(Sorry, that was me. Don't click >>Submit Message<< before writing the post.)

"If you se[e] a couple classical guitars of quality at a Sam Ash or Guitar Center, that's it."

Sorry, I can't agree with that. I'm familiar with the store that Don Firth and Molly are talking about, and the services they offer far exceed just the obtainability of quality classic guitars. A Guitar Center or a Guitars Etc., probably wouldn't even keep a concert Ramirez, Velasquez, or Kohno in stock, definitely not all three, and much less the couple dozen that the Rosewood Guitar keeps in their inventory. Most people who patronize a Guitar Center probably wouldn't even know what one of these instruments is. Someone who is in the market for a quality guitar like these wouldn't be looking for one in a Guitar Center anyway.

A serious buyer can come into the Rosewood Guitar and spend hours playing a variety of top quality classic guitars, any one of which he or she could walk out on the stage of a major concert hall with and feel well equipped, and then choose the one that they, for reasons of purely personal taste, really like the most.

And as has been mentioned, the services don't just end with selling guitars. Places like Sam Ash, a Guitar Center, or Guitars Etc., as big as they are (BECAUSE they are as big as they are), CAN'T offer the kind of service that a place like the Rosewood Guitar, or for that matter, Dusty Strings, can offer.

Berserker