How to Buy Your First Acoustic Guitar

So you want to learn to play acoustic guitar. Excellent! It's a great instrument to play. Learn chords and you can accompany your self singing. Learn to riffs and scales so you can jam with buddies, or a recording. Learn difficult solo pieces, classical or modern. Nevertheless before you can begin you require to buy your first acoustic guitar.

You might be tempted to get googling and find a cheap guitar shaped object (GSO). There are many on EBay, and even you nearby guitar shop will have them. Sometime you can be fortunate and get a great one, but they do differ in high quality and sound tremendously. It is certainly very best to try before you buy. Don't even consider buying a really cheap guitar online, or from EBay. Find a nearby guitar shop and try every one they have that you can afford. Take someone who can play, to play the guitars for you, or ask the store owner. Pick the 1 you think sounds very best then ask shop owner to throw in a setup.

A setup ensures that the guitar plays and sounds as good as it can. The guitar tech will verify the distance between the frets and the strings are correct and that they don't buzz or rattle. They'll also verify the frets for sharp ends. After a setup you can be confident that your first acoustic guitar is not going to hold back your learning.

If you afford to spend a bit more, you can think about a quality maker for your first acoustic guitar. Brands like Martin, Taylor, Breedlove, Larrivee, and Santa Cruz, make superb acoustic guitars. They will price you more, but you could buy a used model for your first acoustic guitar. Many local guitar stores have used models to try. Again, if you are shy, get the shop owner to play them for you. EBay is a great place to get used guitars but beware. If the price appears as well good to be true, it most likely is. Most high quality guitar brands have serial numbers. Ask the seller for the serial quantity, and search serial numbers on the Internet. For instance search for 'martin serial numbers'. Depending on the brand you can find when the guitar was made and in some cases if it has been stolen. Don't be afraid to ask the seller concerns, especially if your research differs from their description.

So what do you get for the additional money? Cheap guitars from China and Eastern Europe are usually made from laminated woods and have poor high quality tuning machines. Quality acoustic guitar makers, like Martin and Taylor, use strong woods, and their guitars sound a lot better. More than time the sound of a strong wood acoustic guitar gets much better and much better. A procedure known as 'opening up'.

Not all guitars with a solid top are very costly. Check out the Seagull guitars which have a solid spruce top. They sound and play great. I know many newbies who had been delighted with the Seagull they purchased as their first acoustic guitar.

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