Guitar Techniques

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

I’ve been drooling over guitars for 40 years now. And more than ever before, the finest guitars are presented to us in wonderful high-definition images. And seductive reviews make it very hard to resist. But buying without trying?

I have been saying forever that going to a store and trying an instrument was essential. Who would buy a guitar without spending some time playing it, and getting to know it?

But I hear them cry “I’m in a lockdown and can’t just go and try a load of guitars out,

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