A Rosewood Topped Acoustic Guitar?! Can Furch Make it Work? Furch Yellow Dark Series
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- čas přidán 1. 06. 2024
- At the 2024 NAMM Show Furch Guitars unveiled a curious series of guitars with East Indian Rosewood tops. The Yellow Dark series take the popular Yellow Series and adds the curious feature of a rosewood top. Now, we have often wondered about this approach and have heard form some builders that it isn't possible to do because of the density of rosewood. Can Furch pull it off? Cooper and Chris find out.
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0:00 Intro
0:37 Rosewood Tops?!
3:20 Specs
5:49 GC-RR Demo
7:19 DC-RR Demo
8:50 Final Thoughts
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5:05 I'm the owner of the rosewood OM from Alamo. It was such a standout that we took it home. The dreadnought is spectacular in person! When Cooper said everyone liked it, it's true. The low end is rich and dark in the best way. I play fingerstyle and some strumming and the OM had crisp note definition in the treble with that beautiful low end darkness. We have spruce mahogany and spruce rosewood guitars so this is something sonically different. The neck finish is perfect. No drag when playing. Overall construction is excellent. I'd argue better than a standard series Martin which is a similar price. Love it. It found the right home. ❤ Thanks David for showing it to us. Sorry, not sorry, we got it before Chris and Cooper could record the video.
At the beginning, I thought the notes were compressed even more than with mahogany. But the strumming really brought the overtones and harmonics together. Great sustain and balance. Beautiful guitar, both aesthetically and sonically. Another perfect showcase, Cooper. How well you two pick these out at NAMM amazes me in all the “sax and drums.”
Is it just me or do the sound superb with the blooming single notes and swelling harmonics? Like wow
Beautiful. I am a fingerstylist who plays simple and single notes.. and wow, I loved how the GC sounded. I also love how they are NOT BLINGY. So many high end guitars just put too much "stuff' and bling on them for my taste. The dark is awesome.
Rosewood tops!!! Holey smoley. Good for Furch!! Thanks Gents for bringing forward such neighboring sizes with such dramatically different sounds. Wow.
Nice Guitars. Glad to see you guys survived the storms.
Would be useful to hear A/B with the spruce Yellow series too...
Sounds good but I second the motion for a comparison between these and their cedar topped counterparts.
I love the 👓, 🤓😎.
No pun intended.
Greetings from the sunny climes of Basle, Switzerland
The dreadnaught sounds phenomenal
We were in the San Antonio area due to the eclipse and made a 'pilgrimage' to one of your stores. I played one of the rosewood tops that were pointed out to me and it was interesting. I only used my fingers, no pick, but the sound was really interesting. There were plenty of overtones which didn't surprise me. I think I like it more with a pick now that I heard the demo.
I’m a Furch Yellow Master’s Choice Gc-CR owner and as big a Furch fan as possible!
I really was skeptical with an all Rosewood guitar even from Furch!
Wow, they knocked it out of the park!! I think they’ve got some serious Hogwarts magic going on there!!
Great presentation as well from you guys!!
Glad to see this happening!
Pretty guitars and new music. Now that’s a good Saturday 🎸
For me it was love at first strum!
Good afternoon Chris and Cooper-
I'm glad I watched this video. Furch definitely made a bold move and it appears to have come to fruition nicely.
I'm coming into my 27th year as a player and I often use DADGAD as one of my go-to tunings.
I think these guitars would shine in such a tuning, or in DGDGBbD.
Sounds exactly how I had imagined.
I’ll take them!
"Can Furch make it work?" Great internal rhyme.
What kind of sound profile would you get from a red cedar top with rosewood back sides and vice versa?
Let's hear them against their more traditional siblings please. I thought they sounded "mellow". I'm not a fan of one-wood guitars, because I think it's better to pair a softwood top with hardwood back & sides, to cover more tonal palette, but these rosewood guitars not only sound good, they also look superb.
Where did the OM fit in sound?
Are the tops made out of one piece?
💙👍💯...I REALLY like the sound produced by this guitar....to my ear, it's what the love child of a Yamaha FG9 and a Boucher SG 161 would come out sounding like.
Before watching this video, I'm gonna go ahead and predict that this'll sound like a mahogany guitar but warmer and more woodsy sounding
Edit: I imagine a denser top would allow for a lighter and more scalloped bracing
Edit edit: i didn't expect it to be so chimey 👀
"Outline dots" inlays- do you mean circles? lol
Any 12 strings in these models
Thick and compressed is about right. I had a chance to play most of their guitars a Huml music in the Czech Republic when it was their classic and modern lines, including an all rosewood model. Did not like it. Took home the equivalent of a 00 with cedar/rosewood which I love to this day.
Hi all. Crashing the Furch talk with a Yamaha question. Any thoughts on an FS3 or 5 vs an LS16?
I think this would be exceptional in an 8 or 9 string dread option
Bland, The Guitar has lost the top and bottom.
Furch .. just imagine they would write it foorch, okay? Like tool, fool, etc...
Are these cheap?
Once the technical argument is won, price is secondary. These guitars will undoubtedly have their supporters, for whom the price is right.
@1man1guitarletsgo
A politician's answer. The question was are they cheap. The answer is no.
@@pepmasters-999 Thank you. A _salesman's_ argument, actually. To some people these guitars will seem cheap, because they offer something that others don't. Now, if I spent a lot of money buying this guitar and was so satisfied that I never felt the need to buy another, I might end up spending less than someone who kept buying guitars in their search for the perfect instrument. So, while I agree, they're not cheap, purchase price isn't the whole story.
These rosewood guitars don't have much midrange. Sounds like it would be good for Celtic music but not much else.
very expensive guitars with all solid rosewood but not really perfect stone