Tacoma Guitars

I use this guitar for finger picking as well as strumming. The workmanship on this guitar is excellent. It is a no-frills model. Just a wonderful guitar. The guitar is feather-light. It feels great in the hands. It is SO easy to play. It is certainly loud enough even for finger picking. The intonation is very good. It seems that it has a moderate and mellow tone. It looks amazing - having that paisley off-center sound hole! The pre-amp is fine - no complaints. It has a one and three quarters inch nut width. I absolutely love this guitar. I'd never give this thing up. I prefer it to my Gibson ES-335. This is the official description: "Tacoma Roadking $929 with hardshell case. Limited transferable lifetime warranty . Solid spruce top, solid mahogany back and sides, rosewood fingerboard and bridge, tapered braces, bolt-on neck, satin finish, Gotoh tuners . 25.5-inch scale. Nut width: 1 3/4 inches. String spacing at the bridge: 2 5/32 inches. Made in USA."

I purchased the Tacoma a few years ago because it was a very good deal for an all solid wood American made instruments. I paid $150.00. My first impression was that it was not a strumming instrument. But... I find this to hold true for the dreadnought body style in general. I do not understand why people strum large bodied guitars, their large cavity will not let go of resonances with the speed of smaller OM or 00 guitars. On the other hand, this dreadnought is very well designed for bluegrass Crosspicking, sweep picking, Django jazz, and chord melody arrangements. It excels at adding deep resonance to slow moving broken chord arrangements using the above mentioned techniques. This guitar wants you to hold on to notes in arpeggios and nuance those strings during the decays with a little flexion. It will sound hauntingly beautiful played this way or like a harp or African kora. This is a guitar that wants you to use a Dunlop 2.5 mm pick, not a flimsy piece of latex. One person mentioned a bright tone, I would say this would be string gauge dependent. I’m using medium/heavy gauge copper/bronze and it’s very much a dense mid and bass heavy tone. This guitar loves drop d tuning. Just a simple low e dropped to add a huge drone note to play over during broken chord and arpeggiated passages can sound fantastic. All in all this instrument changed the way I approach the guitar. It forced me to learn it’s strengths and weaknesses and therefor it taught me to crosspick and seek out chord melody style arrangements. The Tacoma dm10 is a guitar that guides you into a playing style that fits its tonal palate and with that came many lessons on styles of playing I had previously not approached. Love when that happens. Tacoma DM10: Bad For: beginners, strummers, finger styles, small weak hands. Good for: bluegrass, crosspicking, chord melody, harp style, slow pieces, slow decays, Dunlop 2.5 mm pick.

I've been playing Bluegrass and Southern style Gospel music for over 30 years. I play Martin, Yamaha, Estaban and Tacoma guitars. I was at a music show one day and hear a group come on and the bass was very clear. I looked up to see what up-right was being played, and to my surprise it was a Tacoma CB10 Thunderchief acoustic bass; not an up-right at all. Very soon after, I purchased one for myself. Clear, pure, phat bass sound but enough high frequency response on the pickup to get some fret sounds. Sounds like an Up-right bass. Excellent construction quality. This bass is great! It truly sounds like an up-right when plugged in. I will never trade this instrument. This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com

Traded a Martin 000-15 for it I figure I had $700 in the Martin. Its sounds like no other, Great maodern tone, bright, balanced and unique. Cuts through all other guitars. Project very well. Volume is amazing for a guitar of this size! Tone and simple elegant look. Stands out in tone and looks. Well built and Very balanced. Has a electric feeling neck Wide and flat! Plays like butter. TOP NOTCH!!!! Not a single flaw anywhere! I'm amazed at the wood selection for the price. Nice work through and though! This is a very great guitar. It will not let you put it down. Not a clone guitar...It has an inspiring feel and sound. A joy to sling over you neck. Very light. Fast action Big loud sound in a small package. This guitar will simply walk on the big axes. Plug it in an hold on! This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com

guitar center st louis $660 looked for months for a good sounding 6 string,had a Martin DM paid for until this one showed up in the show room that very day put everything on hold after I played the tacoma DM9 went home looked it up on the net went back the next day took it home. very simple and light wieght, sounds perfect. nothing comes to mind DM9 solid sitka spurce top SOLID mahogany back and sides and some good strings D'Addario even comes with a hard case . you can look forever and never find a guitar that sounds better for under $2000 yes I said $2000 because I tried them all Martin D-28 and even TAYLOR nether played better. best $660 I ve ever spent . This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com