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Location: south east Michigan | I read that this morning and almost posted the link. But I figured it would be better if I got to work on time.
Girls with guitars.... nothing wrong with that.
Wasn't there a country song about that a few years ago?? |
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Location: NJ | I wish i was the marketing genius that came up with this.
gender specific instruments. what a crock of crap.
why girl guitars? because they will sell.
how about girl
drums
trumpet
violin
etc etc etc |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Somebody said the same thing in the article, except he was a little more polite. Maybe he was in marketing. |
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Location: NJ | smacks of SexualDiscrimination, t'me . . . . |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | ....and I suppose a kitty just won't get 'em into the car anymore either....
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Location: closely held secret | Genius, actually.
Once the MP's create a world of 'gender-specific' guitars, they'll be able to reissue the current guitars as 'trans-gender' models... |
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Location: GA USA | A girl at our church walked in one day with a bright pink Daisy Rock acoustic. We all loved it. Played pretty well too. |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | I think it's a great idea--most of you have no idea how heavy a Les Paul becomes when you're 5'5" and weigh about 120 pounds. The same for one of our own solid-body O basses (which I adored playing.) That's why my bass is a Steinberger--the weight differential really is important for this member of the female-folk. I might have started guitar a lot sooner if the Daisy options had been available 40 years or so ago; when my little cuties are bigger, Grandma will definitely be in the market for one (or two)....
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Location: NJ | karen
young boys also have the same size and hand restrictions of girls and there are not boy guitars.
sorry this is a subject that just turns my stomach |
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Location: Ballston Lake, N.Y. | Chrissie Hynde don't use no girl guitar! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I'm going to invent a doggie guitar. I'm trying to incorporate a tonge that slobbers all over there and a tail that wags. I just wanted you to know, so you don't try to steal my idea. |
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Location: NJ | Now, . . . THAT'S just "wrong" . . . . |
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Location: NJ | Speaking of "wrong" :
The DaisyRock Poster BoyToy |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Tools for the band covering old Archies, Banana Splits, and Hudson Brothers... |
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Location: big island | edited. never mind... |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | If the ultimate goal is to get future guitar players, does it really matter what color or brand grabs their attention when they are starting out? They're beginning! They're playing! And those who stick with it will eventually graduate to quality guitars like we have--and if I do my job right, hopefully my little cuties will grow into their grandma's guitars down the road, and the legacy will be passed down.
I certainly didn't start out on an Ovation--but I sure appreciated Gertrude when I had the chance to make her acquaintance.
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| You're very wrong al - sorry.
Take it from somebody with a very musically talented daughter, VERY tall for her age, that we bought her bass at the age of 13 not by sound, colour, brand or anything but by weight.
Anything that gets little kids able to pick up a guitar and actually be able to play it without damaging their backs for life is a GOOD THING.
And we won't even go near the difference of shape at the front which is a source of GREAT EMBARRASSMENT to girls of that age - it's no coincidence that those Daisy Rock guitars are small as well as light. That's why they sell. Not because they're pink.
And if you're right and I'm wrong, where are all those great girl guitar players from the 60s, 70s and 80s? Or was it a statistical blip that for 3 decades on a planet with 6 billion people not a single female guitar superstar appeared? They couldn't pick the f0000in' things up. It was only when Ibanez and Yamaha introduced their super-skinny bodied speed-machines that suddenly girls started really getting into it.
Very wrong al, very wrong. |
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Location: New South Wales, Australia | Like Al, I don't like the thought of gender specific guitars. People are people and guitars are guitars.
However, my 10 year old daughter has seen the Kitty guitars and wants one. So if this sparks an interest and will encourage her to play it's got to be a good thing.
Like Karen said, it's not like she's gonna play one of these for the rest of her life... but starting on one could well help her to become a lifelong guitar player. I reckon everyone on this planet should play guitar.
So rock on girls. :) :) |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by schroeder:
where are all those great girl guitar players from the 60s, 70s and 80s? Or was it a statistical blip that for 3 decades on a planet with 6 billion people not a single female guitar superstar appeared? Rickie Lee Jones, Emmylou Harris, Bonnie Raitt, Nancy Wilson, Janis Ian, Joan Armatrading, Joan Jett, Joni Mitchell, Tracy Chapman....
But I do agree with you about the guitars, they have their purpose. |
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| They are all three chord strummers (tho Joni's are a weird 3 chords). Bonnie Rait is a really good singer but she gets the nod on her guitar playing because she's a girl playing dirty blues slide guitar, not because she's a great slide player. I am a big Emmylou fan and a massive Tracy Chapman fan - but they ain't famous for their guitar playing (I nearly wrote "they ain't famous for their licks").
Let the girls rock!! |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I have little energy over the ergonomics and marketing of guitars on a gender basis...
they could make girl/boy pianos, cellos, basses, harmonicas, banjos, flutes, drumsticks....
I have no doubt that women would design any and/or all of these differently...
and many men would say... "how come I didn't think of that?!" |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Full scale guitars were too big for me when I started playing at about age 9. I don't remember the weight being a problem, but more the size of the frets for small hands, something I still suffer with. I guess I found relief in the fact that my "learning" guitar was a 1957 Gibson ES-125 3/4T borrowed for 8 years from a truck driving neighbor. It was light and the neck scale was small. I also recall that there were a lot of guitar playing women singing country western in the 1940s. Also, don't discount the impact and role of societal/cultural influence. In the 1960s, boys had a lot more role models playing guitars in the top 40 than girls, so it seems logical that more boys bought and played guitars than girls. On the other hand, there were many more girls enrolled in piano class than boys, and during all the years I took tap dancing lessons, the ratio was about 100 to 1 in favor of the girls, a ratio I eventually learned to appreciate. ;) |
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Guitars for girls a growing trend -- article
