Tanglewood Crossroads Acoustic Guitars | PMTVUK
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
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Some of us get stuck at a Crossroads in our life and a guitar can often be used to help solve these basic life issues instead of all those strange new fangled silly inventions.
During the 1930's, a lot of people were struggling at a crossroads in their lives and some of what is now regarded as the finest and most influential music in the world was created, from rhythmic guitar sounds and singing about life's troubles, a sound we now think of as the blues. With a really significant cost to the musician in those days it meant that guitars of this era had to play well and last a long time, often to be passed on through family generations.
To create an instrument that evokes these traditional values, so often overlooked in our modern society, Tanglewood commissioned the services of a very special luthier, none other than Michael Sanden, the man behind Tanglewood Masterdesign. Michael is the creator of the Sanden Guitar company in Sweden, and now the chief design consultant for Tanglewood Guitars.
Michael has that Scandinavian affinity with natural wood. He starts with the tree, selecting timbers that will sound good together, making the soundboards a precise measurement so they will flex and respond to the players attack, and then he braces the instrument with his own patterns to make each instrument have its own personality.
It’s not just the special bracing, or the woods that are selected, or the construction method even. All these are vital components for any guitar… but on Crossroads Michael wanted to create something very very special.
He wanted to make a guitar that could have the sound that any musician, professional or amateur could appreciate and he demanded that the neck profiles and bridge contouring and fret inlaying should be implemented without regard to the price of manufacturing, to proudly reflect the Tanglewood ethos of outstanding value and performance.
When Michael was looking for a colour finish to compliment the earthy, naturally authentic signature of the Crossroads, the vivid autumnal palette of dark brown that was finally decided upon was likened by some of our friends to be inspired by the timber shading that old whiskey barrels of the last century looked like. So for the very first time, an all new Tanglewood colour finish, exclusively for the Crossroads series models and called it…Whiskey Barrel Burst!
When this was done and the first prototypes rolled off the production line, they were so amazed by the achievement that we knew we had to really drive home the message that a lot of thought and a lot of love had gone into the creation of these fabulous guitars.
We at PMT Portsmouth have hand selected the Crossroads instruments and bundled it with a quality hard case package. We feel it offers great traditional looks, modern playability and a quality of tone at a very affordable price ! Highly recommended, well done Tanglewood UK!
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I just ordered this after more than 7 years of this video but still it is one of the best acoustic guitar you can have. Tanglewood ❤
I have the crossroads OE model and I love it!! It sounds brilliant. Plus a smaller neck for a lady with small fingers. To be truthful it is the best guitar I have owned over the years. Others have been more expensive too. I love the tone on it. Such good value!
Just bought one of these but unfortunately have to wait for Christmas, they sound great
In love with this guitar! Love how Steve plays this! wow.
My old guitar is only good for slide now with high action and a stripped truss rod. Bought this as a replacement. It arrives tomorrow.
Sounds amazing. I just got one and man... So well balanced, the lows, the mids and the highs. I would go for the acoustic one, without any eletronic, sound better. I have been playing concert guitars from 5k above and this ones are just amazing!
Bought a tanglewood crossroads for not much money its fantastic
Awesome guitar! Love mine
Tanglewood make great guitars
just got one of these best guitar love the finish on them
Good guitar. Had mine a few months now. The strings that came on it sucked though, buzzed alot. Can hear them on this video.
How did you solve the buzzing problem?
New strings fixed it straight away.
Okey thanks! Im getting sme fretbuzz on the low e string. Do you recommend getting new strings?
yeap and maybe adjusting the truss rod.i paid someone to do that but you can definitely do it yourself
Jordan Cochrane
Adjusted the truss rod and now its working perfectly!!!
Cool 😎 playing
So - dread or orchestra? Do you have a preference?
I was wondering the same thing
that series came Light bronze strings. ...site......but 11 or 12's Light?
i Just bought one... amazing
You can be a tone hound and spend £ thousands. I suspect that you can have the same fun with a fine-looking box of laminate like this.
Thanks for posting this comparison between the body styles. The difference in tone is clear.
I own one perfect for beginners I'm gonna step up to a Tanglewood TW4👍✌
What to make of that?
Do they normally have truss rods?
yes opposite the sound hole
why not tuned in standard guitar tuning?
Pretty much any guitar will sound good when played with some open strings, he used the non-standard tuning so he could use open chord shapes anywhere on the fretboard.
What tuning was used here?
what wood are they made out of
+Cahill1eskra mahagony
hehe love your style....
anyone know the songs he was playing
+Darragh Boyle He played a random chords,just a simple stuff.
If your going to advertise a guitar like this you should at least play some delta blues !
1:52 what? I didn't get a word of that.
"The other nice thing is, these knobs are set-and-forget." It seems you push them in & they stay the way you set them.
solid or laminate guitar?
Laminated
I don't understand, if I buy one if these can I plug it into my amp or is the pickup just for tuning?
It Has the tuner and pickup so yes you can plug and play. Just purchased one Beautiful sound.
i just bought one, good value for money
Enjoy!
Fender cd60 or tanglewood crossroad?
Tanglewood OM
fender acoustics are all horrendous
@@Anarhtica I have the CD 60 and I've been contemplating whether I should replace it with one of these for weeks. This comment lead me to finally deciding to buy the Tanglewood so thanks! haha
hi....strings......0.11 or 0.12?
Price?
Cheap 159€ in Europe.
thats no wesky burst!. thats a burn burst.