Q&A

CALL OF THE WIDE

I’m a longtime subscriber of Guitarist, but a first-time emailer to the magazine. My gigs involve backing traditional Irish music (mostly strumming) and fingerstyle accompaniment of singers, but I’m hitting a crisis point with something. I’m looking for a steel-string acoustic, which needs good bass and midrange for the genre.

I have a Martin D-18, but I really struggle with the size and depth of the body. I’m much more comfortable on my standard nylon-string. What I’m looking for is something that can be of some use acoustically, sounds great plugged in, with a small