Mini-JUmbos?

Is that truly a "mini jumbo" or a Grand Auditorium?

Not sure what you are talking about here.  Both Mini Jumbos and Grand Auditoriums have rounded bottoms.  What's the "flattened" referring to? 

Robert, I have played both of those Washburns you posted. There were actually 3 in the shop - with hog, maple and rosewood b/s.

I was quite underwhelmed by all of them. Theywere thin sounding. I thought the Sigmas OM's I tried blew them away.

I would submit that a Grand Auditorium and a Mini-Jumbo are, essentially, the same animal...



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Yeah, come to think of it my reasoning was completely unsound and unfounded considering the curve that has to be used for a cutaway. Visually by the pictures on the respective websites the Seagull mini-jumbo appears to be more round-bottomed than the Taylor GA, but that is probably a function of design rather than any construction issue.







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I've measured and compared the fit of both the Mini Jumbos from Godin and the GAs from Taylor.  They are not the same, close, but still different.

The mini jumbo has a larger lower bout than even a dreadnaught.  If you try to put a mini jumbo in any hard shell case that's made to fit any normal dread, it just won't fit.  The lower bout is too big.

A Taylor GA on the other hand is pretty much exactly the same size as any typical dread with just the waistline being slimmer.  A GA will fit into any case ( I've tried a bunch, even the Tric case etc.) that a dread will fit into.

Lastly, play the two long enough and you'll notice your strumming arm will tire out faster on a mini jumbo than on a GA because it is actually having to wrap around a larger bottom.  A mini jumbo truly is a bigger guitar than a GA, and even a dread, but just at the bottom.  It only seems smaller for the same reason a GA seems smaller and that's the slim waistline.  A slim waistline can make a guitar feel deceptively small.