Chords for Collings Waterloo WL-14 X acoustic guitar review demo

_ _ _ _ _ _ [N] Hey I'm Jamie from Guitarist Magazine and today we're going to take a look at a very
interesting acoustic. _
You've probably heard of the maker Collings who makes high-end acoustics
in Texas and they've come up with a very original concept in this Waterloo WL-14X guitar.
As
you'll notice it doesn't say Collings on the headstock, it says Waterloo and the reason
for that we'll have to explain by doing a bit of history.
Back in the 1930s there was
a world global economic downturn called the Great Depression and Gibson was having trouble
seeing some of its higher end acoustics.
So they brought out a cheaper brand called Kalamazoo
which is where they were based and these guitars whilst they were made a little bit more on
a sort of budget basis had a kind of charm and a tone of their own.
And Collings has
decided to replicate those Kalamazoo guitars or at least evoke the spirit of them in some
new built guitars which are very vintage looking, they have authentic vintage tonal features
_ and they've even gone so far to replicate those Kalamazoo guitars as to leave little
glue globs on the lining and things like that which is something that never ever happens
on real sort of core line Collings guitars because they're far too good at making instruments.
So this is something which is a guitar that's been made beautifully but with deliberate
little cosmetic _ hints at the vibe of these Depression era instruments made by Gibson
as Kalamazoo.
So if you've got that let's talk about some of the other features of this
guitar.
So what makes it a vintage style instrument?
So it's 14 frets to the body, mahogany back
and sides and a spruce top.
You can get this in either an X-braced top or a ladder braced
top which is kind of a little bit more _ assertive tone, slightly more forceful sound and perhaps
a bit more vintage correct if you like.
It's got a period correct ebony nut here as you
can see and all of the hardware has been kind of subtly aged and is in keeping with those
Kalamazoo instruments of the 30s.
So let's have a little listen to it and see how this
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