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A nice slant on tips on buying a guitar. The ones I like the best are leave the store and go back to the store. The thing I hate about music shops is the sales person pressuring you to buy. I want to try lots of guitars when I am buying and no single store has everything. Once I have it, it becomes part of my family, but where it is different to my real family, I get to choose the guitar family members and develop a relationship with them that will usually extend for years. Sometimes you get it wrong, and going with your gut, AFTER you have checked everything else is really important. Will you love this instrument? Will it love you?

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Oh man, I can’t stand pushy salespeople. Or salespeople trying to give me a guitar I didn’t ask for. I’m with you on trying different guitars. One of my Teles I went through three of the same model before deciding

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And so you should. I've seen shops with 40 of each model. It's not just about colour. They are not all the same instrument, much as they'd like us to think so.

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