Product: EKO Etude 9050
Price Paid: 25 (Pounds Sterling) used
Submitted
03/20/2004
at
03:28pm
by
Alan Hancock
Features
:
6
Not sure of year of make, sometime in the early 70's I guess, maybe late 60's. Italian made solid top parlour size steel strung folk guitar. Metal tailpiece, floating bridge, slotted headstock. Wider than average classical type neck. 12 frets to the body. Arched type back.
Sound
:
6
Bright sounding acoustic with good overall tone. Not that loud but sounds good either strumming or fingerpicking.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
6
Good action, not ultra low but low enough for fingerpicking which is what I mainly do. Seems to stay in tune quite well. Good solid frets with little wear for the age of guitar. One of the machine heads was missing, so I replaced the tuners with nice looking all chrome Dixon '3 on a strip' tuners which I bought on ebay for #5. Put some light Martin bronze strings on to replace the old 'dead' rubbish that had been on previously.
Reliability/Durability
:
7
As its probably 30 years old with little wear It will last the course. It wont be gigged, so no need to pickup it. Certainly can depend on it as a solid second guitar.
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Bought used off Ebay.
Overall Rating
:
7
Been playing for 10+ years, already got two old archtops, one Egmond and one Framus, Ashbury cutaway semi-acoustic and a lovely Ashbury parlour guitar which I bought last year for about #250. The funny thing is that EKO was a tenth of that and its so similar! ok, not as low action, doesnt sound quite as good, certainly not as loud, but a nice little fingerpicking guitar with a wide neck like the ashbury which suits my fingers just right. Really a bargain when you look at the price, #25 from ebay! #5 for a set of strings and #5 for some new tuners. Can't believe that there wasnt more interest on the bidding, especially bearing in mind all the interest in EKO ranger acoustics which are going for silly money, bearing in mind most of them are pretty well knackered!
