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  • Waygook Lord

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Collapsible Guitar
« on: November 29, 2022, 01:35:28 pm »
Cool teaching tool! The neck is removable so it can be put into a bag and into a cupboard. Out of sight and out of the way. One in each travel school would be nice. But the price in Korea is so high, hugely inflated. Any leads for cheaper?

http://mitem.gmarket.co.kr/Item?goodscode=2410851232

http://mitem.gmarket.co.kr/Item?goodscode=2410848676


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Re: Collapsible Guitar
« Reply #1 on: November 29, 2022, 01:51:12 pm »
Just buy a real one from a teacher leaving Korea for 30k and keep it in the trunk of your car. When your kiddos misbehave, you can strum a chord or two and threaten them with a singing/dancing lesson! Works for me! :smiley:


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Re: Collapsible Guitar
« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2022, 10:46:07 pm »
Just buy a real one from a teacher leaving Korea for 30k and keep it in the trunk of your car. When your kiddos misbehave, you can strum a chord or two and threaten them with a singing/dancing lesson! Works for me! :smiley:
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You could be a musician
If you could make sounds loud or mellow
Get a second-hand guitar
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If you get in with the right bunch of fellows
People see you having fun
Just a-lying in the sun
Tell them that you like it this way
It's the work that we avoid
And we're all self-employed
We love to work at nothing all day
And we be

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  • Billy Herrington
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Re: Collapsible Guitar
« Reply #3 on: November 30, 2022, 08:43:53 am »
Just buy a real one from a teacher leaving Korea for 30k and keep it in the trunk of your car. When your kiddos misbehave, you can strum a chord or two and threaten them with a singing/dancing lesson! Works for me! :smiley:

Or bring it out at parties when you want to want everyone to leave.


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Re: Collapsible Guitar
« Reply #4 on: November 30, 2022, 08:52:26 am »
TODAY IS GONNA BE THE DAY THAT THEYRE GONNA THROW IT BACK TO YOU


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Re: Collapsible Guitar
« Reply #5 on: November 30, 2022, 09:27:57 am »
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Sources confirmed this Sunday morning that LSA sophomore Wyatt Hayworth, who has consistently brought his acoustic guitar to every party he’s attended for a full year in the hopes of ending his stubbornly persistent state of virginity, finally “got some” at a local house party this weekend.

“I figured, if Free Fallin’ doesn’t reel in the chicks, literally nothing else will,” stated Hayworth, who purchased his guitar a year ago along with a beginner’s song book entitled the Complete Works of John Mayer.

The party in question was a gathering of around fifteen people at an acquaintance’s home, and, although no one specifically asked Hayworth to bring his guitar, he figured the group of mostly strangers would love to listen to the three songs he knows how to play.

“My strategy is to wait about a half hour for the party to get going once I arrive,” Hayworth reported. “After everyone is sitting down having a nice conversation, I grab my guitar and casually join the circle. Then I just hold the guitar like I don’t even know how it got in my hands and wait for someone to comment on it. If no one does, I just start quietly playing the opening chords to Viva la Vida.”

Susan Alexander, a fellow sophomore and witness from the party commented on Hayworth’s strategy, saying, “Mary was finally opening up about her parent’s divorce and it was really emotional. Then all of a sudden this guy was playing a Coldplay song and no one could hear what she was saying. It was so sexy. I was like, **** off Mary, I can’t resist a man with the knowledge of three to four guitar chords.”

Before he uninvitedly brought his acoustic guitar along to the party, Hayworth apparently tried his luck ensnaring the females in a number of different ways, including loudly practicing Snow Patrol’s Chasing Cars with his shirt off in his dorm room with the door open.

“The only person that ever actually came in was a DPS officer,” Hayworth stated, “and he just busted me for my hookah. He didn’t even notice my One Republic poster or ask about my dream catcher collection. It was like, what’s the point?”

In addition to in his dorm room doused in Axe Body Spray, Hayworth has tried seducing the ladies by playing his guitar pensively under a tree in the diag, while riding his longboard, and on a street corner with a donation bin labelled “dare to dream.”

This reporter located Mary Cowen, LSA junior and the lucky female who responded to Hayworth’s acoustic guitar seduction techniques by going home with him this weekend.

“It was the hottest hook-up I’d ever had,” Cowen stated, “and we didn’t even have sex. He just listened to me talk about my parent’s divorce and then cried harder than me. He fell asleep on the floor spooning his guitar.”

In terms of the future of his musical career, Hayworth stated, “The songs I still want to learn are Wonderwall, Hotel California, and Hey There Delilah. You know, the classics.”


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Re: Collapsible Guitar
« Reply #6 on: November 30, 2022, 09:41:54 am »


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  • Waygook Lord

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Re: Collapsible Guitar
« Reply #7 on: November 30, 2022, 12:05:30 pm »
American price: 1.4k. Korean price: 3.9 mil.

American price: 630. Korean price: 1.76 mil.

That is a huge markup. More than doubling the price. And I’m not using the most extreme examples; I linked all those guitars on gmarket. (All two of them.)

https://www.amazon.com/Carbon-Collapsible-Acoustic-Travel-Guitar/dp/B01H444L72/
https://www.amazon.com/Collapsible-Travel-Classical-Acoustic-Electric/dp/B0858KKYSJ/
« Last Edit: November 30, 2022, 12:15:00 pm by L I »


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Re: Collapsible Guitar
« Reply #8 on: November 30, 2022, 12:27:51 pm »
This is the first time that I have seen a collapsible guitar.  How do they sound...Just like regulars?
And yes, the price hikes for some goods can be extreme in Korea. Good luck to the seller if someone is silly enough to buy a hugely marked-up product. Still not great if there's no choice if you really want something.

As an aside, I bought a collapsible mountain bike back in 2001. It didn't ride like a regular bike...it wobbled. That was the one I lost when drunk  ;D


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Re: Collapsible Guitar
« Reply #10 on: November 30, 2022, 12:50:36 pm »
Very nice! What a couple of talented, wholesome, young musicians. Yeah, the sound is great.... just like a regular. Cheers!


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Re: Collapsible Guitar
« Reply #11 on: November 30, 2022, 12:54:41 pm »
So if I start strumming and belting out my favorite Green Day ballad it will have the same room-clearing effect? Good to know.
« Last Edit: January 07, 2023, 12:10:14 am by Billy Herrington »


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  • Waygook Lord

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Re: Collapsible Guitar
« Reply #12 on: December 01, 2022, 01:53:42 am »
Why not build your own? It could be the start of a new career that helps you escape the dead-end of ELS teaching.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCVvoDAfzBg