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Topic: Finger Picks at GC |
Russell Baker
From:
Owego NY, USA
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Posted 5 Feb 2016 12:34 pm |
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I find my self at the local Guitar Center.
I remembered that I needed some more
basic Dunlop .020 metal finger picks.
Nothing unusual or fancy.
I ask the young guy behind the counter where
the strings and picks are, what do you have in
metal finger picks?
He says we only have one type.
He hands be a packaged set picks.
(they are not marked what gauge)
I say as he hands it to me...
"This isn't good"
He cheerfully replies...
"Oh they are adjustable!"
I tell him that metal picks come in different gauges
and to skip it.
He has a look on his face like someone
just told him that the earth is not flat.
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R.E. Baker
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Bill Creller
From:
Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 5 Feb 2016 12:56 pm
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Maybe he knows more about mandolin picks !  |
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Joe Breeden
From:
Virginia, USA
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Posted 7 Feb 2016 9:58 am
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Maybe wrong store ?  |
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Rick Abbott
From:
Indiana, USA
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Posted 7 Feb 2016 6:41 pm
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I feel your pain.
Last year I went into a competitor of GC, (Sam Ash in Indianapolis) on a whim. There sat a late fifties, maybe 1960, Gibson D8 console in perfect condition. It was a rare model with Seth Lover designed humbuckers. I asked the young man if he had a bar I could use. He told me a bunch of stuff about how he had played it and how great the tone is. He couldn't tell me what tunings it was supposed to have (it was too far out to tell)and had no available tuner to tune a steel with. He gave me a tone dawg, and a flat pick. I told him the model, the wood, the pickups, the year, the probable tunings, the value. He acted like I was confused and he was going to help me buy it, because he knew how great it was. Not one word he said was informative, just BS sales gibberish.
I left feeling disrespected, and sorry for the young man who refused to learn a lot about the instrument he was commissioned to sell.
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RICK ABBOTT
Sho~Bud D-10 Professional #7962
Remington T-8, Sehy #112
1975 Peavey Pacer |
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Dustin Kleingartner
From:
Saint Paul MN, USA
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Posted 7 Feb 2016 7:41 pm
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probably dunlop 0.18's
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