Guitars of the past - part 2

After the Fender classical, my next guitar was a Yamaha FG-365SII, a dreadnought-style guitar (though Yamaha, at least at that time, insisted on calling their dreds "jumbos"). This was a big step up in quality - solid spruce top, laminated rosewood back and sides; this was, I believe, second to the top of Yamaha's line of dreadnoughts. I loved its neck profile - easy to play, though I'm not sure it was ever set up as well as it might have been. It served me quite well while I had it, and my motives for getting rid of it were, in retrospect, not well-considered (I thought I needed an acoustic with a built-in pickup), but it was probably a case of making the right move for the wrong reasons, as I traded it in for the McPherson that I still have (almost a quarter-century later).

I do still have the case I got with the Yamaha - a D'Andrea Geib-style case - though I no longer have a guitar that it really fits.

Gig preparations

In preparation for playing at church in late July, my wife and I have spent a little time reviewing some music we'd played in the past at another church (perhaps 15 years ago now), and I think we've settle on three pieces (pending pastoral approval), which together should be more than enough to fill the time required, and have run through them together a couple of times. Nothing too challenging - except for the challenge of trying to practice them with our two daughters running around playing recorders and a variety of percussion instruments at the same time!

Aside from that, though, the flute and guitar combination still sounds great. This will be the first time we've played in public together since I got the Larrivee - I think this guitar's sound goes particularly well with my wife's flute.