Re:Introduction to Computer Music an Electronic Textbook
by ofalkaed on Friday August 01, 2025 @03:25PM
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Developing repair skills beyond those offered by most guitar shops is not a high bar considering most shops don't offer repair and just have a "tech" whose training stops at intonation and truss rod adjustment, the stuff required for basic setup. Personally, I think every guitarist should learn setup even if they plan on paying someone to do it, it is not difficult or time consuming to learn and if you can tune a guitar you can do a setup. I did not challenge anyone and to suggest I did is a misrepresentation, not an oversimplification.
>Your attitude toward playing seems like my attitude toward my profession, which I'm actually good at.
It is the attitude required to get good .
Here's my perspective. I have access to YouTube and I've tried to fix my Marauder. Two shops have tried, although one guy admitted he was working from YouTube. (I'm certain it's fixable. It's two pieces of wood with a bridge and a nut on it. The neck is straight enough to be very playable.) But I have a job and a family and I'm not luthier material. I finally gave up and bought an old Fender for too much money. $800 or something. I play it. It stays in tune.
I confess I have some brand-name vulnerability to Fender. "Classic" whatever whatever. I don't want an Ibanez, I want a Tele. I'm the kind of guy who would buy that yellowy "antique white" color if I could. So probably I could get a better guitar for the same money if I knew the less famous brands.
Plus the metalheads (or somebody) have run up the prices on Ibanez guitars.