Guess The Wood! Blindfolded GUITAR Challenge

Can a PRO guitar luthier guess the woods of a guitar while BLINDFOLDED? In today's video, Brandon Acker will put Marshall Brune's ears to the test by playing his guitars and asking him to guess which the wood. Discover more about Marshall's work as a luthier here: Mebrune.com
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro
1:40 The Blindfolded Challenge
2:10 ROUND #1
4:30 ROUND #2
8:00 ROUND #3
10:31 What did we learn?
13:30 Outro

[@brandonacker]

YOU can win MY guitar: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pX_Lamtsr8-oY7c

[@strauchler.sebastian]

Cool!!

[@willywantoknow2563]

Hey Brandon and Marshall, i have a little game to play. Would you be able to recomended a few guitars that i should look at? My first guitar, not knowing anything, was a Godan seagull artist mosaic with cedar top auditorium body 14 fret cutaway. I find it a little large in body = don't play much now for being uncomfortable = fingers hurt more. Dont need it for what it was made for anymore. I like to pick and strum artistically but not much classically (curious to learn some) may occasionally jam a rhythm. A couch or campfire guitar that sounds nice, but not too afraid of elements. I can make full use of a 12 fret but a cutaway would be an added comfort as long as it doesnt take away from sound. Basically looking for an affordable gem. A strange thought i had was i may want a nylon/parlor or a 3/4 size classical with with truss rod. Even the crazy thought of a lamiated top🙊 (Fender fa15n bottom end goden motif perhaps as top end?) I don't want to miss out on any unknown options as the store is limited in variety unless i order in something. I live far away and wanted to be prepared before i walk in the store. Thanks for your time All the best.

[@rabbani8613]

What do you think about burl Wood sounds.

[@hamishcollins5174]

Vampire takes man hostage and forces him to listen to guitar.

[@TahaGuitarist]

💀

[@kaushalsuvarna5156]

Man blindfolds himself under the spell of a vampire

[@michaelrodriguez2919]

Hahaha damn...😂😂😂😂

[@lariog31]

GONE WRONG

[@bahoonies]

@hamishcollins5174 That's the sort of vampire I prefer😅😅. He might even force me to up my game on my guitar.

[@MarshallBrune]

It was absolutely amazing having you over! Thanks for playing these guitars!

[@Shiftarus]

Thanks for sharing your expertise, its always informative and entertaining!

[@caleb4367]

Are you wearing a Patek Philipe Tiffany 5711???

[@caleb4367]

Or is that an AP? Can’t tell.

[@Bob-of-Zoid]

@@caleb4367 It could be a "Made in china".

[@mayukhbera]

I feel like Marshall is that person with whom you can talk for hours about guitars and music in general, and his passion and knowledge will force you to immerse in it.

[@brandonacker]

Very true! All of our videos are actually 4 times longer than the final edit because we talk so much:)

[@mayukhbera]

@@brandonacker 😃😄

[@Randyball711]

The collaborations of you and Marshall are just fantastic. One is a masterful player and one is a masterful builder and together you have this amazing blend of passion and expertise for the classical guitar!

[@Bob-of-Zoid]

The title says "Guess the woods", and there's zero expertise in conducting completely flawed and worthless experiments!

[@Randyball711]

@@Bob-of-Zoid how does that relate to anything? The video is obviously for fun and not science. We can still appreciate that both these guys are highly knowledgeable.

[@Crovax]

One thing that astonishes me is the consistency Brandon has as a player. His execution is almost equal from one guitar to another. P.s: "i taste...arrogance" is meme worthy

[@scottconnuck3406]

Hey there, Brandon and Marshall. One of my memories from my conservatory days was seeing my friend and classmate, Lily Afshar, entering our guitar ensemble class with her brand new Brune! She was literally over the moon, and I could see why! The pumpkin color of the guitar was so unique and the sound she produced on the instrument was so rich and beautiful... she (and the rest of us) were mesmerized... I mean none of us could believe the experience of witnessing a beautiful performer playing on such a beautiful instrument with such an amazing sound! Thank you, Marshall, for creating your art so that guitarists can create theirs.

[@decomposingman]

These collaborations are one of my favorite things. I love seeing two masters of their crafts unifying their talents.

[@jackbuff_I]

That piece you played in the trickster round.. heaven 👌 ♥

[@norrdal]

I'm not sure what I'm more stunned by: The fact that Marshall can differentiate wood by the sound of a guitar or that there seems to be a Tiffany Nautilus on his wrist.

[@BRMvegas]

Was hoping someone else noticed that!

[@selfless727]

How much are those?

[@bakedandsteaked]

​@@selfless727I'm gonna take a wild guess that it's quite expensive

[@xdoctorblindx]

To my ears, the cedar+Brazilian checks all the boxes.

[@kevinmaillet4712]

Getting close to 500K subscribers!!!!

[@Incandescentiron]

This is so much more interesting than reality television!

[@Oddigan]

What isn't? 😂 I agree with the sentiment though.

[@seanforsythe78]

as a novice luthier. id kill for the opportunity to learn under Marshall.

[@pcorriveau1982]

Finding the right guitar for you is more than just specs on paper. There is nothing like going to the store and try different brands and different guitars to find the perfect match.

[@syntaxlost9239]

Then seeing the price tag and realising it's not meant to be.

[@neiliusflavius]

You know something isn't cheap when the special offer is $500 dollars off! (not for a moment suggesting they should be cheap)

[@CameraLaw]

Excellent show! My ears aren’t as well tuned as Marshall’s, but I agree the sweetness of the Cedar/Indian was roundly delicious. Worked so well with Villa-Lobos.

[@mcxhalo]

This whole video is INVALID. Marshall didn't have his glasses on.

[@DarrylMellema]

That was very cool. I love the videos the two of you make -- and always end up sharing them with non-guitarists. who *also* find them interesting.

[@jasongoodyer2587]

Great video! I’ve always wondered about this. Also, amazing choice of pieces and really nice playing from Brandon. Bravo guys.

[@jasongoodyer2587]

I love the roll on the Villa Lobos. I’m definitely doing that now.

[@illukka]

The videos with Marshall on are fabulous! also his instruments sound great too! This is top content!

[@dann5480]

Guitar # 2 sounded amazing.

[@seth094978]

Brass player here: I couldn't really hear any difference between the different backs, but the spruce vs cedar was obvious from the first notes. I think whatever the difference is between those two is similar to the difference between 4/4 and 5/4 tubas or .500 vs .547 trombones.

[@Incandescentiron]

Fantastic. I love this series.

[@eranzaksh]

Omg those guitars sounds soooo good 😮

[@dalgguitars]

This is so fun! Thank you Marshall!!!!

[@kevinlacayo822]

Beautiful as always

[@tod3273]

Wow! Such delightfully complimentary skill sets! Thanks so much your videos always put a huge smile on my face and remind me of all the good things in the world 🎉

[@noahtrock]

Seriously! They were all amazing! I would be thrilled to own any of them.

[@cerhio74]

Great guitars! Had a chance to play on them during The LA Guitar Festival this weekend. ❤❤

[@marcosalmeida3912]

Awesome ‘experiment’! Thanks a lot.

[@jcwear89]

Really interesting to hear it, and the piazzola piece brought out the difference really well.

[@YouTubeHandlesAreMoronic]

Now, keep all four guitars, play them daily for 10 years, and then try this test again...

[@richardburchfield904]

You need to play him a double top with cedar and spruce and ask him which is on top.

[@kyleswenson8815]

I absolutely love the sound of the Cedar and Indian guitar.

[@christopherstanford5599]

Definitely a case of the luthier fabricating outstanding instruments with excellent materials 🎶🎵

[@RobertFisher1969]

Nice comparison! The complicating factor is that without a large sample set, it is hard to say how much variation there is within a single wood type.

[@andreprayoga4629]

I like this kind of content 😂

[@melissamusick8300]

I’m at a tremo-loss to describe how much I’d love to get my hands on one of those gorgeous guitars.

[@charlielucas3386]

😂😂

[@rh9909]

Aside from great craftsmanship Marshall also has great humor. He must be such a good friend to have.

[@nemesis11fp20]

First thing I buy when I win the lottery is an ME Brune guitar.

[@chub2000asdaq]

4:17 - Brilliant out of context sentence

[@edwardgriffin8092]

After hearing them it's defiantly, "Cedar and Brazilian" for me. They all sound amazing, but the "Cedar & Brazilian" just had the edge for me.

[@miketurner1768]

Amazing guys..... Great trying to hear the difference myself. 👍🎸🎸🎸🎸

[@kierongilfillan7783]

Love your videos love your content

[@Zayphar]

If only I had an extra $10K, and 2 years of free time. But, alas...

[@kadewoodtechfolder]

quite amazing how trained guitar makers can actually identify these types of changes. these guys are phenomenal

[@Nosnehp]

I had to go with a red cedar top and Indian rosewood back and sides, because it had a sort of mellow tone that to my ears is much more pleasing.

[@oscriadocomandosancto2898]

My man is looking majestic

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

Here we go again, another fun test

[@PainkillerDCXVI]

I have a Spruce top and Brazilian Rosewood guitar and it's incredible. It has such a powerful bass and bell like trebles. Very loud too and full of harmonics. But It was wild to tame, it took me quite a while to find the best set of strings for it.

[@tannerlong9893]

Wow those guitars sound truly amazing. I want a guitar of that quality one day

[@bazwillrun]

Well yes, we all like and want good wood ...oh hold on !

[@picksalot1]

It's both instructive and enjoyable to watch and hear comparisons like this. It would be great to hear these guitars again in a year to compare how their sound has aged, changed, and matured. But, I know that's not a very likely scenario. Thanks I think the Microphone position or recording method could be improved some, as all the guitars sounded like they had more bass than would occur naturally. It was as if there was proximity effect, but the mic didn't look particularly close to the guitars. 🤷

[@fugithegreat]

Love me some Marshall content!

[@icap8830]

Nice setup I wish you could do a session-video on strings…types and brands

[@russellharris5072]

Brazillian does sound slightly different,I have a friend who Had C F Martin make his preference of a standard guitar.I have the standard version and although they both sound beatuful, the Brazillian just has that wonderful extra bit of clarity and his also has Adirondak spruce for the top,mine has bearclaw sitka.................................

[@susanyoung1600]

Wow! Marshall's ear is astounding!

[@StephenRomary]

Brandon would you do a tutorial on that first piece (Villa Lobos, Prelude 1)? Lovely and it seems like very acceesible way into classical, at least just those first few bars you played. Thanks.

[@MichaelJazayeriMD]

Awesome comparison. Maybe the first one ever done!

[@acdclexu6296]

we need more Brandall

[@jackbuff_I]

Those are an absolute thing of beauty 👌wow 😍

[@MrJackGrave]

Very interesting video. To my untrained ears that spruce top quitar (even from limited sample) sounds absolutely brilliant as parlour instrument while playing for small audience. I love those crisp trebles and slightly muted basses. And contrary those with cedar top should be ideal for playng in auditorium for greater audience where louder and bassier tones are needed. Lovely very lovely.

[@santiagobluerain9370]

I really enjoy your tv. video great talent my friend 🎸

[@ljdobles8104]

It would have been great to have heard another round with the spruce guitars 😍

[@NickKouls]

I absolutely love the sound of brazilian rosewood guitars and the beautiful shapes the wood makes in the back. I never regreted having one made for myself. Best guitar I ever owned 😊 Edit : Make more videos with Marshall,I love this stuff !!

[@matticeverhoeven6539]

Indian and Cedar is my fav.

[@zvonimirtosic6171]

Firstly, excellent playing of Villa Lobos Prelude. As for the guitars, Brazilian Rosewood is seems, almost universally, scoops out the mids because it's a harder type of rosewood, so it sounds a bit 'boomier'. But Indian rosewood leaves more mids, it does not 'scoop' them as much because Indian rosewood is a bit softer type of rosewood, which then sweetens up the sound.

[@lukegalvin6498]

Learning tango en ski taken a break turned this video on what was the background 😅😅😅😂😂❤

[@cratecruncher6687]

Interesting experiment. I have an all-mahogany Yamaha FG850 that is much brighter than spruce. I expected the hardwood cedar to be the same.

[@chrisbreuer3575]

Tiffany Nautilus…. Beautiful mate

[@ARTUROSIERRALOPEZ]

This is the right way to do blinfold test, another person playing.

[@BabaBest2000]

Norwegian Wood was originally titled Knowing She Would

[@lynxg4641]

Well now, that was interesting and seems to have proved my thoughts that the back and sides do play quite a big role in the sound, more so than a lot would think. Definitely like what the Brazilian Rosewood does to the sounds vs the Indian Rosewood. To the tops, think I prefer the Cedar over Spruce with the Brazilian Rosewood, more overall range it seems to me.

[@IQzminus2]

I decide to close my eyes and see if the wood made any difference in what sound I preferred. And learned I really like cedar tops. And I was surprised how there was quite a bit of difference in tone, even from the wood of the sides and back. Though I’m nowhere near skilled or experienced enough to be able to distinguish or recognise the woods from sound alone. That is some seriously impressive stuff! But what sound I liked from the different guitars was quite consistent. I liked the cedar top the best the first round. And in round 2 and 3 I liked the cedar top and Indian rosewood combination the best. For my next guitar, whenever that is. I think I’ll look a bit extra at the cedar tops. I really liked the sound of both the cedar guitars. And maybe also specifically the cedar top and Indian rosewood combo. Because to me it stood out in both round 2 and 3 as the type of warm sound I’m drawn to.

[@noorhayati6660]

Brandon you've got a lot of compliments, now I give one for the guitar maker.

[@wbajzek]

Did we ever hear the spruce and Indian?

[@brandonacker]

I accidentally forgot to include it. 😬

[@PaulAshley]

I was surprised to find I liked the Indian Rosewood cedar-topped the best. What strings were used?

[@christofinb]

I’d really wish someone would do a test and more frequent reviews of more affordable guitars and comparison of like for like models from known brands like Cordoba, Alhambra, Raimondo, Camps etc It is interesting doing high end hand built but want some comparison of guitars out there in more of the common market would be useful for students.

[@StarQueenEstrella]

This surprised me, especially RE: the back and sides of the guitars. Although it probably doesn’t exist anymore (and likely fetches the equivalent of multiple mortgages), I would be curious to hear that guitar Torres made wherein the back and sides are papier-mâché.

[@frogmouth]

Very interesting

[@stevierv22]

I would have let him hear all 4 guitars before guessing the wood. Nice video 🙂

[@attilaluchini579]

bellissimi e interessanti video,grszie

[@unitedintraditions]

Back and sides make little difference. Torres made paper mache back and sides guitar.

[@martijnlovesbach]

Comparing Rosewood with Rosewood….Im not sure if you would come to the same conclusions if you would compare Cypress or Maple back and sides with rosewood…

[@sugar4177]

Can RE brune also participate in some of these challenges would be very interesting 😅

[@usamazaheer9194]

Totally unrelated to the video, Marshall looks very similar to a guy named Anthony from the channel Linus Tech Tips. When I first saw him, he felt very familiar. I wonder if these two are somehow distantly related. Please dont take this wrong, what I mean two say is both of these gentlemen seem like very kind people. They even have the same voice tone, demeanor, almost identical faces, and are, well, absolute experts in their respective fields. Brandon if you are reading this, I would love to hear/see Marshall's reaction to this. If I am not wrong, people who are subscribers of both LTT and your channel would love to see it too. Anthony is a favorite and so is Marshall. Two absolute gentlemen.

[@kentl7228]

Cool video. Is the construction like bracing identical in all of them? Here is where species is more believable to tone unlike electric guitars where it doesn't matter...

[@obi-wankenobi7782]

I like this Marshall guy.

[@amtalbot3776]

What if the instrument had more than one type of wood for the back. I wonder how that would play out. I don't play guitar, but my viola da gamba has vertical alternating strips of walnut and maple for the back. I wonder if one dominates the other or would they somehow merge into something different to both individual qualities?

[@johnog8358]

I'd love to hear something odd ball in here like a Portuguese koa classical

[@MH3GL]

"It's like a piano with hammers." But.... A piano does...have...hammers... 😶

[@ThomasDzergl]

Hello, the sound is really low on this video. Loved it anyway of course ;)

[@DrDoohickey]

The spruce and cedar sound noticeably different, even to a novice with a decent ear. But isn't the difference between woods used on the back and sides outweighed by the variation inherent in construction? Surely two instruments with the same materials and starting specifications are still bound to differ enough to make the choice of wood for the back and sides relatively unimportant?

[@grkuntzmd]

My hearing isn't very good (inherited hearing defect), but to me, the spruce sounds brighter and the cedar warmer, and the Indian rosewood is also brighter and the Brazilian rosewood is warmer.

[@yoba6037]

Amazing, guy

[@baggermaster]

Do you think, you can hear if there is paint on the guitar, or if its raw wood?

[@spedrun]

Just curious, how did you get enough brazilian rosewood to make guitars out of? My understanding is that it's not legal to import (or at least to export from brazil)? Is there, like, some kind of rosewood farm or something out there?

[@maboesanman]

I would’ve liked to see an oscilloscope display of the tones of the guitar to see if the waveforms are visibly distinct

[@jasonjayalap]

My guess is that with a spectrum analysis with a machine arm playing the guitar it would be shocking if two guitars were 100% identical down to the resolution of our tools. Then you'd ask "Is human hearing capable of 'zooming in' this far?" and you'd get this video.

[@themedallostoryteller1105]

We all know wood is important when it comes to acoustic instruments, but what do you think about tonewood on electric guitars? would it make any difference? or would it be just a small almost imperceptible difference? I'd love to see your opinion

[@brandonacker]

Personally I think 99% of the tone on electrics come from the electronics. The wood is mostly aesthetic.