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1bassleft
Lowdown Cack-hander
Joined: 16 Feb 2005
Posts: 3722
Location: "Hit The North"
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 Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 12:16 am Post subject: Dumb instrument shop advice? Post 'em in |
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We've all heard it. They employ 'em off the street, you know. What gems have you been told?
I've had this one: "The only difference between the Jazz and the Precision is that the Jazz has an extra pickup - probably for stereo"
Not particularly funny, or proof that we're devolving. I reckon you regs can do better. |
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Michael
Lead Virtuoso
Joined: 02 Feb 2005
Posts: 1861
Location: Brisbane, Australia
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| Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 12:23 am Post subject: |
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Maybe they think they can swindle you out of a few pounds 1b, they just don't take you serious enough.  |
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1bassleft
Lowdown Cack-hander
Joined: 16 Feb 2005
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Location: "Hit The North"
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Atchly, the oppo, Mike. The same divvy got too confused about my enquiries about upgrading my PA - so he just turned around the store's trade-price catalogue and passed it to me.
 What an eye-opener! Whatever deal you bust from a store, don't feel guilty about it. Some of them (not all, it must be said) have huge margins. This was pre-WWW days, in this case. |
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glw
Lover of Fine Antigua
Joined: 18 Jul 2005
Posts: 1115
Location: Oxfordshire, Uk
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When I telephoned to ask for advice because I was having problems with the low E string falling off the nut on my Flying V, I was advised that I'd need something called a "string tree" (as if I'd never heard of such a marvel before).
I replied that I didn't think this was such a good idea, seeing as the area of the headstock where it would need to be situated is covered in a large truss rod cover featuring the Gibson logo. How crap would that have looked with a string tree in the middle of it?
Luckily when I got to the shop to show them the problem I was able to deal with someone who knew what he was doing. |
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1bassleft
Lowdown Cack-hander
Joined: 16 Feb 2005
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Location: "Hit The North"
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| And the V has an angled headstock. Perhaps the sales-unter-meister had just transferred from a bonsai nursery? |
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lee_UK
Rolling Stone No.8
Joined: 04 Feb 2005
Posts: 3233
Location: London, UK
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| there are some very knowedgeable people out there too, my local guitar shop is in Romford and the manager in there is not very polite but his knowledge is awsesome, i think people put up with his bluntness because of his impartial quality advice, he is a good player too, which ive noticed a lot of shop people arent, i cant stand a spotty 17 yr old trying to give me advice on a 68 Jap reissue strat when he clearly knows nothing about them, apart from the fact 'they are supposed to be good' . |
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