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When people think of an acoustic guitar, they picture a dreadnought. It’s an iconic image that’s been drilled into us ever since the Great Folk Scare of the 1960s. Back then, almost everyone played a dreadnought – the projection, the booming bass, the percussive chunk… all helped the solo singer/songwriter to connect with the audience in a time when amplifying the acoustic was not nearly as simple as it is today. But smaller instruments could still be found here and there, and the

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