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The Mitchell MD100 is a full-sized dreadnought guitar with a spruce top and mahogany back and sides. You can expect the MD100 to give you years of playing pleasure at a very affordable price!
I got my Mitchell MD100 so that I could have an acoustic to take lessons with. The tone is ok, but the action was very high, and Barre Chords were almost impossible to play. I'm now an intermediate level player, and I should have gotten a different acoustic as my starter. I filed the nut slots and shaved the saddle to make it more playable which made it a little better, but now when I pick up higher end guitars at the store to play on it's easy to see why Martins and Taylors are worth more. I suppose it's for the person that doesn't know if they will stick to guitar. It also has a place as a guitar you don't have to worry about when you go camping. Yes acoustics are harder to play than electrics, but this Mitchell is harder to play than most other Acoustics. Buy it only as a beater.
I was in messing around at the local GC for my birthday and they didn't have the Martin I was hoping to test drive for future reference. I played several of the regulars and then I saw a tobacco burst Mitchell that caught my eye. I've heard about these instruments and read several adds for them but had never tried one on for size, so I thought what the hey. OMG!! This instrument was AWSOME! Now I own several Martins, a Taylor and a nice little Alverez and have been through a ton of guitars over the last 40+ years of picking. One of the best guitars I'd ever owned was a Lotus which was a Chinese knock off of the Gibson Hummingbird in the mid 70's(Thats a whole different story). This Mitchell blew me away as it fell right into that category. Beautiful fit and finish. From what I can see, good solid construction and good bracing. Frets are a little thicker than I like but not unbearable. She frets very well and the neck is actually rather fast. It is comfortable to fret up and down and with proper strings on it and a small investment for a proper set up that even the big name axes often need when new this beast is just unbelievable. It is a full size dreadnaught and isn't a small guitar at all, so if you're looking for a ooo sized or parlor guitar this is not it. The sound is in a word, Beautiful. Nice bass and bottom end that has plenty of boom and sustain as a dreadnaught is expected to have. Mid Range and Treble are sweet and full with a lot of well balanced sustain that you can fully feel expressing itself through the back and belly of this nice axe. It adapts very well to finger picking and if you want to use a pick and drive this guitar hard it seems to eat it up with gusto. A mean machine for blue grass pickers for sure. I agree with a previous reviewer, this is not a Martin or a Taylor and it isn't trying to be and it isn't supposed to be. It is a Mitchell and a well recieved instrument from what I can tell from the short time I've now owned one and been banging it nearly every day along with my ooo Martin. Lifetime warranty to the original owner, quality looks, construction and design. Very playable, awsome sound, projection and sustain. Well under $500... what the devil isn't to like? Why does an instrument need to have Gibson, Martin, Taylor, etc stamped on it and cost more than most of us make in a month in order to be judged as good or worthy of owning one? Sorry folks, life is just too short. I'm no guitar snob. If it's good then that's that and these Mitchells are good little guitars. Would I play one on the road or the stage? You bet. Try one out yourself and make up your own mind, but I'm betting that when you do you will be as amazed as I was. These seem to be strung with mediums so they will be stiff for most folks at first. I'll stick to my lights thank you. Just try one and enjoy it. For the price you will be awed if you're a begining player or an old hand.
This was my first acoustic guitar, and it's decent. :) And not bad quality at all, and I was definitely satisfied with it. :) The one I got didn't have any unwanted twang or anything and it was worth for what I bought it for :). I would have rated it 5 stars for a starter but...I recommended this guitar to a friend, and she went out, bought it, and then came back and the quality was awful....she returned it and I told her to tell the guy to tune it for her, and came back with another one that was just as bad...I thought that once he'd hear what it sounded like he'd suggest to give her a different one, but I was wrong :/. I went with her the next time to buy a different model, and she just spent a little more cash to buy one that sounded much better. If you're going to try to buy this, bring someone with you that knows what a good acoustic should sound like, NOT THE GUITAR CENTER EMPLOYERS :(. As for quality of mine, it's reliable :), I've hit it a few times by accident and it's fine. The tuners worked great when I first bought the guitar, as long as I played it daily it stayed in tune, but now I have to tune it a lot more often (6 months in to playing it). It's light and it's great for playing almost any genre...not really rock...get an electric for that ;). It still looks almost like new besides the pick guard. :) The one have definitely met my expectations :)
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