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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lydian" data-source="post: 569540" data-attributes="member: 8392"><p>[USER=9742]@cappers[/USER] </p><p>At your stage, a different neck is a complete waste of time and money. Differences are very subtle and completely lost on a new player like yourself. </p><p></p><p>The only time I was compelled to change necks was on a Yamaha whose stock neck was literally out of tune. But stock necks are usually perfectly fine most of the time.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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