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BS: New Diet for Guitarists

24 Nov 03 - 12:03 PM (#1059948)
Subject: BS: New Diet for Guitarists
From: Lanfranc

I feel I must share with you all a new concept in dieting.

It is the Chet Atkins Diet - you spend so much money on guitars that you cannot afford to eat!

Here is your first Diet Sheet Month One

Alan


24 Nov 03 - 12:12 PM (#1059953)
Subject: RE: BS: New Diet for Guitarists
From: Seaking

I feel hungry just looking at it. Does the price include a spare set of strings and a thumbpick ?


24 Nov 03 - 12:23 PM (#1059959)
Subject: RE: BS: New Diet for Guitarists
From: Beverley Barton

seems reasonable. do they do a nylon string version?


24 Nov 03 - 01:38 PM (#1060003)
Subject: RE: BS: New Diet for Guitarists
From: Willie-O

Ah... Martin's last word in the line of Guitars For People With More Money Than Savvy. I think the economic theory is, Martin looked at what their most collectible instruments sell for, and compared that to the relatively puny amount that CF Martin & Co made from the same Guitars, and is taking a run at getting the "collectible" price right out of the shop. They probably won't appreciate, but who cares?   

I like koa-bodied guitars but for fifty grand U.S. I'd have expected Brazilian rosewood...

Give me a Graf. He builds 'em to play and hear.

W-O


24 Nov 03 - 01:47 PM (#1060010)
Subject: RE: BS: New Diet for Guitarists
From: Rapparee

Secret Santa...oh, SS....


24 Nov 03 - 01:59 PM (#1060017)
Subject: RE: BS: New Diet for Guitarists
From: McGrath of Harlow

You'd be too sacred to play it. Definitely not a fun instrument.


24 Nov 03 - 02:35 PM (#1060032)
Subject: RE: BS: New Diet for Guitarists
From: Rapparee

Me? Sacred? Il est a rire!


24 Nov 03 - 03:02 PM (#1060039)
Subject: RE: BS: New Diet for Guitarists
From: Bobert

Just another purdy face as far as I see it... I'll put my '64 D-18 up against it any day of the week... Heck, I'll even spot it a *G* chord!

Bobert


24 Nov 03 - 03:14 PM (#1060041)
Subject: RE: BS: New Diet for Guitarists
From: Amos

Yeah, but a truly pretty face. One I would never spit on.

Rapire, you mean c'est a rire, but I suggest you never under-estimate your own sacredness. :>)

Not to take anything too seriously, you understand, but you might be surprised. I expect to be. Hope springs eternal;....


A


24 Nov 03 - 07:09 PM (#1060184)
Subject: RE: BS: New Diet for Guitarists
From: Lanfranc

Kevin, I like the idea of an ambrosial guitar, only to be played by the sacred but starving!

But a low-calorie Graf at a tenth of the price does have an appeal, though I've never heard one.

To help you achieve your ideal GMI (Guitar to Mass Index), here is another site that may help Fine Guitar Consultants

Alan


25 Nov 03 - 06:22 AM (#1060467)
Subject: RE: BS: New Diet for Guitarists
From: Dave Bryant

Allan - does that mean that we're going to see "less" of you in future ?


25 Nov 03 - 07:10 AM (#1060487)
Subject: RE: BS: New Diet for Guitarists
From: Lanfranc

With the assistance of my new 000C-16GTE and the insistence of my GP, consultant and personal trainer (sic!), on present predictions I should disappear altogether sometime in August 2005!

Alan


25 Nov 03 - 08:48 AM (#1060528)
Subject: RE: BS: New Diet for Guitarists
From: Mooh

Sure. Think I'll sell the house to raise the capital.

Nice guitar, but that much cash would buy several handmades of choice with enough left over to buy a new truck to hawl 'em with.

I can dream though.

Peace, Mooh.