In article <630e89d0.0312030547.446af96a@posting.google.com>, AsiaWanderer wrote:
> to answer my own email, here's what I found about buying a cheap, good
> guitar in Thailand:
>
> I got the Nancy Chandler map of Bangkok (available everywhere for
> about 160 baht), and found that there were guitar shops along atsadang
> street (very near khao san rd), and in a block of stores near the
> thieves market in chinatown. I went to both areas. About 15 guitar
> stores on Atsadang, selling low end guitars for very cheap prices
> ($6-$100), the most expensive being low end Yamahas. Most aren't very
> good guitars though. I was looking for one with a small body (for
> travel) that sounded fairly good, and didn't find anything. So, I went
> to Chinatown, but it was Sunday, and most of the shops were closed.
> The few I went into sold guitars at much higher prices than on
> Atsadang, about twice the price for identical guitars.
>
> There are other places to buy guitars in Bangkok, like the big dept
> stores, but they have mostly the same stuff you can buy on Atsadang
> for half the price. There's supposedly a shop near Soi Cowboy but the
> prices are comparable to the US. There doesn't seem to be much of a
> market for used instruments in Thailand, unlike the US.
>
> So...I went up to Chiang Mai (I had other business there too), bought
> the Nancy Chandler map for CM also, and went around looking at all the
> shops I saw on the map. CM is a more sophisticated musical place (many
> guitarists here), and the guitar shops show it--the instruments are
> usually in tune, and all sound much better than ones of similar price
> in Bangkok. I finally bought a "Dream" for $30 from a guitar shop on
> Loi Kroh Rd, which runs from the eastern canal/klong/moat of the old
> city to the night market area. The sound is very nice, the tuning
> heads are steel, and it feels solid but has a nice tone (at least for
> $30. My only gripe is that the strings are a little to close to one
> another.) The guitar store is down about 300 meters from the eastern
> canal on the right. It's by far the best store of the 6 that I looked
> at for quality and price. Again, buy the map to see the exact
> location, if you can't find it.
>
> I thought I'd post this info for the sake of others with similar
> questions.
>
>
>
> dblaisdenotmyrealemail@yahoo.com (AsiaWanderer) wrote in message news:<630e89d0.0311271017.2e1a58b9@posting.google.com>...
>> It's a big city, and not that many guitar shops. Where are they?
>>
>> thanks in advance
Mate
Did you happen to notice if they sold any decent ukeleles
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