Re: Samick acoustic guitar
My first mandolin was a Samick laminate oval A. It sounded and played "good enough."
Many years ago I sat next to the President of Samick on a flight from Seoul to Narita. (I'd been upgraded to first class...) He was on his way to buy Alaskan Sitka Spruce in the U.S. The wood was for piano sound boards.
A few years after that, but still quite a while back, I saw a mandolin with the name SAMICK on the headstock and remembered the flight sitting next to Mr. Lee. I thought about what a nice instrument the mandolin must be: so compact, tuned to 5ths like a violin, and probably not that hard to play. (Well, I got two out of three right...) So I bought the mandolin and there you have it.
Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is,
When time is broke and no proportion kept!
--William Shakespeare
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