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    A Battle Of Guitar Tonewoods: Can You Hear The Difference?

    An NPR sound engineer evaluated the difference in sound between Mahogany and Rosewood guitars. See if you can tell the two instruments apart.
    by Kevin Wait Nov 30, 2017 2 minutes
    A lot factors come into play in creating a guitar's sound.There's size and shape of the instrument and its parts. Then, there's the skill and the approach of the musician to consider.

    What do you hear when someone strums a guitar? You might describe the sound as bright, or full, or warm. Maybe it's metallic or trebly, or maybe it's something else.

    All of that is, of course, pretty subjective. In more objective terms, we can talk about

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