Re: Beginner guitar reco - Yamaha / Takamine?


Lumpy wrote:


Make the comparison with a guitar setup. A LUTHIER (a
professional guitar mechanic, not a pimply faced kid
at Banjos-R-Us) will take into consideration the player's
style, the string gauge, the time of year, the construction
of the guitar etc when tweaking all of the tiny things that
can be tweaked. Player experience, picks vs fingers, light vs
med strings, folk strums vs celtic hip-hop etc all figure into
how the luthier can/should make adjustments.

Is that how shops ussually work, pimply face kids making the setup? In
that case, I have been lucky. My local guitar shop is owned by a
luthier (in fact rather than a guitar shop it's a luthier that also
sells some guitars).
A bigger shop I have visited told me they would send guitars to a
professional luthier, but obviously he never gets to talk to the
client.

To the OP: I have dicovered that spending a bit more initially often
gets you better deal in the end. For example my local shop mentioned
above is a bit more expensive, but includes a basic setup, when you buy
the guitar, a proper one after 1.5 months and a revision after a
further nine months. You have mentioned Toys R' Us before. I bet they
don't offer such a service and adding things up you eventually spend
more.

Stefan

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