Sunday, May 6, 2012

Sunday, May 06, 2012 - , No comments

Guitar Shopping

I had a lot of fun helping one of my adult students buy a guitar for her son.  I've never gone to a guitar store with Korean "backup" before.  On two occasions I've been told that I couldn't take a guitar down to play it; once with an Epiphone Les Paul (~500,000) and once with a Cort acoustic (~200,000).  Both times I thought I had stumbled onto the set of Spinal Tap.


Anyway, one place where you CAN try a guitar is 악기마트.  It translates, as you might imagine, into "Musical Instruments Mart".  It's located about a block south of the Choji-dong E-Mart.


It is a one man shop. The owner is a Lento Guitar dealer.  There were also some Ventures strat guitars, a couple of Schecters and LTDs.  He even had a pretty nice Epiphone Les Paul.


The quality of a beginner guitar has improved A LOT since I started playing.  The Ventures strat he played was very good quality.  The whole package, including a clip-on tuner and small amp, came to around $250. 



Location: South Korea, Gyeonggi-do, Ansan-si, Danwon-gu, Choji-dong, 745

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