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you know what they say: any guitar can be a great guitar with a little work, but some guitars [any well-known brand] need a little more [25–100% of the price of the instrument] work than others

in absolute money spent terms I wonder if getting one of those $150 squier amazon-exclusive guitars makes sense considering you'll need to spend that much on fixing it anyway

… wait but you could also just get an actually good guitar for that total sum

Hmmm

Fender commissioned a study which found that 90% of guitar players quit after the first year, and the remaining 10% will go on to spend $10,000 on guitars in their lifetime. Fender are very proud of this, with their QC working tirelessly to ensure that 10% is never exceeded,

a cynic might argue that Fender do not want to sell you an instrument that is good, they want to sell you an instrument that will make you want to buy another instrument later, one which is also not good but is more expensive, which will then make you for some reason buy yet ano—

this works because guitarists are idiots (us included)

@hikari It's even worse in the ukelele field, because they are cheaper. So, you get instruments that are probably unplayable at less than £20, despite the fact that, if you take advice beforehand, you CAN get a playable one for £50. And the few that persist then buy the £50 one as a second instrument, and a £75 one as a third, rather than spending £100 for one decent one in the first place, and end up with 7 mediocre ones rather than 2 good ones.