We went into a music store and bought some violins for my kids (who both are taking violin lessons) while we were in Bangalore. I couldn't help but laugh when I saw the stack of fine quality GIVSON guitars. These definetly wern't like those "so close to the original that they end up getting sued" copies that the Japanese and Korean guitar factories produce. These were some pretty sad looking guitars. They were dirt cheap too. Were it not for the fact that they were too big I would have brought one back home to show my guitarist friends. Yep. You can't beat a good ol' Givson guitar.