Topic: Soundholes Unsound?
OK so I was at an open mic night last year and I noticed that the best sounding guitars were always Ovation models, no central soundhole. Down my local store there's even a rubber widget for blocking the soundhole of an electro-acoustic and eliminating feedback. Jazz guitars dropped the soundhole for two 'F' holes.
How come most other electro-acoustics keep with the single large soundhole? Is Ovation's approach routed in the past or just ultra-conservative for the feedback-phobic?
On the same line does an electro acoustic really need a deep body, given that the main sound comes from sensors?