Why Buy Your Guitar From FirstGuitar.com?

We have the experience to know the real needs of every player.

Over Twenty-Seven years of teaching experience has clearly proven that all new players learn faster and with greater ease on guitars that are properly fitted and adjusted to facilitate easy fingering. Properly adjusted guitars play better, sound better, tune better and are played more often.

What do we do that is so different?

We inspect every guitar for quality construction. There are many construction variables that affect the playing quality of every guitar such as the neck joint and it’s alignment to the body of the guitar and the bridge height, which tells us a lot about the guitar. These differences are not easy to see without the experience and tools necessary to make such judgments.

Next, every guitar that passes our inspection is carefully adjusted to the thousandths of an inch for easy playability. The result is a guitar that is easy to play, easy to tune and sounds great!

Why don’t other music retailers do the same thing?

If you search hard enough you will find there are several very fine musical instrument retailers that do inspect and adjust their guitars. However, inspections and adjustments are usually confined to high-end guitars well over one thousand dollars with a few from about five hundred dollars and up. Most new players are not prepared for that kind of initial investment.

There are several reasons why retailers do not inspect and adjust their entry and intermediate level guitars. One, there is no awareness of the needs of new players because the retailer is generally not a dedicated guitar teacher who is focused on the developmental needs of the player. Two, costs for adjustments would place prices above their competitors. Three, the so-called market research says prices need to be as low as possible to capture the entry and intermediate level guitar market, which perpetuates the myth that new players or parents will only spend as little as possible on a beginning guitar.

Our experience has been that new players and parents are more than willing to spend just a little more once they are understand the huge difference a properly adjusted guitar will make. A slightly less expensive guitar that is too hard or impossible to play may cause the player to give up the instrument or force them to buy a new one in order to continue. In the end, cutting corners like this proves to be overly expensive.

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