| I think that it's safe to say that out of ALL
of the brands that we carry, Bill Collings makes the most highly
respected mahogany guitars. Even players with a long standing bias
towards rosewood instruments have to grudgingly admit that Bill's mahogany
guitars ... I'm talking Orchestra Models AND dreadnoughts ... are simply
stunning sounding! Certainly the Collings model with the biggest grassroots
"buzz" is the Winfield Mahogany.
A lot of players feel that this builder is at
his best with the combination of tropical mahogany and spruce grown in
the highest elevations of the Adirondack mountains. When Bill Collings
utilizes these two species of tonewoods he somehow gets that quintessential
early American steel string tone ... powerful and raw with a dry woody
midrange and a massive note fundamental. The icing on this tone-cake
is the finesse and high end overtone detail that has been the signature
of this very successful Texas builder for thirty years! |
