Monoprice Idyllwild Solid Spruce Top Steel String Acoustic Guitar w/ Bag & More
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Monoprice has Monoprice Idyllwild SGI41 Solid Spruce Top Steel String Natural Acoustic Guitar w/ Accessories & Gig Bag on sale for $59.99 when you apply promo code 40SALE in cart. Shipping is free.
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Product Details:
Full‑size dreadnought body
Solid spruce top
Complete accessory package:
Tuner
Extra Strings
Picks
Strap
Padded Gig Bag
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Idyllwild by Monoprice[monoprice.com] has SGI41 Spruce Top Steel String Natural Acoustic Guitar w/Accessories / Gig Bag for $59.99
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Model: Idyllwild by Monoprice Solid Spruce Top Steel Acoustic Guitar with Accessories and Gig Bag
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I've never played any of Monoprice's acoustics, but this is a pretty crazy price for a solid spruce top. Their Indio electric guitars are fantastic for the price, but acoustics are a different animal. I'd grab one of these in a heartbeat, but I need another guitar like I need a hole in the head. If I were a newbie looking to learn, I'd grab one of these and have a luthier set it up. That way you'll get a great playing guitar from the start, and they'll tell you if there are any issues with the guitar incase you'd need to exchange.
It's not a decade ago, a sub $150 guitar by some brands can have consistently good to excellent action. My sample of 3 Donner $100 guitars all have the action below 6/64. With actually great intonation and no dead notes to speak of. Do the tuners feel great? no. But they are 18:1 and they certainly hold tune for days as long as the strings are fully stretched and stress relieved.
Really the side wood is snobbery, it's not vibrating, and the back is barely involved in sound production. That's the physics. It's like people debating alder vs basswood on an electric guitar body.
Any acoustic guitar that is playable, and sounds good and has good intonation shouldn't be treated like disposable trash. Any guitars glue will fail, solid wood top will crack with that sort of abuse. Even if its a 60 dollars the spruce and mahogany trees still had to be cut down.
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02-16-2023 at 03:05 PM.
I've never played any of Monoprice's acoustics, but this is a pretty crazy price for a solid spruce top. Their Indio electric guitars are fantastic for the price, but acoustics are a different animal. I'd grab one of these in a heartbeat, but I need another guitar like I need a hole in the head. If I were a newbie looking to learn, I'd grab one of these and have a luthier set it up. That way you'll get a great playing guitar from the start, and they'll tell you if there are any issues with the guitar incase you'd need to exchange.
Thanks OP! Got one. Will be for my learning. Can someone recommend what strings to use on them so that they're easy to learn.
Cheap guitars are probably not ideal for learning on because they will likely have trouble staying in tune and the action is going to be high (greater string distance from fretboard) which makes it harder to play as well.
There doesn't seem to be any information anywhere about what the back and sides are. Solid spruce is a nice addition in this range, but it's concerning there's no info on the rest of the guitar (other than the neck is okume).
Cheap guitars are probably not ideal for learning on because they will likely have trouble staying in tune and the action is going to be high (greater string distance from fretboard) which makes it harder to play as well.
Yeah, I will always recommend an entry-level Yamaha acoustic.
I'm tempted to order this one out of morbid curiosity to see what it's like... but I don't think I will.
Ugh, even though I swear to myself to stop buying crap and only buy quality guitars from now on that sound good, I'm so tempted to get this and leave this in the trunk of my car. I'm definitely not leaving my Taylor in the trunk of my car but this might be good for spontaneous trips out of the city.
Cheap guitars are probably not ideal for learning on because they will likely have trouble staying in tune and the action is going to be high (greater string distance from fretboard) which makes it harder to play as well.
True, but considering the price and the solid spruce top I'd say that if you add the cost of a professional setup you'd be way ahead of the game.
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Really the side wood is snobbery, it's not vibrating, and the back is barely involved in sound production. That's the physics. It's like people debating alder vs basswood on an electric guitar body.
Any acoustic guitar that is playable, and sounds good and has good intonation shouldn't be treated like disposable trash. Any guitars glue will fail, solid wood top will crack with that sort of abuse. Even if its a 60 dollars the spruce and mahogany trees still had to be cut down.
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Get extra light strings whatever brand you get. Will be easier on the fingers
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I'm tempted to order this one out of morbid curiosity to see what it's like... but I don't think I will.
One review (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvFYWVM
bah, probably will just save the $60 for more strings instead.
True, but considering the price and the solid spruce top I'd say that if you add the cost of a professional setup you'd be way ahead of the game.