written by on 27/07/2011
After having the guitar for a few months it needs tuning practically every day and then eventually it wont tune. As soon as its in tune the strings snap and the restringing design is absoloutly terrible, you need to put your hand through the hole (wich has very little space for moving around) and then try and thread the string through to the top! Seriously dont get it!
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Guest's Comment
Written on: 11/11/2011
After a few months - you should have already changed your strings a few times.
Restringing a falcon is just the same as any other acoustic guitar. Even £3500 Martins.
Thesecondstain's Comment
Written on: 19/04/2012
Either you are buying cheap strings or you are doing something very wrong. I have a few guitars and one of these [actually a Montana Jag 6100 but it's the same guitar] to bash about with. I bought it secondhand for £20, cleaned it up, lowered the action, put some decent Elixir strings on it that came off my 1975 Epiphone FT-150 Bard [put La Bella Silk & Steels on that], and it plays really quite well. It's not loud and articulate like a Guild, but it cost pennies, and it's quite full bodied in its sound, if a wee bit muddled. As far as stringing the intrument, you don't put your hand into the soundhole [I suppose you could], but take a bridge pin out and pop the string in through the top, replacing the pin. Yes, some strings have big ends on them that necessitate going through the soundhole. Simply, don't buy them. Lastly, new strings go out of tune even on a good guitar. However, if you are stringing almost any guitar correctly it will not go out of tune badly by itself after the strings have settled in. Lots of things can affect strings staying in tune so don't blame the guitar just because it is cheap.