For decor, though, you get some added style. There is a very tasteful white and black binding and edging around the edges of the top. And the whole guitar is given a high gloss finish. An age-old combination of woods that produce a great sound. Spruce then for the top wood combined with a mahogany back and sides. They don’t buckle or change shape and are sometimes preferred by the traveling musician. But on the other hand, laminated wood tops are less susceptible to weather conditions. You understandably don’t get the sound quality you will get from a solid piece of wood. However, there are some advantages to a laminated top. A solid piece of spruce can be expensive, and you usually only find them in guitars costing much more than this. This is a cheaper way of using this tonewood for the top. It has a Spruce top that is laminated or, as some describe it, layered. Something one or two others could learn from. They make a budget guitar and do the best job of it that they can. They do not have any inflated claims of excellence like some do and haven’t got any wild pretenses as some have. When you get into the Oscar Schmidt ethos of instrument manufacture, you learn something quite quickly. More on this later.įirst released in 2017, it has gained a reputation of being excellent for beginners and improvers alike. An acoustic-electric 12-string with quite a decent tone. This guitar though is not just an acoustic it has a pickup and preamp. Having a cutaway on this 12-string gives the player more access to the strings. Oscar Schmidt guitars have always been known as a great place to start to learn an instrument. This guitar is a 12-string offering with a classic dreadnought design but with a cutaway. That is something that the two German immigrant brothers would be proud of. The guitars are modestly priced, well-made, and represent great value for money. They are still with us today, but the traveling salesman idea sadly isn’t.
But they almost went bust in the 30s however, they survived until they were bought by Washburn in 1978. They flourished, but then came the Great Depression, and things got very hard. Salesmen kept accurate records of what was sold and what people were suggesting, and the company fulfilled the need. Secondly, because they were quite inexpensive and thirdly because they were actually quite good.
They were popular firstly because they were available. They, therefore, employed teams of traveling salesmen that would carry the instruments to these areas and sell them. But also because there were even less in some of the poorer areas down in the South of the U.S. For a start, there were not that many around. They didn’t sell their instruments through instrument shops. In the US, they had an interesting marketing ploy.
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