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I am one of those lucky fools.

It is.

Your post is like complaining that a Lamborghini can't be purchased for the price of a Toyota. If all you can afford is the Toyota, then be content with the Toyota. Your local Guitar Center has plenty of Martins and Taylors available. If you want the elevated performance, then it comes with an elevated cost. Complaining about the cost just makes you look weak.

if you don't want to pay fair enough. how much would you pay for a lifetime worth of experience? $1000? don't think so. those guitars are masterpiece and deserve to be payed that much. when you'll acquire mr. somogyi expertise and craftsmanship you'll want people to pay for the amount of work and patience you have put into your work. or you can buy a cheaper guitar and stop whining just saying..

@@artist91fb well, 30k is the price of an collector's extravagant furniture , not an artist's instrument, unless we are talking about a rockstar.

​@@artist91fb I bought a hand made guitar for 4.5k a bit more than 10 years ago, it was my first and only major investment - and I don't plan to make another since I don't make a living out of playing guitar. It's extremely easy to play for me and, though it could stand to have a bit of a rounder tone, its tremendous volume of sound more than compensates. Why am I saying all of this, I hear you ask. To show you that spending 30k for any instrument is insane and does not enhance the musical experience of the player, exactly because instruments that sell at such prices are no better than others that may sell at 6k or 8k. The sound quality of an acoustic instrument can only get so good before the luthier simply can't do anything more but add ornaments to jack up the price. This does not negate the craftsmanship of the luthier, but it is silly to believe that a 30k instrument will, on average, play better than a 10k one.

Мариос Христодулу I am not saying that a 30k guitar necessarily plays better. But let’s make a thought exercise. If you were a professional luthier that has spent a whole life mastering the art of guitar making to the excellence. Would you like your experience to be paid as well? Or just the wood? I think that a 30k price is reflecting the life experience of Ervin and when you commit to it you are actually buying not an instrument, you are buying a person’s time. How much would you value your time? Not just the time you took for the build. The time you took to learn, to practice, to perfect a technique. That is what you are paying for. Experience Experience is priceless. Now there are many comments here saying that no many musicians have somogyi guitars. That is true. But also given that somogyi just built about 500 guitars in his lifetime is totally understandable why that is. I don’t think that those guitars are for people who make money with music, they wouldn’t be able to appreciate them, as for them the guitar is a mere tool, made to play and make money out. A cheap fender will do the trick. These instruments are made for people who appreciate time and patience of the maker, who appreciate every stroke on the strings. People who appreciate the sheer beauty and design of an instrument that has captured our fantasy and imagination for about 400 years. These are the people who will buy somogyi, matsuda, greenfield, kostal and so on.. we don’t want a guitar. We want an instrument that has beauty and meaning above all else

@@artist91fb So anybody that doesn't like to pour money down the drain or simply can't afford caring too much about aesthetics (segmented ornamentations and whatnot) is a sellout that should rather play a cheap strat? Geez, the level of elitism is beyond me. I don't think you understand what "making money with the guitar means". I'm talking those whose profession is to play classical guitar and thus need a top-notch instrument for recordings and concerts. Those people do not benefit by getting a ludicrusly expensive guitar like anything made by Somogyi; there nothing in the craft of making music that benefits from such expensive instruments which can't be achieved with more reasonably priced ones. Somogyi and other luthiers of similar status either exploit their (deservingly) houshold name to make more money or simply embellish the instruments with ornaments and that's why the resulting prices are off the charts. Good for them for doing that, but for us musicians is like having to choose between Apple and PC/Android; Apple clearly produces good products but also terribly overpriced, so I'd rather buy something way cheaper which does exactly the same things just as well.