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On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Jonathan King wrote:
On 11/3/07, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Vern Green wrote:
I think the same could be said for anyone willing to pay more than
$1,000 for a guitar. Why would someone do that? When you answer that
question, I think you will find the answer to why someone would spend
over a $1,000 for an entertainment player.
I happen to have never paid $1000+ for a guitar but I have a guitar
that is supposedly worth more than that. I just bought it about 25
years ago for $700 and it has increased in value.
There are two ways to look at this. The first one is that inflation took
you into the above $1000 category, so you're okay by Vern. The other way
to look at it is that $700 was a ton of money to be spending on a guitar
back then (well over $1000 in 2007 dollars) and Vern can be
appropriately disgusted at you.
That's true, especially if you consider my income at the time. I think I
paid more like $1200 for the Mesa Boogie Mark II-C (or maybe "B" - I
forget), so I was putting down almost $2000 for a guitar-amp combo, and
another $450 for a digital delay. That was all the money I had.
I'm going to take a third approach, and disagree with Vern. I will agree
that more than $1K on a *solid body electric* seems pretty silly if
you're just talking about the sound of the thing. But if we're talking
about an acoustic or particularly a classical guitar, I think it is more
justifiable. (I will grant that there are very nice sounding acoustics
for rather less than $1K, but there are much nicer acoustics for more
than $1K.)
With the solid-body electric, the pickups have a big effect on sound.
After that, you care about the feel, but you should be able to do well
without paying a lot of money.
Another really pricey thing is a good jazz guitar -- a hollow-body
electric like a Gibson L5. If you're going to be a pro jazz player you'll
probably need something like that and it will cost you. Think of how much
you can save by buying this guitar:
http://www.amazon.com/Gibson-Custom-Shop-Electric-Sunburst/dp/B000CSRN2I
That's $4,252 off list!! Hurry up -- only two left! Good luck finding a
good price on a used one.
And then there are viola prices, which appear to be set by defense
contractors or something...but I digress.
One of my frirends, who doesn't seem to have a lot of money has a violin
appraised at $30,000. Sometimes you can get a deal if you know what you
are doing and the seller doesn't know what s/he's doing.
I know what you mean though.
Me, too. There are definitely people who want to overpay for stuff.
Stereo equipment is one of those areas. There was a store in Madison, WI,
that was infamous for overcharging. Prices were really determined by the
sales people on the floor. They used to have contests to see who could
sell a turntable needle cartridge for the most money. One guy managed to
get a customer to pay $160 for a $20 cartridge. We used to shop there for
the great prices, but you had to do your research and stick to your plan
when you got there.
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