When buying a guitar, should you choose a cutaway guitar ?

                             When buying a guitar, should you choose a cutaway?

【Full shape  Guitar】

Appearance: The full shape guitar is a style inherited from the design of classical guitars. The overall curve is complete and has a classical beauty.
Its disadvantage is that after the 14th fret, it is more difficult to play with your fingers. (But generally beginners or people who want to play and sing by themselves will not encounter the situation of playing high positions)

Tone: rounder and fuller, mainly due to structure. The box of the rounded acoustic guitar is larger, which is easier to produce good sound quality, and the loudness of the sound will be correspondingly louder.
Process: Rounded corners are relatively easy to produce because there is no need to heat and bend the cabinet panel, so it is less likely to deform.

【 Cutaway  Guitar】

Appearance: The cutaway guitar has an extra curved and missing part on the cabinet, giving it a more modern appearance.
Tone: Cutaway guitars are designed to have a wider sound range and are suitable for playing at high positions; the tone is inferior to rounded guitars.
Process: There are more chipped corners than rounded corners. The heating and bending of the cabinet panel requires more manpower and material resources during the processing. Therefore, in some brands of guitars with the same configuration, the chipped corners will be larger than the rounded corners. Rounded corners are slightly more expensive.

Q: When buying a guitar, should I choose one with rounded corners or cutaway corners?

(1) Aesthetic orientation:

Choose according to personal preference and aesthetic orientation, but some aesthetic things should also be considered whether they should give way to sound quality.
For example, a piano only has rounded corners or notched corners. You like the sound very much, but you don't like the rounded corners or the notched corners.

But another piano that is not so good just has chipped or rounded corners. Is it worth giving up a better sound for this little difference?

(2) Playing requirements:

1. Play and sing

Let’s first talk about playing. If you mainly play and sing, just choose rounded corners.

Because there are very few high positions for playing and singing, the rounded corners are completely sufficient to meet your needs.
Playing and singing require the piano to have good resonance and a balanced high, mid and bass sound, so it is recommended to choose rounded corners. Rounded corners are generally more suitable for strumming and have more accompaniment.

2. Fingerstyle

If you need to play a lot of high-position fingerstyles, it is recommended to choose cutaway. The design of the notch is not for aesthetics, but for the convenience of playing to higher grades. If there is a need for a lot of fingerstyle playing at high positions, it is recommended to choose the notch.
In general, everything has its core value and necessity for existence.
There is nothing inherently good or bad about rounded corner guitars and cutaway guitars. It just depends on whether you need them or not, and whether you can use them or not.

(3) Price difference:

For many brands, guitars with the same configuration will be divided into cutaway models/rounded corners; at this time, if the two models have the same price, choose the model with more complete wood at the same price, and the tone is relatively full/round, and the CP value Is it higher~

*If you play a lot of solos/fingerstyles, choose the one with cutaway corners. If you play a lot of accompaniment/singing, or even a beginner, choose the one with rounded corners.

The biggest impact of the cutaway guitar is on the performance at the high position. For beginners, more than 99% of the repertoire in daily practice and performance does not use the high position part of the notch. It is not necessary for novices to choose a guitar. Spend more and go for a cutaway guitar.