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electric guitar help!!!!!!?

i need a decent guitar that is good for beginners but i can use when i become okay. it needs to hold its tune too. i have a Ibonez Gio and it wont hold the tune for ANYTHING. and i dont want to spend thousands of dollars. i know its picky but PLEASE help.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    for 200 you can go to target and buy a beginners guitar

  • 1 decade ago

    Instead of going out and buying a whole new guitar..

    Why don't you just buy better tuners for the guitar? Tuners range from 20~60 bucks and are a hell of a lot cheaper than a new guitar.

    Try something like Grover, Schaller, Gotoh, etc.

    If your really worried about losing tuning so much than try locking tuners. Slightly more expensive but hold tuning better.

    On another note.. If you have the GIO with the floating bridge. Don't use it.. they don't hold tunings and that would be your problem. Almost all guitar with this type of bridge (non locking and floating) don't hold tune.

  • 1 decade ago

    Do NOT go to Target! It may be that you have not installed your strings correctly. I am a professional guitarist and instructor and I can't tell you how many times I've seen guys trying to keep their guitar in tune but did not have them on right. i.e. not enough windings and failure to overlap the first winding and then underlap the rest. Go to youtube and type in restringing guitar or stringing guitar and watch. You might save yourself a lot of money. If you decide to buy a new one though, go to music123.com or musiciansfriend.com, buy yourself a Mexican Fender Strat. Be sure to check whether you have to pay shipping and or tax with each store to determine which will be cheaper.

    Hope this helps.

  • 1 decade ago

    I don't know if this is the kind of thing you're looking for, but if your guitar held it's tune when it was new, then I know how to fix it. You need to change the strings, each one. Often, the string wears out, and it gets out of tune very easily. I've changed my strings many times which helped a lot.

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  • 1 decade ago

    On this i can help you i have got my guitar from sams club for 200 dollers and i have had it for 4 years its turned out to be the best on i have ever got. It is just like the 3-4 thousand doller guitars hope this helps.

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