Re: Pac Rim instruments vs American made instruments ??
Originally Posted by
Austin Bob
I dunno Ivan, there was a lot of junk musical instruments out there in the 70's trying to meet the demand from all the baby boomers wanna be rock stars like myself. Those old memories die hard, and I think that's why they are still prevalent from folks 45 and older.
The younger generations don't seem to have those collective memories, they grew up with electronics and shoes made all over the globe.
I understand what you are saying, but like today, those 70's instruments weren't all bad. For many years my main guitar was a Martin D28 lawsuit clone with the Tama emblem that had been hand built in what eventually became an Ibanez shop in Japan. The big "T" on the headstock confused the heck out of folks, who looked at the instrument and thought it was a Martin. After HEARING it, they were even more confused. I reluctantly parted with it a few years ago and was pleasantly surprised to be paid a bit more than 3x what I paid for it new. Some companies build to a price point, some build to a quality metric, some use both. The result has always been a wide range of instruments in both price and quality. Even here in the 1920s through the 1960s we had Gibsons, Martins, Guilds, Gretschs, Kays, Regals, Harmonies, and Silvertones, etc.
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