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Post by andyhowell on Apr 15, 2017 14:39:11 GMT
Popped into Denmark Street this morning and mainly spent my time in Wunjos — the first time I have been in there since they moved the store.
The hard sell was very prominent in this smaller acoustic space. They were happy to let me play guitars but it felt like every minute or two they were back to close a sale. Very off putting. By contract, Macari's down the street were far more laid back although their range seemed predominantly Martin.
Back at Wunjos I was struck again at how good the new Guild's are for the price — there's a lovely all mahogony M series which its great for ragtime and blues.
The guitar of the day was Lowden S model, spruce, rosewood with a cutaway. I almost always prefer these to the bigger O model. A very comfortable model which although short scale was fine in DADGAD. It had a very tight sound though and really had a lot of opening up to do.
Of course, the salesman was very taken with the grain on the back, almost more so than the sound!
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Post by vikingblues on Apr 16, 2017 6:30:45 GMT
The hard sell was very prominent in this smaller acoustic space. They were happy to let me play guitars but it felt like every minute or two they were back to close a sale. Very off putting. Very off putting! Pretty well an instant loss of a sale by a shop if I'm the customer I'm afraid due to the annoyance factor. You need to be able to focus on trying the instruments thoroughly and not get your train of thought distracted by inane drivel. Reminds me how much I appreciate Scayles technique of leaving me alone for at least half an hour to get on with it. Mark
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Post by andyhowell on Apr 16, 2017 7:25:53 GMT
Weirdly, after about 10 attempts to check how I was doing they told me they had a quiet room downstairs! Just as I was leaving!
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chris
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Post by chris on Apr 19, 2017 8:22:38 GMT
I strolled down there looking at guitars a few weeks ago. To call the whole place uninspiring would be an understatement.
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Post by andyhowell on Apr 19, 2017 17:25:56 GMT
Weirdly, after about 10 attempts to check how I was doing they told me they had a quiet room downstairs! Just as I was leaving! Quite.
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