Ian916 wrote:boa tarde.
Did you get the LP from Brasil? - Was really unimpressed with the guitar shops in Recife when there last, my son ended up tuning everything in each shop, those where the strings were not so rusty anyway, and when the guy told us that Yamaha was a Brazilian brand we left that shop! We got an Ovation copy out there, really strange guitar , exact copy but a finger board that just soaks up the oil!
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No, I bought my Lester from Sam Ash NYC. I known a really cool guy named Gabriel there, he found the guitar for me and I order it.
I live in São Paulo, the largest city in Brazil. Here we really have good music shops, you can find or order almost anything you want or could find in the states basically. BUT there IS a problem. Price. Because of over taxation from our government is impossible to buy more expensive gear here in brazil. For example, last year I saw a Bonamassa Studio in a guitar shop here and it have a price tag of US$3000,00 on it. No kidding.
I've been to Recife, a touristic city, not really a good place to look for musical instruments, unless you're local. Even tough, it will shure be more expensive than São Paulo shops.
And of course, unprepared and scumbag sales guys. In São Paulo we only have the second type.
Yamaha does have some factories in Brazil, for motorcycles. Even tough, made in Brazil does not turn Yamaha a Brazilian company. The Japoneses would not like that.
Anyway, sorry for your bad experience in Recife. The city have some beatifull touristic places and beaches like Porto de Galinhas, that you probably went visiting. I hope that compensated everything else!
You mentioned a Ovation copy, what is the brand of the guitar?
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