EFFECT OF : : BEING PLAYED MORE OFTEN ? IS THE CHANGE GOING TO : : BE SO DRAMATIC THAT IT WONT SOUND ANYWHERES CLOSE : : TO WHAT IT DID WHEN I INITIALLY BOUGHT IT ? HOW : : LONG DOES THIS PROCESS TAKE BEFORE YOU "NOTICE" : : A CHANGE IN ITS CHARACTER ? OR IS IT ALL BUNK ?! : The playing and the aging both does affect the sound. I think the playing affect the Guitar more than the Aging, but aging does affect it. : I had a Gibson Super 300, it's an archtop Acoustic, and after owning it quite a few years it sounded incredible good. I sold the guitar to someone who was not very good at playing, and within 6 months the guitar sounded awful, you could not tell by listening that it was the same guitar. : I think it is like one guitar teacher I had told me. It's the quality of the playing that makes it sound better. He thought the molecules of the wood re-aligned themselves in tune with the music that was played on the guitar. I think he was right for the quality of the playing sure makes a big difference in how they sound. : I hang a guitar on the wall in a room where my music speakers were, from the stereo, some powerful speakers. After about a month the guitar started sounding much better. After a year the sound of the guitar was incredibly good. You could feel the guitar vibrating when the music from the speakers was coming out. : So I tried conscoiusly to change the sound of a new guitar. I put it in the room with the spearkers, played some great sounding guitar music near night and day for a month. The new guitar sounded so much more mellow and the tones so much more pure than when I brought the guitar home. So I thought that proved that the sound vibrations on the guitar make a difference in how it sounds. : Robert Lee Johnson : The Guitar Man : www.mp3.com/theguitarman