Dupont guitar's top

Joli Gadjo

Almost all the Dupont guitars offer the option to be built with a sitka spruce top or with red cedar top.
I only had the chance to experiment this with Taylor acoustic guitars, and it does make quite a difference moslty in sound not in volume.... But I have no idea how it affects / alters the sound of a gypsy guitar or even more of a Dupont.

Anyone out there has the knowledge on how cedar or spruce top will affect sound and volume of a GJ guitar ?
Thanks !
-JG
www.hcofdc.com

BluesBop Harry

I believe Dupont offers both Sitka and European spruce as well as cedar, to complicate things even more.
The ones I tried with a Cedar top have been consistently good regardless of maker with a sweeter sound, I haven't played a bad sounding cedar topped Selmer type guitar.

Cedar is supposed to sound great right away and spruce is said to need more time to "open up".

Lots of the younger players in Paris, like cedar better, arguing it is more polyvalent and regarding spruces as more traditional, "one-trick-pony" sounding tops on gypsy guitars. But thats' highly subjective.
I guess you'll have to try different guitars to find out what you like best.

Here's some info Shelley Park offers on the subject:
http://www.parkguitars.com/sound-characteristics/

Jazzaferri

Michael Dunn has been using cedar on his Ultrafox's I gather and he speaks very highly of it. I have a spruce top on my Dunn (nylon string) that I just got and the Ultrafox on order is going to be cedar.

IMO the difference in top will make little difference to the instrument after they are played inif the luthier completely understands his craft. Bob Benedetto made a great sounding archtop out of flatsawn pine and commented after ... maybe there is no such thing as bad tonewood.