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Hello. My name is Catfish. Thank you for visiting my page about Musiciansfriend.com. I have been playing guitar for DAMA since 1991. During that time, I have been fortunate enough to know about musicians friend magazine and more recently, www.musiciansfriend.com. I say fortunate because I have saved a lot of money from both using the service as well as using their pricing as a baramoter for the fair market value of an instrument.

When I first started working in music stores in 1990, the music retail industry was very different than it is today. Back then, I worked at Guitar Center San Diego. There were no price tags on any of the electric and acoustic guitars, bass guitars or amps and if you asked for a price you were lucky to get the list price. Unless you had a relationship with a sales person, 9 times out of 10, the only way you could tell what the real price of a guitar was, was to hand a salesperson a few hundred bucks and after a talk with the manager, they would decide how much more money to try and get from you.

LOL ! Those were funny days. Thankfully and to their credit, Guitar Center took a more customer service and big business retail approach to their business and 15 years later, buying a guitar is a much easier process (but still not that easy :) . But in those days, the best place to look to see what something would really cost was to look in the Musicians Friend mail order catalog. People that knew what was up, knew about Musicians Friend.

With the coming of age of the internet, MusiciansFriend.com was born and now all the great prices are right there online. Of coarse, Guitar Center being smart, has since bought them. But now more than ever, their pricing is a good indication of the national average pricing because of the amount of sales that they do. And the fact that they are tied to Guitar Center ensures that they can buy in BULK! So if your looking to buy a guitar, bass, amp or musical equipment of any kind, check out www.musiciansfriend.com . And when you purchase through our links, you help support the making of our next album. Thanks!

Catfish

PS. Also worked at Guitar Trader in San Diego for 4 years. They are also an excellent resource for musicians. For more information, visit my Guitar Trader page or visit Guitar Trader.com directly.

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