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Location: Boise, Idaho | Thanks, Schroeder. I remember that thread now. It was a couple days before I bought my Classic, so maybe it didn't sink in. Since I'll be in Italy next week, maybe I'll see if I can get some of the Gallis cheap. |
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| Cheap? Italy?
Good luck.
The best pizzas are in New York or London.
Most of the best Italian is somewhere else. Except the scenery.
Enjoy. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I was kidding. I'm not a world traveller, but I have learned that things are usually cheaper at home. Napa Valley wines were first. Cheaper here than at the wineries. Bought a golf club last summer from the distributer. Found out that it was cheaper to have it shipped here than to pay the 8.5% sales tax.
The best one is my sister-in-law who thinks everything European is better. She was in Italy and bought my brother a guitar. Assumed it was better than what she could buy here. It was the first Ibanez I had ever seen. Tag inside still said Made in Japan, just like they do here. |
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| "The best one is my sister-in-law who thinks everything European is better."
She might have a point.
I gotta go to bed. Give my regards to Broadway.
My guitar'd better turn up tomorrow.... |
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Location: Orange County, California | Mark,
Strings by mail
Has the Savarez, Galli and also the Hannabachs. These are all top quality Classical strings, but I really like the Savarez 520P1's. they are all wrapped E to e!! This place charges no tax out of state and flat rate shipping, so you could order a couple of different sets and decide for your self, which is exactly what I'm going to do with the EXP's (supposedly exaclty the same as Adamas strings) the Elixirs. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | I just put a good set of Martin mediums on my acoustic that didn't cost me a cent. They were given to me by my son who is over 40, and who I played in bands with for years.
If you want cheap, but good, strings, have four children before you are 25, fed and clothe them and send them to school, buy them cars and instruments and PA systems and mikes and get them gigs as teen agers and play with them in bands as they mature, all the time buying better and better instruments as you get better bands to play in. Flirt with poverty as the bands don't get paid like they should, and SOME DAY, SOME GREAT DAY, your son will walk in and hand you a set of Martin strings and tell you those rusty fence wires you have been babying for 5 years should be changed, if you are going to appear at the Bluegrass festival he is appearing at with his band that you no longer play with but will be asked to jam with if you just change those rusty strings, PLEASE DAD!!
Nothing like free strings. |
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| At the London Guitar Show last month my 9 year-old got given a set of Ernie Ball strings. He walked back to me holding them out. "Thanks", I said, taken aback by the kindness. "Can you put them on my guitar when we get home?" he said.
I guess I've got a few more years to wait for the free ones. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | schroeder
Your time will come and you will deserve your free strings, just make sure when he hands them to you that you say "Can you put them on my guitar when we get home?" |
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Location: Waxahachie, Tx | Bailey, I'll try to remember that,good advice. Might even be lyrics a song in their somewhere. |
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| Only if you're Alan Jackson. :p |
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Location: Texas | Bailey, a little quick math tells me that those "free" strings cost you about $287,000!!! :-) |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Well, hell, you only live once!!!! |
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