Help for a beginner :)
Originally posted by: prototypedenNIS
When I first started in repair, one of my mentors told me "don't buy an instrument named after a bird or a deity." There was a bit of a trend with : Lark, Skylark, Parrot, Swallow, etc...
Maybe it's brands named after birds. There was old joke about "Capistrano beer...where the swallows come back..."
Frank Manola
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