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Old 05-08-2011, 07:56 AM
limnephilidae limnephilidae is offline
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It sounds like he's really after a steel string dreadnaught, jumbo, or GA style; if he liked that large body steel sound then he isn't likely to be happy with a classical. Steel strings are tough on everyone when they first start out. Given that my job unfortunately involves no manual labour, my hands were very sore the first few weeks of learning. I'm surprised you didn't say that it was part of the learning curve.

Callus building is part of the package. Are you going to recommend that he use a capo for barre chords when gets to that point too?
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