I mean, how do you follow ‘an axe’ …also, who suggests an axe? Well, these gifts aren’t all for kids, some women and men may appreciate a good (ok, an average) axe…
Day 38 spots us dipping into the old ‘music’ category.
Guitar… maybe you’ll buy your kid one, maybe they’ll play it three times and get bored because they can’t make it sound like …well, anything good. Get your kid a second hand guitar, get them a guitar introduction course, make sure the teacher isn’t boring (but obvs is teaching more than the intro to Smoke on the Water!) …If you’re in Melbourne, take your kid to Music Swap Shop, wander around in there for a couple of hours, just get a look and feel for a few different guitars…
There are a whole range of crappy cheap guitars on Amazon and sure, with the right strings and ten minutes spent setting the guitar up, they might sound slightly better than a cat attacking a chalk board, they might even sound ‘Just fine’ - Have a look through here (Click) …but yeah, Music Swap Shop if you can.
https://www.musicswopshop.com.au/
Now, here’s a selection of photographs of guitarists I’ve taken over the years, how many can you name?
