Originally Posted By: Guitarhacker
This was in the days before the vast majority of musicians tuned to A-440 so I was out of tune on quite a few songs. Maybe it was me because all I used to tune was a pitch pipe. Not the best or most accurate way to tune.


That was before (affordable) strobe and these almost throwaway contact tuners we all have now, I assume? My kid year bands had no piano, organ or keyboard player of an kind, and none of us with strings had a tuner, so one guy tuned and the rest just matched him. I had perfect or very close to perfect pitch so we were likely always within 25 cents of correct, but man, to think of the times now when stores often toss give you a $20 Snark when you buy a guitar.

Right now my local "son" store (mom died 2 years ago and dad last month, so the mom and pop part of it is over) has my Rokit 5 near field monitors on consignment and I wish he would sell them so I could put that money toward the Mini Martin he has in his store right now. Very nice guitar and I can probably get it for close to an even swap if I play him right.