My friend with the nice guitars let me take his John Lennon Limited Edition model for a test drive. He was taken aback by the lack of responsiveness of his new guitar (his guitars are actually for his studio). I got the guitar home, popped open the case and began playing. No doubt this guitar is of a different flavor. First of all, it has a P-90 pickup. Haven’t seen too many acoustics with that! Carefully using my mirror to inspect the inside of the guitar revealed the source of its unique sound - ladder bracing on the soundboard. A little study revealed that ladder bracing was sometimes used (not always) in this model guitar. Ladder bracing is a much stiffer type of bracing normally reserved for the back of an acoustic guitar. So, why has it been used on the soundboard? As I said, this guitar has a P-90 pickup - a pickup ordinarily found on an electric guitar. This guitar is truly an electric/acoustic, and I found that it sounded quite nice through a normal amplifier. This isn’t a guitar that I would play every day, but it certainly could be utilized for some great live sounds, and I would like to hear it recorded in the studio on particular pieces.