Re: What's the minimum guitar for a beginner?

William wrote:
A set up is done by guitar technicians not luthiers. Real luthiers
build guitars and charge alot of money for their time.
Asking a luthier to do a guitar set up is like asking a transmission
mechanic to do an oil change.

A "real luthier" might work on any stringed instrument,
not just guitars. You'd be hard pressed to find a violin
luthier who has built a violin.

You'd also be hard pressed to find a guitar builder-luthier
who doesn't do setups.

And I'll bet you'd be hard pressed to find a transmission
mechanic who doesn't do oil changes.


Lumpy

In Your Ears for 40 Years
www.LumpyMusic.com





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