10% Student Discount for those actively taking Lessons

Whether you are an adult learning for yourself, or a parent encouraging a child to learn the guitar, we want to lend support so that you have the best opportunity to be successful as a musician!
Learning the method of the guitar has it’s challenges, but using a guitar that is “hard to play” is an obstacle that can be overcome with our services.

We know that often times with students money is already being invested in lessons or online products, and so the cost of a set up and new strings is just one more obstacle to overcome, that’s why Bandit Guitar Repair offers a 10% discount on Services Rendered to students who can provide proof of purchase of their investment into learning guitar.

It does not matter if the lessons are with an individual or a studio, private or group, or even from an on-line service dedicated to teaching beginners and intermediates. You may provide a receipt from a teacher or service from within the past 60 days to claim this discount!

Close-up of an electric guitar with a light blue body, a tortoiseshell pickguard, cream pickups, and control knobs.
Close-up view of an acoustic guitar's body, strings, and soundhole with a black pickguard.

DID YOU KNOW!?
New Guitars are rarely
setup and ready to play
when they come out of the box?

When a guitar company (be it Fender, Martin, Taylor, or Gibson, for instance), prepares a guitar to be sent to a retailer for customer purchase, they setup their guitars to the company specifics; however, those ‘specs’ are not necessarily ideal numbers for easy playing — they are more often ‘no buzz’ numbers. This is because of a few reasons:

1 - When a customer picks out a guitar at a store, no matter their skill level, they are looking to audition the guitar — How does it sound, how does it feel, etc. If the instrument has high strings, it may be considered hard to play, but the audition continues; but, if the strings are too low, then the audition is automatically over because “this one buzzes” and is deemed not playable.

2 - Alternatively, the manufacturer cannot guarantee that the climate differences between the factory and their retailers worldwide will not alter the string height in transit. So they leave the action high enough so that if there was a dip in the action height, hopefully it will not buzz.

Bonus Info

I believe it’s safe to say that 98% of retailers do not touch or manipulate a new guitar when it is received. Most all guitars are taken out of the box and hung on a wall, whether they are playable or not. You may have one of these situations! Please let us help your guitar become easier to play!