Acoustic Guitar $59.99, Violin $99, Brass $149, Electronic Drum Kit $269 + More @ ALDI (Starts 7/2)
Acoustic Guitar $59.99, Violin $99, Brass $149, Electronic Drum Kit $269 + More @ ALDI
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You. I like you.
What you said but instead of Gibson, Violin.
Your wife has a Gibson acoustic? Nice!
I like how you think ozbargainer! The question is will she notice the difference
I was thinking how many more negatives you can throw into your statement whilst still getting your message out there?
I have 2 Gibsons, a fender and a Marshall stack I don't use. It keeps me from accepting the fact that I'm getting old and doing the band thing again is getting less likely by the second.
Anyway, if you're thinking of getting into playing and want to see if you'll like it, at least get something playable or you'll hate it from day one.
@imurgod - I completely agree - you should invest in a decent instrument to start with. It doesn't have to be a Fender or Gibson, just something decent and playable. Best to buy your first guitar with someone who already plays, who can tell you whether it is nice to play.
As for your gear that is just sitting there - get out and play! The stage does not discriminate on age.
@AlanHB
Mate,thats very kind of you.
Great advice re taking a guitarist along to find your first axe…. I remember falling in love with that Goldtop LP and seeing the price tag broke my young heart but made me determined to get an LP.
I've kept the gear for my kids. I would've been so grateful for good gear when I started. I went through so much junk before getting what I wanted.
I still play here and there, but not on stage anymore. Funnily, I can't imagine there's much of a market for fat, balding, middle aged men! Lol.
I have great memories of some crazy, crazy nights and interesting people / situations and I'm cool with that. I'd be happy to get my chops back up if I ever get the time.
I wonder how worse the no sound will be using the Aldi guitar. The quality difference in that no noise could be a dealbreaker.
I'll give you $59.99 for it.
Thanks, I've been meaning to pick up a Violin with my milk & bread for a while now.
Warburtons medium sliced white bread contains 0.8% fat per serving
And how much fat does violin have?
Even less, and it does clean your tract much better. However, the taste is quite dreadnought…
Does it also have 0.8% per loaf?
Surprised to see a budget guitar made from alder usually made from basswood at this price. The blue Telecaster style would be my pick, looks the same shape as a Fender while the black Stratocaster copy looks nothing like a Stratocaster. Being a hardtail it would also stay in tune better than the Strat copy with cheap tremolo.
I don't know… quality for all Aldi instruments are pretty bad. That said, I bought a $100 Suzuki Telecaster copy a few years back and it sounded alright. Had to sand down the neck a bit though.
Probably right about the quality, this https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/EKO-S-300-Sunburst-Electric-guit… would most likey be a better buy for $100, I think it is what they use in Secondary schools as part of their music programs.
Not probably… Every time I've seen acoustic steel or nylon string guitars in Aldi I've looked closely at them - and they're JUNK. They are the quickest way to discourage someone from learning an instrument. Mind you with the absolute garbage that passes for 'music' that may well be a blessing.
Review plus stones riffs Doesn't seem too bad, perhaps they improved a bit? Also have a Diy $28 cigar box guitar pack that's meant to be decent
If they had a Left handed version I would buy it for $99, been wanting to get a cheap Tele with maple neck, would just change the electronics and bridge.
Ple post link to ciggie-box. I turned a mini-guitar (scale 17") into a resonator using kitchenware fittings.
Ok I guess this is what it looks like. Link Sold out in my area, might try to make one and then an electric koto/shamisen. Ask Aldi for "cigar box guitar" stock very limited.
I've been playing the blue Tele-style Aldi guitar at church every now and then for a year, and it's gone down a treat. Obviously it's not on the same level as my Gretsch, but it's got a beautiful fast neck, the action was a great height out of the box… not bad for $80! I'm genuinely planning on swapping out the electrics for something a bit more high-end, since it doesn't have the clearest clean tone in the world, and I'm tempted to change out the switch for something less bulky, but apart from that I love the whole setup.
Thanks for the feedback, was wondering about the quality of the neck as that is what makes or breaks a guitar for me.
The black one is styled as an Ibanez lookalike, not a Fender/Squier Strat clone. The blue Huxley ETL100 is pretty much a Squier Affinity Tele clone, of similar quality but even better finished, for a LOT less. I bought one. Some lovin' setup OOTB and it plays, feels and sounds every bit as good as a Squier Affinity Tele. Put $10 of the $250 still in your pocket towards a set of D'Adarrio EXLs or Ernie Ball Slinkies to improve feel and tone even more, and the rest into a comprehensively featured modelling amp. Just a great value Affinity Tele clone, beater, learner or chopper project guitar. I love Aldi.
So wish they had lefty version :(
I read later in another of your posts that you are a lefty. My wife is a lefty, so I empathise with your disappointment. Numbers are always against you guys when it comes to anything but the popular models or colour selection, except for the billionaires unless you can afford full custom.
I have nfi about electronic drum kits, but that looks interesting.
I dunno - they're not even hexagonal…
I bought the drum kit a few years ago.. wouldn't buy it again.
As someone learning the drums, it was a waste of money. more of a toy tbh
Is that guy playing country or rock?
hillbilly.
Anyone know if the keyboard has a USB port or MIDI ports? Want to give it a go with Synthesia
I would also really like to know this.
It's on their website now and states that it has "USB and SD card input" - not sure if that implies USB Midi though…
https://www.aldi.com.au/en/special-buys/special-buys-wed-7-f…
Went and checked it out during the lunch break and it looks like the keyboard only supports USB in, with the only output being a 3.5mm headphone jack. I didn’t buy one as I don’t want to lug around a big box on public transport in 36 degree weather.
The brand is Huxley and the model number is KB-668. I can’t find any info online about it.
Apparently the violin is a Violin Shaped Object.. has anyone had any personal experience with it?
See my comment below about the one from years ago.
Any deals with the glockenspiel??
sweet - a chance to prove that my air-drumming is better than actual drumming.
be better off buying something from Artist Guitars if you wanted something on the cheaper spectrum.
I bought the Huxley black concert cutaway acoustic too this Special Buys time around. The Huxley comes with enough in the box for a n00b to kick off with, picks, spare B&E strings, strap, and a sub to some online lessons. OOTB the action was high, but a truss rod adjustment sorted that. Neck is modern section and easy to fret once the action is adjusted. Tone sounds just fine to my ears, a bright very Ibanez or Cort acoustic sound. The "Techwood" bridge & fingerboard look and feel just like Rosewood. Quality and finish is impressive. Compared with my everyday goto acoustic, a Yamaha APX600, the Huxley is quite respectable, playable and far FAR better than you'd expect any guitar priced at just $59 to be.
Gonna pick up an electric guitar and learn to shred it,
because playing guitar can get you all the chicks right?
No? <sob>You're about 4 decades late.
Rubbish! Chicks dig guitarists.
They dig pianists
calmly puts on sunglasses
The $149 options are a trumpet, a flute, and a clarinet. The trumpet is the only brass, the other two are woodwind.
No left handed :( I'm left handed and looking to learn guitar on a full size steel string acoustic from scratch. Any recommendations? I'm in Canberra.
If you’re learning from scratch, just play right handed.
This is good advise. If you've never played before just learn right handed. Makes things so much easier.
Great advice. I just recently watched Jim Kwik's video where he recommends using the opposite hand to brush your teeth to increase brain performance. Let us know how you go. Too late for me for guitars though.
I'm a lefty and tried starting right handed, but it just felt awkward and the coordination between strumming and fingering on the fretboard was way more difficult. I tried for a while as I could borrow right-handed guitars from friends but ended up restringing a right handed guitar that was given to me to left handed, I then found it much easier to start learning properly.
Bought and had to return the violin they offered years ago (I think it was $199). The bridge wasn't even attached to the violin. It just sat on top? Violins aren't my thing but I suspect you'd be better off cutting one out of cardboard than buying this.
The tele clone MIGHT be okay. Their strats were okayish a few years back. The semi-accoustics were too. I still own them.
No doubt the violin was probably shoddy quality, but some stringed instruments have "floating bridges", so that the bridge isnt attached to the instrument, and just held on with string tension.
A lot of archtop guitars will have a floating bridge too!
But how many look like someone whittled a salada biscuit and called it a bridge? I couldn't get the bridge to stay in place.
I've stuck with various semi-acoustic guitars and electrics, and never had nor want a floating bridge.
As a former cellist/double-bass player (I now play electric bass and guitar) I can confirm that bridges on violin family instruments "float": they are held in place by the pressure of the strings alone.
They are a right bastard to get in the right spot at the right angle, and have to be held in place by hand until you get the string tension high and balanced enough to maintain the position.
They also sometimes suddenly leap out from under the strings if the angle is not set 'just so'.This is what you get if you play an instrument that has barely changed in several hundred years.
Also, the bridges on ALL violins feel like a salada - even the good ones.
@syousef: I wouldn't go that far - bridges on these instruments often buckle over time so they are close to being consumables.
(Yes I know yours was a humorous response but it could be interpreted seriously!)
I would hope the smiley gave it away but I have no problem with you making it explicit.
The question really is is it good enough for someone to even learn the very basics on, and then move to a properly constructed one.
No. That is naturally the first thought. But a poor guitar discourages learning, without the player (or the gifter) even realising why. And Aldi guitars are some of the poorest quality I've seen. The cheapest Yamaha Gigmaster (if talking acoustic) is easily several times the quality.
ozbargain band?
cheapest tix ever, we pay you to watch!!!
This is amazing.
If you start singing the Coles down down song, I'm outta here!
Afternoon delight add song.
the sadist in me wants to get the violin
Sadist turned violinist?
Totally keen for that Tele. I've been looking for something to light on fire ever since I lost my Hannah Montana short-scale Tele. Best $20 I ever spent.
Might need to replace my Casio light up keyboard with this Aldi one. Dropped it once accidentally (not even hard) and it's now refusing to turn on.
I just notice the Telecaster clone has a traditional bridge. I avoid those because they're a pain to intonate and you can only get close without modifying the bridge or saddles - reason being each saddle is attached to 2 strings…so you can either get one string or the other perfectly in tune, or otherwise compromise on both. Much better off with a Squire tele with a modern bridge where each saddle only adjusts one string. But more expensive. Someone mentioned Artist guitars. Go the Stratocaster not the Tele because their Teles have the same traditional bridge.
Imperfect intonation drives me nuts - I figure my playing sucks and I can use all the help I can get. Others just live with it. So people modify or replace the saddles with something set at an angle - but that isn't perfect because different strings intonate slightly differently.
I had no issue intonating my Huxley Tele with its bridge saddle config. In fact, I prefer it to the Affinity's for tone and ease of adjustment. Appreciate YMMV. If it bothers that much though, just buy an Affinity bridge from AliExpress for $16 and swap it out. While you're at it, buy and fit a DiMarzio "Twang King" PUP set for killer tones with all that change still left in your pocket, a heck of a lot cheaper than than forking out a whopping $250 premium for a Squier Affinity.
If you think you can intonate 6 strings on a traditional bridge, I have to wonder if you're doing it with any degree of accuracy. As for swapping bridges in and out, that only works if the routing is the same and becomes a mess if even possible if you have to do it yourself.
I grabbed the Tele as a project guitar. I've just picked up a set of compensated saddles from the link below to help with intonation, but honestly, it's not too bad after adjustment for my ears with the basic saddles. You're probably cursed with a good ear ;)
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/A-SET-OF-THREE-WILKINSON-COM…
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I'm just cursed with lousy playing. I can use every bit of help I can get. Playing an out of tune guitar drives me nuts. I can tell the difference between perfectly intonated and slightly out even though no way can I intonate by ear. It just sounds "sweeter".
Are you sure the gear snob in you isn't gaining more enjoyment from that feeling of superiority in being so pretentious than actually playing the instrument syousef?
The 2018 Aldi Teles's contemporary flat bridge comes fitted with compensated vintage style saddles OOTB. If you pay attention, you'll note they are different from the original brass design, and not just because they are shiny. Improved intonation accuracy without losing that vintage vibe Tele tone. They've made that decision intentionally.
"Mess" to do the job oneself? That's just too funny. Swapping out one Tele bridge for t'other ain't neurosurgery or akin rebuilding the space shuttle.
In the end, it's essentially a rebranded Chinese Squier Affinity Tele fitted with a contemporary engineered vintage saddle bridge. Do you not like the Vintage Tele vibe? Then why are you even here slagging off an Aldi guitar you wouldn't ever own or use?
As for intonation of vintage bridge Teles, there you go. Always happy to help. https://hazeguitars.com/blog/setting-intonation-on-a-tele. Mine sounds just fine to my ear, and that's all that matters in the end.
What is with the Ozbargain agro? Dude I buy strat clones and fix them up for fun so calling me a gear snob is a joke. I don't have the woodworking skills to re-route a bridge cutout and I don't like messy holes in the front of my instrument. 6 strings and 6 saddles gives no fuss perfect intonation.
@syousef:
Agro? :) Just sayin' truths. You're the one on here slagging off a perfectly good Aldi guitar - which is a Squier Affinity in all but name, because it has a style of bridge millions over the world have no pragmatic problem with that your pedanticism doesn't approve of. NVM. We'll just enjoy our vintage imperfect song catalogue while you keep perfect misery company.Your version of the "truth" is to abuse someone you disagree with. That isn't truth. Truth doesn't begin with making assumptions and calling someone a "gear snob", "misery loves company" etc. Truth begins with intelligent inquiry. That is just the first step. There was none. That's not truth, it's trolling.
Just give up and stop being a hypocrite as well as precious. You stated that haven't got an Aldi guitar, and paraphrased swear disparagingly you'd never own one actually experiencing from a first hand perspective nothing about them. You remind me of the typical book read academic who can't do, but 'knows' all. Best clarify for you that that's not "abuse", just life experience based observation.
Apparently any and everyone who's ever played a Tele before they were fitted with six string saddles is inferred unworthily inferior according to your perfectionist self-dictum. o.O
I have a longer reply for you, but I'm going to wait 13 days to post it. Let me just set a reminder.
In the meanwhile I'm going to laugh at you because you have no idea how many cheap guitars I have fixed up which makes your rant about me being an academic ridiculous.
https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/How_to_Intonate_a_Thr…
"Project overview. With its cool custom paint job, this 1962 reissue looks sharp. But by today’s standards, a Tele is simply not gig-worthy if you can’t intonate it.""by today’s standards, a Tele is simply not gig-worthy if you can’t intonate it".
It's this kind of statement, coming from someone who by self-admission is "cursed with lousy playing" - N.B. there's conundrum in there if you look introspectively, from someone who self-proclaimingly paradoxically states, "Truth begins with intelligent inquiry" whilst illogically deferring the blame for the lack of applied disciplined practice over time which accomplishes competent playing …upon the mysteries of the aether which destroys the very credibility you seek to establish with your endless archive of regurgitated straw arguments.
I'll take Gerry Haze's opine over yours if you don't mind, and even if you do. Posted that link here previously. Evidently you chose to ignore what you don't wish to hear. At least you're consistent.
A. If to replicate the three brass saddle vintage Tele sound and tone is the goal even in 2018, that's today, which is the better way to replicate it?
B. If not, the solution is simple as iterated previously. Inexpensively replace it with a 6 saddle bridge. But you prefer to make a mountain out of a molehill in order to try and win an unwinnable argument because it's yours, or because you're just not the practical hands on type you self proclaim you are? : )
C: If all else fails, just accept and enjoy it for what it is. As iterated previously, with the contemporary designed compensated 3 saddle flat bridge plate it comes fitted with default OOTB, intonation hasn't presented a practical problem for moi suggestive others' not blessed with either you perfect hearing or lousy playing might find it acceptable too in preference to forking out AUD$350 on a Squier Affinity just for a six saddle replacement bridge I can buy for $6 and fit with a screwdriver! o.OYou seem to be mistaking me with the author of the article I linked. If you can't even be bothered to read what I wrote, don't comment, lest you end up with egg on your face.
You can take the opinion of a zoo monkey for all I care. I didn't tell you that you must use your guitars in a particular way or hold a particular view. That's your sabre to rattle. I gave my opinion. You don't like it. You made that perfectly clear. That's fine. Move on. Don't expect me to suddenly agree with you, especially when you present that in an abusive and derisive style. There is no need to be an aggressive angry little man about it (after a 2 week hiatus no less). Go play your guitar and relax for pity sake.
Inferring Gerry Haze's opinion is akin to that of a "zoo monkey"? LOL. Yer OK. As if any cred you were seeking to establish wasn't already shot to pieces by flying through the FLAK of your prior iterated nonsenses, you've excelled yourself this time.
"I didn't tell you that you must use your guitars in a particular way"
Oh yes you did. That's precisely what you were dictating and the raison d'etre for my initial inoffensive factual and helpfully suggestive response directed to you. Your initial post was a didactic disparagement of the Aldi Tele based upon the sole premise of its vintage saddle design, which has the potential to be an intonation challenge requiring compromise if ipso facto doesn't necessarily always, offending your peculiarly perfect ear in 2018. Apparently what my factual rebuttal did strike was the "I can't stand anything I say to be criticised" # note on your emotional 'stave'.
"Go play your guitar and relax for pity sake".
Pot, kettle, black. Better you heed self-advice than offer it in future methinks. Ciao baby.
You really do have a problem with comprehension. I didn't say Gerry Haze's opinion equals that of a zoo monkey. I said you can take whatever opinion you like, even that of a zoo monkey. I never claimed to have a perfect ear either. In fact quite the opposite. (My exact words, before your first response: "I'm just cursed with lousy playing.") Which you acknowledged earlier. And I've freely admitted to other limitations, like poor woodworking skills. You are clearly trolling.
And no I didn't tell you personally what to do with your guitar, although you've just become irritating enough that I'm certainly tempted to. You can do the same with the phrases "didactic disparagement" and "ipso facto" too. If you want to talk about the pot calling the kettle black, let's talk about calling me "pretentious" and then using those 2 phrases in informal conversation on a message board. "Ipso facto" you are being a massive hypocrite.
Do excuse me for speaking with a modicum of erudition afforded by literacy which pathetically offends either your Millennial sensitivity or moronic mindset. You choose. Although in truth and my experience, the two are seldom mutually exclusive.
"The guitar is an imperfect instrument" - much like yourself. Until you realise that, perhaps best you find another hobby.
No troll. You just can't keep your mouth shut even when your foot's firmly planted in it.
If you don't like the bridgeplate fitted to the Aldi TL because of its three saddle arrangement, then don't buy it, nor a Harley Benton which thousands are delighted with, nor a genuine vintage Tele. Your loss Peter Perfect.
The issue here is your own silly condescension with spiteful intent in response to my initial straightforward true but nevertheless helpful response to your nonsense. Apparently the clauses the cause of such grievous offence to your fragile ego were; that 1. "I didn't have any issue intonating mine with that Aldi saddle" which unlike your own opine, was spoken from the personal hands on experience with the specific unit, 2. "Appreciate YMMV" and 3. "If it bothers that much though, just buy an Affinity bridge from AliExpress for $16 and swap it out". Which of those doesn't = true, unless you are inferring me a liar with regards the first?
As for your petulantly trite or silly remarks re 3, I'm undecided which, no need to even repaint the body nor any need for routing modification for fitting with a standard bridgeplate and the same PUP. Using a drill or a screwdriver. Which of those presents a technical challenge?
Swap out, swap in. Drill the three NEW holes at their different spacing clear of the four in situ, plus two NEW additional at the top of the plate. For the six saddle plate the replacement bridgeplate will cover the original four holes. You can dowl those holes or leave them. Makes no difference to tone in a solid body, nor structural integrity in this case. Too practical and imperfect for you? Take it you've never looked around your perfectly functional home at how pretty much everything looks behind their decorative fascia when what passes for a tradie in this epoch does electrical, plumbing, air con, HT/Network/Hi_Fi cable routing and other work?
However, as originally iterated, IME no need if like millions of other guitarists worldwide over the past nearly seven decades, one can manage to find enjoyment content with the intonation possible of the three saddle style bridge.
Read about the 1st 2 paragraphs. You clearly have nothing better to do than rant and repeat yourself. I do.
12 comments on this thread and no other with a brand new account apparently created just to do so and 2 downvotes on most of the posts. I know when I am being trolled.
never any cheap bass guitars :\
Strings alone cost too much.
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Should sell my wife's Gibson and buy her an Aldi guitar. At least this way, she can not use something that didn't cost very much.