Cheap gypsy guitar...

nicolaimog

Hello....

I have just bought the book "Gypsy fire", and i really enjoy playing the examples and songs in the book. I am currently playing on my electric ibanez so..........
I dont have much money at the moment, so my price limit is about 1000$
So far I have been looking at Cordoba, dell'arte and Saga, but I dont know anything about these brands.
So what will you guys recommend for a gypsy newb?

Rich

The saga gitanes are by far the best budget selmer style guitars in my opinion.

Ken Bloom

Do spend the few extra dollars to have it setup properly. I can't emphasize enough how improtant that is. This is a demanding style of guitar playing. Better to remove major obstacles from the start. It will sound so much better.

nicolaimog

It looks like the only gitane guitars i can get where i live (Denmark, i will buy in Germany though) is the DG-250, 255, 310 and D-500. At the moment i am looking mostly at the D-500, it costs 486.55 euro here.

MichaelHorowitz

We ship to Europe all the time....

See: https://shoppingcart.djangobooks.com/ca ... -saga.html

nicolaimog

I know that you ship to Europe. The only problem is that 28% of the price will be added to the price when it gets to Denmark (due to stupid tax reasons). Therefore i would prefer to buy in a EU country.

nicolaimog

After some minutes of calculating, I have come to the conclusion that it is cheaper anyhow to by from you, so that is probably what i will do.

fretburner

I have 2 Gitanes, a 250-m and a d-500

Both were already setup when I got them. Lucky me.

But any Ive tried in a music store fresh off the truck have been setup really bad.

As far as the 250-m goes, a friend of mine who has owned 3 Shelly parks and a Favino prefers my 250-m over all of them (and he is an advanced player)

Makes me happy! he cant put my 250 down when we jam though so I had to get the 500!
8)