expired Posted by iconian | Staff • Apr 1, 2022
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expired Posted by iconian | Staff • Apr 1, 2022
Apr 1, 2022 8:55 PM
Fender FSR CC-60S Concert Acoustic Guitar (Natural)
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This is even true if you play acoustic nylon strings. The callousing would be much less acute with a lower gauge string and even less so with nylon strings. But a total beginner's fingertips would still get torn up and calloused even with nylon strings, let alone with any gauge of steel (bronze) string.
The other thing you may be referring to is the action: how far you have to press down on the string to fret it. For total beginners a higher action might feel like it causes more muscle strain in the hand to fret, but it's not as important as having good finger placement and hand position. The action on this guitar is perfectly in range of what is considered appropriate for a steel string guitar, low enough for fretting but not too low to hurt tone or cause strings to buzz against other frets.
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This is even true if you play acoustic nylon strings. The callousing would be much less acute with a lower gauge string and even less so with nylon strings. But a total beginner's fingertips would still get torn up and calloused even with nylon strings, let alone with any gauge of steel (bronze) string.
The other thing you may be referring to is the action: how far you have to press down on the string to fret it. For total beginners a higher action might feel like it causes more muscle strain in the hand to fret, but it's not as important as having good finger placement and hand position. The action on this guitar is perfectly in range of what is considered appropriate for a steel string guitar, low enough for fretting but not too low to hurt tone or cause strings to buzz against other frets.
This is even true if you play acoustic nylon strings. The callousing would be much less acute with a lower gauge string and even less so with nylon strings. But a total beginner's fingertips would still get torn up and calloused even with nylon strings, let alone with any gauge of steel (bronze) string.
The other thing you may be referring to is the action: how far you have to press down on the string to fret it. For total beginners a higher action might feel like it causes more muscle strain in the hand to fret, but it's not as important as having good finger placement and hand position. The action on this guitar is perfectly in range of what is considered appropriate for a steel string guitar, low enough for fretting but not too low to hurt tone or cause strings to buzz against other frets.
You aren't totally wrong though... Some guitars are easier and lower lighter gage strings can hurt a bit less.
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With the Fender, which is typical lousy junk from the Far East with terrible quality control, you might get one that's pretty good. And you might get one that sucks.
With the Yamaha, they also use factories in the Far East, BUT Yamaha installs their own people in the manufacturing process to ensure quality control.
The Yamaha is also just a better-sounding guitar overall.
So...Yamaha is far more likely to not have significant defects, and it will sound better.
If you luck out and get a good one, the Fender is worth about what they're charging, but it won't be as good.
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