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Hi @Dirk_R , I can only speak of my experience. The 1st acoustic that I bought was a D10EJr and I loved it – it became the only guitar that I played. When I joined TAC and started playing every day, I started to notice that I was having pain in my picking side shoulder. I couldn’t hardly throw anything overhand, just underhand. I thought it was because of my posture while playing. I started doing the TAC stretches and working on my playing posture, but it wasn’t really working. My son-in-law is a PT and gave me several exercises to do. I still had pain in that shoulder – assumed it was caused by arthritis and just thought I’d have to live with it.

One day last January, I decided I wanted to upgrade my guitar. Went to the local music shop and was looking at the new Gibson G45 model and a Martin D15m (both dreadnoughts – solid wood – US made). The sales person also showed me the 00015m. I noticed right away when I was playing the 000 that I had less pain in my shoulder. It’s amazing that those couple of inches made that much difference – changing the angle of my upper arm and releasing the tension (and pain) in my shoulder. So I bought the 000 and have been playing it since, and hardly experiencing any shoulder pain what so ever. And I can throw overhand once again.

YMMV

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