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Jacob Haller ([personal profile] jwgh) wrote2006-12-12 11:34 pm
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acquisition

Here's a used Washburn nylon-string guitar I bought today.

new guitar


I bought it in Warwick.

The other day I was at Luca Music in Pawtucket and was wandering around the guitar section. A salesman walked up to me and said, "Can I help you?" "Sure, I'm looking for a cheap classical guitar," I said. "OK, let me show you what we've got," he replied, and started leading me over to the classical guitars. After a few steps, he turned around and said, "Actually, we prefer the term 'inexpensive'."

[identity profile] ikkyu2.livejournal.com 2006-12-14 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
I wonder if it has the Buzz Feiten Tuning System (http://washburn.com/products/buzz/) on it? Basically this is a shortened nut-to-first-fret distance plus an altered way of tuning the instrument to make it sound more sonorous.

If you tune by ear, it doesn't matter; if you use an electronic tuner, though, it does. Either way it's worth finding out because the guitar will sound different and tune differently.