Herb, I agree with you. There is a big difference between cheap and inexpensive guitars. One can buy very good inexpensive guitars from Rondo Music

http://www.rondomusic.com/ , Guitar Fetish http://www.guitarfetish.com/ and others.

During my years of teaching I saw a lot of cheap guitars from Walmart, K-Mart, etc. From those observations I would say about 20% of those guitars are playable right out of the box while the rest needed work, sometimes at a very high cost, to get it in playable condition. Even then they sounded very tinny.

Whenever I get something stuck in the back of my throat, I dislodge it by drinking a beer.
It's called the Heineken Maneuver.

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