Paul Smeenus

I paid about $1200 for my electric bass rig and $200 for my acoustic. It'd just effin' suck to not be able to afford to buy the instrument I play. Sure I could spend that much on high end stuff but what I have is perfectly serviceable and sounds fine. Yay affordable gear

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Burning Down

Guitarists are lucky that their instruments don't generally cost a whole lot of money. I've never heard of someone financing a guitar, unless it is specifically custom made (and usually when you're ordering custom made you have the cash to pay for it upfront). Cheap guitars and amps can actually sound very good. Cheap orchestral instruments sound like absolute shit, especially the cheap $1000 or less flutes, as they are made of brass and very heavy (brass is really only suitable for saxes and brass instruments - d'oh).

I considered leasing the alto flute that I bought, it's much like leasing a car. But I thought, wow I could just wait and put that money into my savings account every month so I could just buy my own. Leasing just means it's not yours, it's a long term rental. I'd rather have my own.

LoathsomePete

Newest addition to my increasingly large instrument collection. Doing it as a "rent-to-own" program with only $25 a month. It's got a few dings though that I wish we went over in the store but oh well, it plays beautifully.

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Burning Down

Nice! Are you learning it? I had to learn the basics of violin in school and coming from a bass (and guitar) background, I had to get over the initial shock of not having frets (so having to remember to place my fingers absolutely correctly on the fingerboard). And that the strings are GDAE. And a few other things, like how to tune it properly, lol.

My boyfriend plays violin quite well though.

LoathsomePete

I play mandolin as well which uses the same tuning and has a very similar scale so the only hard part has been getting use to the bow. I got this cool "First Fret" sticker thing which puts imaginary frets on the fingerboard so I can learn and memorize the positions.

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Burning Down

I've seen those stickers! I never had to use them as I used my boyfriend's violin which has a well-worn fingerboard. So I would place my fingers where his fingers had been before, haha. Getting used to the bow will take a couple of weeks with regular practice, especially learning to hold it properly at the frog. Also make sure you use the rosin so you'll be able to make a sound!

Paul Smeenus

Ima get me one of these

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GuD

That looks pretty heavy dude.

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Lord Larehip

This isn't mine but I sure wish it was.

LoathsomePete

I was a little overzealous with the rosin and now my strings are caked with the stuff.

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