4 Apr
2013
4 Apr
'13
7:59 a.m.
On 04/02/2013 01:04 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Tue, 2013-04-02 at 21:58 +0200, Tim Goetze wrote:
My only electric guitar (don't have it anymore) was a Les Paul copy
bought the year before the vendor started calling it a Les Paul copy.
Outside of the weight and shape, it had nothing else in common with a
Les Paul. The pickups lacked the Les Paul punch. The neck lacked
smoothness, the frets were rough, the factory action way too high. But
it was US$200 in the late 1960s, vs a whole lot more for a real Les Paul.
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Good point. I prefer my own < 1000 EUR guitars to other low cost
guitars, because I'm accustomed to play them, but because I'm not making
music that often nowadays, I noticed that playing a guitar > 1000 EUR is
easier to do, than playing my own guitars. IMO fingerboards, resp. the
complete neck of more expensive guitars is better, often the guitars are
better balanced, have better cutaways etc. pp., just the mechanics of
old guitars often is less good. Sustain should be ok for < 1000 EUR
e. guitars too, but sometimes new guitars (also the expensive new ones)
don't sound like old electric guitars. I don't claim that new guitars do
sound less good, I like some of the new guitars, but they do not sound
like old guitars.
However, IMO expensive guitars are better to play, sometimes even the
position of the pots is better for expensive guitars and for sure an
acoustic guitar with a good sound, that has clean octaves etc. always is
expensive.
Of course, I'm talking about 2000 to 3000 EUR and not about 15000
EUR ;).