Classical Guitar Festival Experiences , Part 1

A couple years back, I was a vendor at an international guitar festival and in the first minutes of the opening day a gentleman approached my table and began looking at two western red cedar/East Indian rosewood guitar I had made. He complimented how they looked, then took one from its stand and played it. After several minutes of playing he tried the other cedar topped guitar and when he was finished with that one he asked me for prices, I told him that both were $3000. His eyes got big and asked “Really?” He returned the guitar to its stand and said, “I will be back!” Fifteen minutes later he returned with a friend and I immediately recognized his friend who was well known East coast classical guitar maker. The friend didn’t introduce himself and made no attempt to acknowledge my existence, and sat down opposite the gentleman who was already playing the first guitar he tried. 
“What do you think?”, the gentleman asked his friend.
“What is the price of the guitar?”, the friend asked.
“$3000.”
“Play the other one for me.”
The gentleman got up, got the second guitar and began to play it.
“Well, what do you think?”
“This guitar is more open sounding than the previous guitar. What is the price?”
“The same. Should I buy it?”
“No. They are too cheap.” The guitar maker immediately got up and walked away.
The gentleman sat in the chair holding the guitar randomly picking notes while looking at the floor. He rose from the chair, put the guitar back in the stand, looked at me with a shoulder shrug and walked away.

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