Product: Tama TC 10
Price Paid: UNKNOWN
Submitted
06/30/2007
at
08:51pm
by
lee
Email: kinobev<at>gmail dot com
Features
:
8
I have a TAMA TC 15 classical solid Jacaranda rosewood back and sides, solid cedar top. gloss finish all over. finish in 7.5 on top 8 on sides and back. beautiful color and figuring on the back. ebony fretboard.
Bought it from 12th fret in Toronto they gave me an appraisal for insurance of $6750.00 CND.
Sound
:
8
beautiful sound..bell like trebles, very loud. good sustain.
very easy to play. have had it about 4 years. was built in the late '70's
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
7
wear on the top and a mark on the back.
Reliability/Durability
:
10
good tuners, smooth action. very reliable guitar
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
12th fret in toronto told me that tama wanted to get into the concert guitar market and went to Sakurai and got some of their luthiers to build the guitars. mine looks remarkably like a Sakurai.
I contacted Sakurai to do some repairs and they told me that they wouldn't do them
Overall Rating
:
10
I have recently bought a Jim Redgate guitar out of Australia. the TAMA sounds pretty good against it. the redgate has much wider dynamic range, and is even louder than the tama. the redgate has better sustain and a wonderful clarity and note separation. but the Tama sounds good. I am very happy to play it and still think it's a great guitar.
Product: Tama TC 10
Price Paid: 1000 (aust $)
Submitted
04/22/2004
at
08:41am
by
alain valodze
Email: al_valodze at hotmail<dot>com
Features
:
8
Bought this guitar in adelaide [aust]2001. immediatley stunned by it's volume and rich/diversity of tone. Had been tyrying out lots of Spanish made guitars...this one really sang. Looked like the prevoius owner took great care of it. being into brazilian music i noticed that oscar castro neves used a tama guitar...other than that i knew and still know little about them. ive fitted the guitar with a b band and use aer amplification to project in larger ensembles...but it fills a room by itself. this is the only guitar i consistently use. sounds great recorded with nueman mics.
Sound
:
10
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
9
great intonation, comfortable action. looks good...great rosette. tuners replaced with gotoh...never saw the orginals.
Reliability/Durability
:
10
seems durable...solid. survived thirty years or so. a few nail markings on the top. feel this guitar will outlive me.
Customer Support
:
1
who made these guitars anyway?
Overall Rating
:
10
stiill keep playing other guitars....nothing has grabbed me yet.
Product: Tama TC 10
Price Paid: $700 (Australian )
Submitted
10/09/2002
at
01:49pm
by
Valentine
Email: venimore at xtra<dot>co<dot>nz
Features
:
8
This Tama classical was purchased in Canberra, Australia, in 1977.
(About $700 at the time from memory)
It has an embony fingerboard and a solid spruce top. The book ended top is some 7mm thick. The back and sides are all rosewood.
Ivory nut and bridge, and very good quality gold plated machine heads.
It came in a plush lined fitted case, with a little book "looking after your Tama"
Sound
:
10
I played this guitar (professionally) five to six nights a week for 3-4 hours per night, for 8 years. I love the sound of this instrument. It is huge, full, robust, mellow and can fill a concert hall. I use nylon wound on nylon for the G, B, and high E strings. The additional brilliance of these strings balances the gutsy lower tones.
By plucking the strings closer to the bridge as opposed to over the sound hole gives a very definite tonal change. I use to this with great effect by playing a solo version of duelling banjoes, with my right hand nearly resting on the bridge and picking a couple of cm from the ivory to get the banjo sound. (This piece is a show stopper!!)
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
9
The overall construction is superb. The action rather higher than some people like, but I'm used to it and it causes no problem.
The instrument is 25 years old now. This summer I was at lunchtimes playing in an outdoor cafe in a winery. It got a bit too much sun and some bracing came unglued. I have had this repaired and it now sounds as good as new. (No !! Better than new because the sound has improved so much over the decades as rthe wood has matured.)
Reliability/Durability
:
9
Very reliable. Probably more reliable than my wife or my brothers.
(Certainly less argumentative!)
I have met one or two others with Tama guitars who also want to buried with them !
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Pity that the brand-name has disappeared into the valley of percussion. I have no need to come back to the company for support.
Overall Rating
:
10
I have 12 guitars, including Ovation, Fender(s), La Patri, Yamaha, Guild, an old German guitar-lute, and a 1911 Hilo hollow neck Hawaiian. For raw unamplified playing the Tama is my choice. Plugged in the Ovation is great.
