Victor Tsaran | guitars | music | technology | and more

A couple of days ago my good friend and the maker of wonderfully-sounding pickups, Teddy Randazzo Jr, showed me his copy of the Tacoma Papoose P1 6-string acoustic guitar. For reasons I can't still explain to myself, I just fell in love with this small but sweet-sounding instrument.

I know that at this point a lot of guitar enthusiasts would like me to start talking about the kinds of wood the guitar is made off, the scale length, the tuning etc. However, I will leave these details to the description of the Papoose P1 guitar on Tacoma's web site. They know their stuff best!

I was quickly disappointed to find out that this particular model has been discontinued and, worse yet, there seems to be no really good demos of the guitar online. Digging further into the matter I learned that Papoose was actually the first guitar ever made by Tacoma. You can find more information about this fact and more from this Tacoma Guitars Reference web site.

Personally, I prefer to make my judgments about any instrument by listening to its sound, first and foremost. While searching the Internet for demos and examples of various musicians playing Papoose guitars (which I didn't find too many), I stumbled across an interesting site that showcased audio and video samples of acoustic guitars of at least four sizes–soprano, alto, tenor and baritone.

Sorry, no Papoose this time, but instead enjoy the hago in concert – Audio & Video clips and, when done, have a quick read about the four sizes of the acoustic guitar from the same web site.