| Title: | GUITARnotes - Where Every Note has Emotion |
| Notice: | Discussion of the finer stringed instruments |
| Moderator: | KDX200::COOPER |
| Created: | Thu Aug 14 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3280 |
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Hi! I am a relatively new guitar player. So far I have been using my mother's old acoustic guitar from sometime in the early sixties. Now I am planning to buy an electric guitar. I found a guitar of a brand called Venson for as little as $156. The shop where I found it has a promotion right now, the stated listprice is $240. All of this to be found in Bangkok where I live for the time being. The question is whether anyone knows about this brand? Is it reasonably good? What is the price for this guitar in the US? Initially I was planning to buy a guitar when I get to the US on holiday early next year, but maybe this offer is too good to be missed? /regards, Magnus Lundgren [Posted by WWW Notes gateway]
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| 3146.1 | CHEFS::BRIGGS_R | they use computers don't they | Mon Dec 11 1995 03:02 | 25 | |
I have never been to Thailand but know the Philippines well. Maybe this
advice applies maybe not. Either way you may find it interesting.
Beware copies. Cheap guitars with Fender, Ovation and Gibson on the
headstock abound in the Philippines. They are so atrociously BAD that no
guitarist who's played more than a year or so would be taken in.
Actually I believe they are so bad that the companies involved just
turn a blind eye because they could never be mistaken by a practising
guitarist. It could be argued that they are good advertising in a
perverted sort of way! Genuine imported guitars are horrendously
expensive (especially for locals) and are quite rare in the shops. Even
reputable department stores sell these locally produced copies.
I was going to buy one as a souvenir before I went there again three
years ago. My thinking was "Well it may not be Gibson quality but they
are probably ok guitars". They were not OK. They were almost unplayable
really.
Also, musical instruments (e.g. classical style) produced for local
market don't apparently stand up to centrally heated houses in Europe
very long.
regards
Richard
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| 3146.2 | AIAG::WISNER | any thought can be the beginning... | Thu Dec 14 1995 11:30 | 9 | |
The brand Venson does not appear in my '96 Buyers Guide (Guitar World
magazine).
Maybe we should start a topic "How to evaluate a Guitar when your still
a beginner". There are a few things I wish I had known.
I agree with the idea that you should always get the best guitar you can
afford because you lose money (half the cost of the guitar) when you
upgrade and because bad guitars cause beginners to get discouraged.
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