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estebanana -> RE: New guitar "break in"? (Feb. 21 2014 1:42:53)
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So then as someone who has always wanted to own an expensive handmade luthier instrument, why should I bother upgrading from my $200 cheap Yamaha?
What do your ears tell you?
If it were me in your situation, I would upgrade to the $500.00 Yamaha first. The $500.00 dollar Yamaha is head and shoulders a better guitar than the cheapest one. It sounds better and plays better and it is not a great expenditure to lay out in order to see what an upgrade feels like.
I always encourage players to upgrade at a moderate pace and not jump from the first guitar to the 7000.00 Conde'- because you don't know exactly what kind of a player you are yet. Our tastes and opinions change and you have to collect your guitars at that pace. You might like one sound now and then in three years outgrow that sound and think you were wrong about that kind of sound. Then three years later you might reverse that opinion and realize the true you is the first sound that struck you. If you latch onto a 7000.00 instrument right in the beginning you won't be giving yourself the time to develop without the prejudice of owning an expensive instrument and your wallet a pride can get all wrapped up in your next choice.
Between the 500.00 and the 2500.00 Valencia factory guitar there's a step up, sometimes a small step, sometimes a big leap. After that the leaps are still there, but you have to know what you are looking for. You can trust your gut about the sound of a 4000.00 guitar and it will probably be right, but I always say go at a moderate pace of developing a taste for guitars.
The $200 Yamaha will not give you as much satisfaction in richness of sound and playability after you sample a few very fine guitars, be they $2500 or $7000, but go slow and decide why the higher cost guitars feel better and sound better.
It's not my place to try to up sell you a guitar, it's your responsibility to go out and educate yourself and enjoy the process of learning about guitars. If you have to ask why there is a difference between the 200 and the 7000 dollar guitar ( and maybe your question is purely hypothetical) then is leads me to think you have lot of discoveries to make about guitar sound. I say discoveries in the sense that they will be fun, satisfying and mind/ear altering discoveries if you go at medium pace and play as many guitars as you can.
Do I want to sell guitars? Sure, of course. Do I want people to enjoy the spectrum of sounds and guitars out there? You bet I do. Why? Because if you know what is out there and you pick me or someone else to make your guitar it means much more because you made an educated effort to understand what we as guitar makers are trying to do, besides making a living. We don't make lot of money doing this, so there must be something else driving us to make guitars besides money.
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