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It will come back and bite us, eventually. We're not only outsourcing our jobs, we're outsourcing our wealth.
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That out of the way, I saw a tragic story coming out of China. The details are a bit fuzzy, so sorry for that. A school was destroyed by a natural disaster, and parent who lost a child in the tragedy, said in interviews, "we were following the one child law, and now we've lost our only one". Given China's of population growth, and sheer numbers of people, something needed to be done, wouldn't you say? As far as it goes, "it's about time", is as charitable as the rest of the world needs to be. So, "one child per family", is possibly "too little too late".. My earlier comments about India's prime minister saying "we can't be ignored now that we're a billion strong", are to best of my knowledge, correct. I couldn't believe my eyes when I read it. His comments were made in the context of India's "population clock" finally passing 1,000,000,000 people. Apparently, India does indeed have a population clock: And here's the UN statement of when that "goal" was reached: http://www.un.org/esa/population/pub...ia/ind1bil.htm In the case of India's potential role as the next major industrial power, due to it's vast population, I suppose we'll have to wait and see. The incidences of their world success I have seen thus far, are in part due to their status as a former British Colony, with the resultant familiarity with English language and culture. I do know they're likely the worlds largest supplier supplier of sitars already. That doesn't really enter into this discussion about guitars. Last edited by Captaincranky; 03-29-2015 at 10:58 PM. |
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Yairi
Now here is a Yairi that was right below. For that money dif, there, I would pick up the Yairi.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Alva...91320944&rt=nc Today's Yairi's are still AAA guitars. Yairis are finished in their shop in Japan. Alvarez guitars are checked out by the luthiers there, and then shipped out. They have great QC. A friend of mine picked up a Taylor 214CE about 5 years ago, It has turned out to be a great guitar, plus he is a better player because of it. I played with him on Friday night, and he and his guitar are sounding great. Best, JIm
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Beautiful! I love my Mexi-Martin as well. Build quality seems good, the sound is excellent and the neck is great. I can't afford anything better right now, but I can say I'm very happy with this Martin.
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with all the discussion of laminate, the difference is a plywwod vice laminate process. lamination as i understand it is the process of binding a not so nice SOLID WOOD to another nicer piece of SOLID WOOD. much different than the plywood really cheap but competatively priced knockoff childrens guitars. there are a wide choice at the poorer guitar shops of cheap guitars that have no redeeming qualities and the lower end of the better makers like alvarez, yamaha, even the martins,gibsons and taylors. it all comes down for me, does the instrument speak to you. If it does and makes you want to hear it, then own it until the need for something better arrives.
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I agree - it is the golden age. I recall the guitars available in the 50s, 60s, 70, and 80s - the 50s began with cheap plywood guitars with high action (enough to put anyone off) The 60s and 70s progressed with better action but still most were plywood. The 80s saw some effort to improve quality and in the 90s we started to see some cheaper solid tops. Since the early 2000s the all solid affordable acoustic has become more available. And now for £500 or so the guitar player has a huge choice of really good well made acoustics.
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Africa. You don't need a massive pool to build guitars. It wouldn't surprise me to see more play in the Caribbean in the not-too-distant future.
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I was at Guitar Center last week for the 4th of July sale. My son bought a $199 Epiphone for $99. I took it home and put Ernie Ball 80/20 strings on it and I'm blown away with the sound.
Now it does not have the smooth tone of my $900 Martin, plus my Martin neck is wider (nice for my big hands and fingers). Yes, there are some deals out there for sure.
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But my common sense tells me a couple things. If they laminated 3 pieces of the same wood together, they will tell you this. Guitars that sell for less than 3 or 4 hundred dollars and are built in China, they use a filler wood. Maybe most of them do, I don't know. Laminate is the process of joining layers of wood. The type of wood is irrelevant
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