Is the electric guitar on the outs?

[DonaldM]

According to this article electric guitar manufacturers are in deep weeds, and sales are way down. Thoughts?


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[YYR123]

Never happen....problem is they flooded the market with cheap guitars and now they are upside down in the supply and demand.

[Emcha_audio]

Ad don't forget second hand sales over ebay and the likes.

[Southsidemusic]

Dead link Donald.

[YYR123]

Originally Posted by Emcha_audio

Ad don't forget second hand sales over ebay and the likes.

That's true, I got my last two guitars from pawn shops.

A 2009 American Fender Strat with EMG pickups $800

A $1700 dollar guitar, beautiful I played it for about 4 years straight.....till I got the other one..

....my most recent a 2009 G&L ASAT Classic USA.

Another $1500 guitar and I paid $640 for it, they were both in stellar shape....

[JoelG]

Originally Posted by Southsidemusic

Dead link Donald.

This one should work: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graph...ectric-guitar/

Joel

[Drew Mazurek]

Maybe because it requires effort and practice? And most people seem to want to just click the mouse a bunch in some MIDI editor?

[DonaldM]

Sorry about the dead link. Thanks for fixing it!


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[DonaldM]

I wonder too if the decreasing population of teens has to do with it. There's just fewer 15-20 year olds now than 20 years ago. And that's the time when many got their 1st guitar.


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[musicman691]

Originally Posted by Drew Mazurek

Maybe because it requires effort and practice? And most people seem to want to just click the mouse a bunch in some MIDI editor?

You hit the nail on the head. Kids today don't want to put in the hard work necessary to learn anything really. The only time I use a guitar vi is if I need a 12 string sound - of all the guitars I have I don't have one of those. Other than that - pull out a real one and pick away.