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Old 01-14-2010, 09:48 AM   #2 (permalink)
GuitarBizarre
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Simply put, you're going to hate this advice.

Go into a guitar shop, sit down, and FORCE a sales rep to pick out guitars for you, one after the other. Play them all. Take at least half an hour in total, just picking up and playing various guitars. Preferably much longer. Go in when its quiet so the sales rep can't pull a fast one and walk off after giving you a guitar HE likes.

I can recommend things to you all day, but at the end of the day, acoustic guitars are definitely something where build quality is everything, and that varies from guitar to guitar, not just maker to maker. Better QC can ensure a good 'low' line, but every so often, guitar makers let a guitar slip out the door from a low end line, that is built much better than it really ought to be for the price. That was the case with my breedlove, and its the main reason I absolutely cannot recommend enough to go into a shop and annoy the sales staff by trying a hundred guitars, just to find the one really nice one.
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