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ChickenboneJohn March 23, 2017 at 12:06pm

I took a look at the Martin website...interestingly they are starting with relic or "aged" acoustics now. I suppose it had to happen.

Cause the Blue rat March 23, 2017 at 7:01am

I watched an experiment on the effect or worth. They had set up a tasting table. Two exact same cakes. Same frosting. One was marked at what you would expect to pay at an in store baker shop. The other a specialty bakery. Everyone who took part in this experiment liked the more expensive cake. It had "better flavor", "moisture","frosting was better" and so on. People like to think you get more if you pay more. Price = pleasure.

Imagine the disappointment. Your sitting in a very dark room with all your guitars. You pick up one from the place you always put your special 'one'. Sit back and enjoy the sound and feel of it. Just to turn the light on and find that $300 Yamaha is resting in your lap. That $300.000 thing is still sitting in it's spot. Perception is everything.

Remember that video of someone accidentally smashing a very old Martin? Someone needs to remake that video..... : )

JL > Cause the Blue rat March 23, 2017 at 10:39am

the show "Penn & Teller's Bullshit" did the same experiment with organic fruit.

They cut up one piece of fruit, put some of the slices on a plate named 'normal' and some on a second plate labeled 'organic' and folks raved about how much better the organic one was.

same with bottled water, it all came from the garden hose out back, but the label and price on the bottles they filled were different and folks swore they could taste the difference between the expensive water and the affordable water (same garden hose filled both)