Hi Jacky
Thanks for the advice - you're right, of course, if it feels that good, I
should buy it. However, I've just been to Wembley Guitar Centre, where it
turns out they have a good range of Martins, and the '15' range is all much
cheaper than Hobgoblin's. I'm not sure any of the Wembley guitars were quite
the dream to play that the Hobgoblin Martin was - I'm going to go there now to
have another go on it. But, knowing that Wembley will fit a Martin pick-up and
give me a hard case for about 120 quid less than Hobgoblin's price for the
guitar only, gives me some bargaining power!
Cheers!
Martin.
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Martin wrote:-
Probably the last time I posted was a year or so ago, when I was
considering
buying a new acoustic guitar and was wondering what people thought would
be
a good buy. I got a lot of good advice then, but in the end just had my
old
Aria overhauled, and a pick-up fitted.
Today I went into Hobgoblin Music in Rathbone Place, London and saw that
they had a guitar in there with my name on it (literally - It was a
Martin
D15). Well I had to pick it up, didn't I?
I have fallen in love.
A total dream to play. Beautifully stable when I fiddled with a couple of
tunings, and putting on the capo didn't pull it out of tune at all.
Gorgeous.
The question? - They are asking GBP845 for it. Is this a good price? (I
saw
on Martin Gtrs website they list at $979 in the US). They're holding it
for
me, but I want to be sure of the price before I go spending money that I
don't really have :0(
Martin.
NPIMH - The beginnings of a new song...
Hi Martin,
My view is that if you fall in love with an instrument you should try to buy
it if you can. However, I will say that I've been a regular visitor to
Hobgoblins over the last few years and, although I've bought a few instruments
from them, and sold one there, I think they have a nasty tendancy to overprice
and it's certainly worth searching around now you know what you want. I expect
you tried Ivor Mairants over the road?
Good luck
Jacky
