OK. 3/4 scale nylon string that doesn't suck?

Mark Wein

Mark Wein

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The kid from last week doesn't like his fingers to hurt so now we've moved from the electric to a nylon string. What doesn't suck?
 
Help!I'maRock! said:
it won't matter. any kid who complains their fingers hurt is done by the next month.
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I've had two kids and a couple of adults in the last few months complain about that after years of never hearing about painful fingers. They've all stuck with it but I'm a little over it all. The adults especially.


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Mark Wein said:
I've had two kids and a couple of adults in the last few months complain about that after years of never hearing about painful fingers. They've all stuck with it but I'm a little over it all. The adults especially.


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tell the adults to man up. "pain is the sensation of weakness leaving the body."
 
I agree with Howie, kind of.

Yamaha is my first and really only choice for classical guitars under a grand. La Patrie is a decent runner up. I honestly don't understand why anyone would buy anything else, unless there's none in the immediate vicinity and they have zero patience.

And unless the kid is younger than, say, 8, I'd also say to hell with 3/4 and go for the real thing.
 
The kid is 11, but much smaller than my son, who is a large 8 year old.


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Carol has very sensitive skin - you should see how hard it is for her to find clothes that don't irritate her skin. She will only play nylon strings. As for me, sure the steel strings hurt when I started, but I was in the projects and pain comes with the territory. :old:


Oh, and Yamaha is always good. Luna has the Safari 3/4 guitars, some with nylon strings.
 
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My dad hadnt played for a while and when he started again he said it hurt. You know what he did? Kept playing until it stopped hurting.
 
There used to be a Stagg 3/4 classical that had mahogany back and sides and a nice cedar top, but it was discontinued as I think it was too expensive to manufacture and parents were apt to go for the lowest possible denominator with 3/4 knowing that their darlings would grow out of it, without factoring in that it contributed greatly to their children developing a good ear for tone.

I think the Yamaha you have chosen was my second choice at that stage, and Yamaha have a long tradition of making lesser woods perform to their highest possible capacity, and meranti is what many Asian manufacturers call mahogany anyway.

EDIT: OK, you guys get Stagg's, this is close:

http://www.amazon.com/musical-instruments/dp/B005RA3AP0

http://dnmusic.net/store/acoustic-g...-guitar-w-spruce-top-mahogany-back-sides.html
 
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I just played a nice 3/4 Classical guitar at Broughton Music in Kalamazoo. I was driving past on my way to Greenlight Music record store, and saw Broughton's. They used to be on a different street and I thought that had closed down for good a couple of years ago. I had no idea they were open in a different location. So I went in to check them out. They are a Reverend dealer too :) They had 2 older Reverend guitars, a Club King 290 and some bolt-neck one that looked a couple of years discontinued, plus a bass. All 3 had serial #'s in the 11k range, and Reverends are up to what, 16k now?

Anywho, the 3/4 scale classical had really nice low action, and was under $200. If I wanted/needed a classical guitar, I'd certainly consider it :embarrassed:

http://broughtonmusiccenter.com
 
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