Nintari
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The cheapest guitar I own is a twenty-year-old Washburn acoustic that I got new at a pawn shop those same, twenty years ago. It looks cheap, sounds cheap, has fire damage along the back (long story) and a puncture hole on the top (another long story). One of the pegs is busted and only stays put if you use glue and the high E string buzzes.
But I'll say this: the intonation is and has always been spot on. I can tune it down a whole or half step, drop D, standard... it doesn't matter. It just stays perfectly intonated (I think I just made that word up, but oh well).
Having said all that, I'm happy to finally be able to replace it with a quality acoustic guitar. Sometimes, even when something has a lot of sentimental value attached to it like that Washburn, a really cheap guitar can stunt your interest so much that you literally will stop playing. And that was the case with me.
But I'll say this: the intonation is and has always been spot on. I can tune it down a whole or half step, drop D, standard... it doesn't matter. It just stays perfectly intonated (I think I just made that word up, but oh well).
Having said all that, I'm happy to finally be able to replace it with a quality acoustic guitar. Sometimes, even when something has a lot of sentimental value attached to it like that Washburn, a really cheap guitar can stunt your interest so much that you literally will stop playing. And that was the case with me.