Guitar Quality Debate

Discussions center on the importance of guitar materials like wood and craftsmanship versus player technique and tone, along with equipment snobbery, market decline, and comparisons to other instruments.

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TylerE Oct 10, 2022 View on HN

Lots of things to tune that aren't electric guitars ;)

CyberDildonics Jun 12, 2024 View on HN

Nothing wrong with it until it's time to make music and you need a normal guitar.

ajmurmann Jan 13, 2024 View on HN

It might be silly, but has the best guitars

hernan7 Aug 13, 2008 View on HN

He is right about playing guitar. Tone is in the fingers -- alas.

mcdevhammer Nov 22, 2016 View on HN

Please just no. Part of the charm of the guitar is that its this kind of organic piece of wood and metal that you have to learn to master to make sound good. A lot of the different character and style of different players comes from their different technique and how they learned to play which I think would be lost if you could just easily make perfect notes by basically pressing a button. I guess this is the same reason why I prefer listening to instruments like guitar, piano (real piano, not e

ushakov Dec 10, 2021 View on HN

except with guitars you can have both!

JoeAltmaier Feb 8, 2021 View on HN

Guitars are made of lots of woods - maybe this one would actually be better :)

rsj_hn Oct 28, 2021 View on HN

I've noticed this with musical instruments, and it sucks. This has been a chronic problem with Gibson guitars, but also even small scale luthiers are being hurt.https://www.guitarworld.com/features/adam-jones-i-told-gibso...

jonknee Nov 17, 2017 View on HN

A separate market that is taking market share from guitars...

steveeq1 Apr 15, 2019 View on HN

I've noticed this with guitar as well.