I have been teaching contemporary guitar for a few years now but blimey I get some well dodgy geezers come along...
The latest scenario:
Girl in her 30s rings up:
* I Would like to learn guitar and come for a lesson but I have no guitar.
OK no probs - I can lend you one or two in the lesson and let you see what type feels best.
* I Studied Piano at University but fell off my motorbike and cannot now see all the keys.
...OK... well the guitar is more intimate and you 'feel' as much as look when playing...
*Can you send a map so that I can drive past where you are with my husband and 4 yr old so I know where you are before we make a booking...?
OK... but you are only 12 minutes away...
*But I get lost easily...
* OK - I know where you are now... when I come - can you park my car for me?
Sure... what do you drive..?
*2006 Toyota Celica T230
So, comes to lesson
* *Oh - I used to work at Andertons before my bike accident...
BUT - She has absolutely NO rhythm whatsoever... double jointed squishy fingers. God knows what type of piano she studied...!
AND AND AND - pulls my Gibson 335 to the ground when putting on her coat on to leave!!! (Heart attack ensued!)
Anyway - Punch Line - I mail her all sorts of links to help her decide on a guitar/setup and she goes shopping...
Get an email after she has been to shops - * I have decided the guitar isn't for me and am going to take up the drums instead!
WTF!!!
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.... I didn't know they were still making Toyota Celicas in 2006.
You have to humour the 90% so as to appear to the 10% that you are actually doing some business besides them, otherwise they might conclude they ought to be spending their money with someone more popular.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
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doesn't matter if she does - you can't buy that shit.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.