Education guitar and method of manufacture

A method of creating an instrument for teaching a music student how to play a fretted, stringed instrument, the method comprising steps of:

• obtaining a neck for a fretted, stringed instrument, said neck comprising a fingerboard assembled thereon, said fingerboard comprising a series of frets assembled thereto along a lateral direction across said fingerboard, each fret being located in accordance with a predetermined spacing;
• creating a series of note identifiers by cutting a recession into said fingerboard using a laser, each note identifier is created proximate to a string and fret intersection and provided to identify a respective note defined by the adjacent string and fret intersection;
• assembling said fingerboard to a neck of a fretted, stringed instrument;
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• assembling said fretted, stringed instrument neck and fingerboard combination to a fretted, stringed instrument body.

A method of creating an instrument for teaching a music student how to play a fretted, stringed instrument, the method comprising steps of:

• obtaining a neck for a fretted, stringed instrument, said neck comprising a fingerboard assembled thereon, said fingerboard comprising a series of frets assembled thereto along a lateral direction across said fingerboard, each fret being located in accordance with a predetermined spacing;
• creating a series of notes by cutting a recession into said fingerboard using a laser, each note is created proximate to a string and fret intersection, wherein each note is created as a human legible letter respective to a respective note defined by the adjacent string and fret intersection;
• and
• assembling said fretted, stringed instrument neck and fingerboard combination to a fretted, stringed instrument body.