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What was your first acoustic guitar??
I learned how to play on an old nylon string that my mom owned when I was 14 but the first steel string guitar I ever owned was an Ovation. I think it was a Balladeer but I honestly don't know for sure. Anyways, since then I have graduated from a Washburn D10(which I still own)to my current lovelies, a Taylor 214ce and a Larrivee' LV-03RE. So, fellers, ladies, tell me your stories!
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Permalink Reply by Pete Counter on -
My first was a global classical style, my parents bought for christmas 1979 from service merchandise. It was so bad the fretboard was actually coming off the neck. the following christmas I got a magnum brand quasi dreadnought style wich lived about ten years but not very actively. It didnt live through a girlfriend episode (RIP). After This I went through the obligatory electric years, since then I've had a few good acoustics, Tacoma, Martin an old yamaha, None as horrid as that first one tho.
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Permalink Reply by Chuck Weeks on -
My first guitar was a Stella on Christmas 1964. Needed vice grips to play up on the neck. However, I did learn to play and I wish I still had it.
Chuck
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Permalink Reply by Gordy Bushaw on -
Hi. Brand new member here.
My first guitar was a long-gone cheap Asian classical guitar that I bought new in 1966. A year later, for $50 I bought my first decent guitar--a near basket case, but still playable, 1957 Martin D-18. The top on the D-18 finally collapsed around 1975. I had the guitar completely rebuilt in 1978 (new top, patched holes and cracks, new fingerboard and frets). After the rebuild, it was a wonderful guitar which I played happily for many years. I eventually gave it to my guitar-fanatic son as a college graduation present in 2006. He plays the D-18 almost every day.
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Permalink Reply by Kent Babcock on -
What a great story about the D18. Hope your son passes it on as well.
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Permalink Reply by ChenWai Wong on -
My first guitar was a Hondo that my mom gave me when I was a kid. Then years later while we were living in Mexico, I bought a guitar off a guy in a flea market for 2 dollars (This was the early 80s). It was a nylon string but I wanted to play steel strings so I just put a set on. A few weeks later, while I was learning how to play 'Dust in the Wind' the top started to pull up towards the lower bout so I got a couple of nails and hammered it down. I then put nails all around the top to make sure it wouldn't pull up anywhere else and then painted the nailheads black. Believe it or not my friends thought it looked cool!! I later gave it to a neighbor's kid. It was still holding together and didn't sound half bad!!!
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Permalink Reply by Luis Motta da Silva on -
The same problem may occurr if you move to a very different climate. Because of that, I've seen, and heard of, a number of Portuguese-made instruments suffering of that "top pull-up diease" as their owners moved to Portuguese-speaking countries in Tropical and Equatorial Africa (Angola, Guiné-Bissau), where humidity and heat may be extreme. And the "cure" was the same - nails or, in a more sophisticated version, screws! The success of that solution depends on a specific factor: the kind of wood the kerfed linings inside the soundbox are made of. And, since the top surface is left free to vibrate, it's fairly possible that the solution doesn't affect much the instrument's sound. But I would rather try to use GLUE to fix the problem!
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Permalink Reply by Barry L. Cimino on
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My first acoustic was from a department store and had no name, just stamped "Made in U.S.A." inside. The next wasn't much better; a "TeleStar" 000-size which somehow was lost during a move. For Valentine's Day 1987 my wife "financed" a Martin Shenandoah D35(32), which I still have today. It's yellowed (and mellowed) beautifully, has a great finish, and sounds big and sweet! Also couldn't resist what looks like a very old Stella (working to verify the stamping now) at a garage sale; gave it a mild reconditioning, and although the neck needs work, it at least looks good!
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Permalink Reply by Robert Hancox on -
Both my older brothers played back when I was in HS (mid-70's). I really wanted to learn so my oldest brother let me borrow his nylon string (that he got before he went in the army in '70). The first song I learned was Down by the River, by Neil Young.
A couple months later, he wanted it back but my other brother offered to let me borrow his guitar, a Yamaha steel string, but I don't remember the model. I played that for a couple of years (I think) when my grandmother wanted to buy me a guitar for my birthday/HS graduation. It was a Hohner. Don't recall the model but it was similar to a 000 or 00 size. I had that guitar for 2-3 years until it was stolen while I lived with a friend of mine.
My grandmother heard about the guitar being stolen and offered to go halves on another one with my brother (the one with the Yamaha). Since my playing buddy had just bought a Tak 12-string, I decided I wanted one too, so I picked out a Hohner 12-string (HGK-512) that I still have. The bridge is lifting after 30 years of constant string tension, though the strings are off of it now. It hadn't been played for the last 10 yrs or so.
When my mom passed away in the fall of '08, she left me a small amount of money. Since she always loved to hear me play, I decided to buy a new guitar and start playing again. I got a Yamaha FG-720 12-string.
One day I will get the old Hohner 12-string fixed. I'd love to play it again someday.
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Permalink Reply by Luis Motta da Silva on
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Hi!
Do you mean the bridge-top gluing is breaking?
Were the strings anchored with pins, or tied to the bridge?
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Permalink Reply by Chris Graham on -
I just bought my first guitar about 2 weeks ago. An Ibanez AEG10E acoustic/electric. I like it so far, but I am already saving for a nicer one down the road. I just have to wait until I can actually play a little so that I know exactly what I want.
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Permalink Reply by Ken Rogers on -
I started on my brother-in-law's old Silvertone acoustic - a surprisingly good sounding, easy to play guitar - but the first acoustic I bought was a Suzuki dread. For the money at the time, if was a pretty good guitar, good sound and nice action. I sold it when I bought my Giannini steel string, which I played pretty much exclusively till I got the Martin. However, I have a new friend that followed me home yesterday: a Larrivee LV-05 (sweet! My wife actually approved!).
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Permalink Reply by dave eyles on
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mine first was an 1985 yamaha fg420 given to me on my 22 birthday by my late mother, still have it and would never get rid of it for sentimental reasons,and she still plays great.gotta love those old yammies
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