Alvarez, Michael Kelly, and Ibanez all have exotic wood product lines. I would recommend any of them any day, and they're a good deal cheaper than Taylor or Martin. Granted, if you've got the bread to snag yourself either of those two, and that's what you like, I'm not going to make any effort to stop you. Still, you'd be doing yourself a disservice not to check those brands out as well.
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I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing it means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it. -R. Sapolsky
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