User review and recommendation
of the Tacoma DM9
Recommendation:
Tacoma DM9 - Tacoma offers the hottest line of acoustic guitars
in over 25 years. All are made in the U.S.A. and are already the third
largest US acoustic guitar company.
The Tacoma DM9 Guitars "VS" bracing is a radical advance
over traditional acoustic guitar bracing. They haven't "adjusted"
a design from the 1930's, they have applied 60 years of learning. Tacoma
Guitars braces are triangular in shape because they have equal strength
to a rounded brace with less mass.
Their "Tone Shaped" bridge is wide and flat on the bass side,
and narrow and peaked on the treble side. A Luthier's rule of thumb
is that low, wide braces are best for bass frequencies, and tall, thin
braces are best for treble frequencies. They've applied this thinking
to their bridge and it works. The solid Maple bridge plate is asymmetrical,
and placed diagonally to enhance the dispersion patterns of our bridge
design. The matched bridge and bridge plate configuration balances the
bass and treble remarkably, and produces sustain unmatched by any other
system. There are no sharp corners on the front edge of the bridge to
concentrate stress on the top. Less stress = Longer life. The Tacoma
DM9
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