Whatever else Clean Syupper, you've shown us how we ought to respond when someone points out a mistake. It's very rarely done as honestly and graciously as you just did it!

And you are quite right to have the attitude that, if it doesn't work too well, maybe there's something simple you could do to make it sound better. Often enough that's quite right. Even if what you did wasn't strictly necessary, it sounds as if it worked out all right anyway.

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A mild protest at the assumoption that "What you pay is what you get" and the implication that cheap is nasty, pricey is good. Fortunately, there are plenty of excellent cheap instruments. (And there are probably expensive instruemnts which are pretty dodgy, but I don't have much experience at that end of things.)

If we spend a little time finding out what it is that does suit you, and take the care to check that what we are buying meets those requirements, and looking around at alternatives, there are plenty of excellent cheap instruments to be found. Particularly when it comes to guitars, and secondhand guitars at that.