It certainly matters, but it's a thing of diminishing returns.
Many people buy a $100 guitar (or cheaper) that's hardly worthy of the name and quit.
They quit because they just can't get a clean note or chord out of it and think they "don't have it"…
"Vintage" just means "old". There's as much (if not more) rubbish being pilfered as "vintage" as there is new, but the prices are a lot higher.
Info on custom built (pretty much everything is marketed as handbuilt, it can mean as little as that som…
yah. GWB seems to know what he's doing, though he's of course held back by the lack of a strap on that Jumbo.
BHO is just grinning while holding that strange thing someone shoved in his hands, waiting for Mr. Teleprompter to tell him what to say :)
the only way to keep it 'in peak condition' is to not play it, to keep it away from light, keep it at constant temperature and humidity.
That would dictate keeping it in its case in a sealed and climate controlled room and never take it out to look…
wouldn't soon sell my Tanglewood (though the other one I may sell, being a Jumbo it's uncomfortably large), but many people consider them automatically low quality because they're not American...
There's still this misconception that there are only…
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