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What type of guitar is Amy playing in this photo?

It kinda looks like a Taylor, although my eyes can't make out the headstock. This IS Amy Grant, right? Married to Vince Gill. Here's a yahoo'd quote from Vince, on Amy and a Taylor:"Gill is also especially enamored of a small-body cutaway custom Taylor "with a little tiny neck that plays great" given to him by Amy Grant."
http://www.acousticguitar.com/issues/ag50/gear50.html
I didn't know Taylor made an acoustic without a soundhole though(unless her hand is covering a small one), but........long story short, my guess is Taylor.
Your mileage may vary.

Yes that is Amy Grant and I don't think there is a soundhole...here is another pic with her hand in a slightly different place...

Hmm...hard to say. It looks like a couple different models. For a second I thought it was the Chet Atkins acoustic by Gibson, but the body looks way too large to be that. The headstock does look like a Taylor. The top looks slightly quilted, so, it may be a custom made instrument.

In that first photo, it looks like there's a sound hole just above her right hand. In that case, it could be a Tacoma (don't know the model though)...since Tacoma makes their guitars with the sound hole off center like that...but, then upon further review, that might just be her sleeve or a shadow of her wrist and not a soundhole at all. I tried blowing up the photo to read the headstock, but it just becomes too blurry & unreadable.

So...after all that... :shrug:...Beats me.


One thing I DO know...it's NOT a Turner. :nod: :lol:

Okay, nobody(me) calls me anal retentive, and doesn't get away with it! :rolleyes:
I just got off the phone with Taylor, and they (although they didn't see the pic), say it's NOT a Taylor. The only non soundhole guitar(a T-5) they make still has F holes, and they really don't make any "one-off" artist guitars. So, it's not a Taylor, according to Taylor. Although she is listed on their artist's list of players. :confused:
Anally retentively yours(boy, that sounds bad),
Homie

Hmmm...she played it during the first and second episode of the new show "Three Wishes"...when it comes on next Friday...I will to see (if they give another outdoor concert)...this is killing me now... :nod: :laugh:

Since we're on the topic of guitar's, this might sound like a stupid question but it has always bothered me, is it just me or does Sheryl Crow's guitar(s) look big on her because she's so skinny or does she play big guitar's?

Both. She's skinny AND plays big guitars. :thumbsup:

:laugh: No really, I know nothing about guitars, are there really bigger ones and why? and why have I only noticed this on her? Come to think of it though, Natalie Maines from the Dixie Chicks, her guitar looks big, is it the same type?

What does it do to the sound of a guitar if there is no soundhole, like the one Amy is playing?

Volume resonates from the soundhole. But, with today's "stage" acoustic guitars, where a pickup is installed for the PA system, you would only notice her guitar was pretty darned quiet, if she was playing it unplugged, say, in your living room.
Actually, with alot of acoustics/electric(plug-in acoustic guitars), bass feedback is a problem, so they make rubber stoppers for the soundhole, which lessens feedback. So, you'd really only need the soundhole if you DID want to play it in an acoustic setting.
I have two Takemine acoustic/electric guitars, and don't need the rubber stopper for feedback control.

It's similar to the way Lindsey plays his Chet Atkins on "Big Love"...without the amplification you probably wouldnt hear that guitar except in a small room. Those Chet Atkins guitars are very slim and meant to be run thru a board.

You're 100% positive that there's no soundhole? That first photo looks like there's one under her forearm. (as illogical of a design as that seems)


...or amplifier (a Fender Acousti-sonic SFX works wonders! :thumbsup: )

Maybe that's where she got drunk, and smashed an empty fifth of Jack into it. :p