GOT KOTTKE'S GUITAR
I just recently purchased my third Taylor guitar -- the NS72ce -- and I love it. I have wanted to purchase a nylon-string for some time but could not bring myself to buy a good one because I just couldn't find one I liked well enough to justify the price. My wife said when I called her (after purchasing the NS72ce) I was giggling with glee. I just couldn't believe how good it sounded and played.

I also own a 514ce and 515c. The 515c has an interesting story. I first played one at a shop here in Houston in 1993. I didn't have the money to buy it, so I kept going back for many months to play it. When I finally had the money, I went into the shop and the owner informed me that he had sold it the week before. I was so disappointed. I called your company only to be told that you had only made about fifty 515c's and it would be a two-year wait on custom orders. In my frustration I asked what store had ordered the most of that model. I was told a shop in Minnesota called The Podium.

I called them up and asked if they had that model. The owner informed me he had one left but a fellow by the name of Leo Kottke was in that day playing it and wanted to think about it before he bought it. I wasn't sure who Leo Kottke was at the time, but I soon found out. I told the storeowner I didn't have to think about it and I wanted it. I gave him my credit card number and had him ship it.

Now I don't know for a fact that Leo Kottke was in that store trying it out, but I know your company came out with a Leo Kottke six-string model two years or so later that is very similar to my guitar. So if I bought that guitar out from under Mr. Kottke, I would say I'm sorry...but I'm not really...I love that guitar!

I own a music store here in Houston (Tempo School of Music). I play and teach many styles of music, including Fingerstyle and I have recommended your guitars to many of my students. Quite a few of them have purchased your instruments. Thanks for making guitars that have given me many hours of playing pleasure.