Acoustic Guitar Recommendations (1 Viewer)

[Matt Stryker]

It's not the tobacco that's addictive, it's the "cool, yet sophisticated" image conveyed by smoking that makes it so hard to give up.

You obviously haven't been to a bingo hall in a retirement home in FLA. It's definitely the nicotine thats got me.
Good advice on the cheap guitar though. As long as what you by has a straight neck and correctly set up action, it will not limit your technique. I'll have to check out that Gibson, I've been looking for a jumbo!

 

[Joe D]

While guitar playing to some is addicting, a lot of people buy an instrument and play it for a few months, and then quit playing. You also don't know what you want to play, you might love hearing the acoustic sound on albums, but you can't stand playing it, so you're stuck with an expensive instrument that sounds good for classical music, but sucks for rock. Same thing with electric guitars, the great distortion pickups don't sound that great when played clean.

So I would also recommend buying a cheap guitar that is decent but not great. This way you can learn to play on a cheap guitar, find out all the mistakes that can occur, like bumping the guitar on something, which is bound to happen right away. I believe Fender makes a cheap acoustic that is good for beginning.

It's like a car, is it resonable to learn how to drive in a new car, probably not to most people, guitar playing is the same way.

But, don't get a guitar that isn't playable, since playing wouldn't be any fun then.

 

[Rain]

...like bumping the guitar on something, which is bound to happen right away.

Just for the record, I've bumped my Seagull a zillion times already and there isn't a mark on it.

 

[ikiru]

Just for the record, I've bumped my Seagull a zillion times already and there isn't a mark on it.

Not me, my seagull guitar has plenty of "character".
-ikiru

 

[Philip Hamm]

I'll go further than that: My Seagull looks like total fuck. SOmebody who owned it previous to my brother who sold it to me played it SUPER HARD with a heavy pick or something. It looks friggin' AWFUL.
Plays & Sounds great, though.

If your looking to save a little money I would recommend "Art & Lutherie". They are owned by the same company that owns Seagull. They are a little company in a small town in Canada where most of the population has a hand in building the guitars.

Yup, sounds like Godin.