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| (Not mine, not mine to sell, no advertising intended - that is why this is not in the FS section)
With all due respect to the good people who toiled for this - doesn't it strike you as a BIT too much?!... Kinda like playing a Biedermeier table maybe?...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Blueberry-Special-Order-Baritone-Acoustic-G... |
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Location: Flahdaw | It cost Blueberry 270 extra man hours (total $32.77)for all that custom work. |
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Location: Jet City | It's kinda like the guy in the dragon suit on the Miller Lite commercials.
Bling is one thing, but those are just gawdy and the carvings seem pretty amateurish. I sure hope it didn't take those poor, starving, malnourished, barefoot factory workers 270 hours for that.
If you're going to do something like that, do it right. Somogyi can be a bit gawdy at times, but at least he spares no detail (and does it himself)...
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | and now blueberry has electric guitars in the $8000+ range!
Blueberry Electric |
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Location: Jet City | that reminds me of a coffee table my grandfather brought back from SE Asia when he was in the Navy. |
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| I only like plan jane guitars and then only if they sound good and are easy to play |
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Location: NJ | no love for booberries.
do a search and check out the video of the oppressed workers who work in huts on the floor on a blue tarp carving those things |
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| dunno about the workers, might be true, or it might be that they earn more than others doin the same things. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't dream of supporting forced or unpaid labour, I'm just saying that we can't know for sure.
My problem is with the DEMAND of such instruments.
Who is the cretin who'd want something like that? Just rhetorical. |
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Location: sitting at my computer | apparently the majority ("90%") of those "cretins" are american guitarists...
YouTube - The Origin of Blueberry Guitars |
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Location: Flahdaw | Originally posted by SOBeach:
("90%") of those "cretins" are american guitarists... Well that certainly explains it. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | I just wanted to say something positive about the "Berrys".
If they are still in bussiness than something must be going right.
It's good to have a lot of choices. |
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| I do not deny the craftmanship.
I certainly can not deny the sound qualities, having only played a Blueberry once.
I question the aesthetic taste. That's all :) ... |
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nuf-said. |
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Location: Suisun City, Ca | I kinda like the fret board... |
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playing a wardrobe?!