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First guitar

audiocrzy

audiocrzy

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Not the first guitar I owned but the first one I learned to play and the first song was Tell Me Why by Neil Young. It’s a 1960s nylon string Goya G-10 made in Sweden. Picked it up today. The ones made in Sweden are sweet. At some point Martin took them over and ruined the brand to put it out of business. I think they were making them in Korea.
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audiocrzy said:
Not the first guitar I owned but the first one I learned to play and the first song was Tell Me Why by Neil Young. It’s a 1960s nylon string Goya G-10 made in Sweden. Picked it up today. The ones made in Sweden are sweet. At some point Martin took them over and ruined the brand to put it out of business. I think they were making them in Korea.
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Nice. I've owned a few Goya "classical" models over the years, pert near all of 'em were decent players.
 
70s Yamaha FG150 concert style acoustic. Wish I still had it. It was a sweet sounding lady. 1st electric was a 80s pos strat copy by a company called Pro Sessions. Glad that one is gone.
 
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The Goya's that Martin had made in Japan were very nice. My first guitar was a Stella. What a piece of crap.
 
A Martin Stinger ST2. $110 Strat copy. Trem arm crossthreaded and broke in the bridge 1st day. I thought it wouldn't stay in tune, but I think now I just didn't now the ins and outs of tremolo bridges. Struggling with that thing kept me from owning anything but fixed bridge electrics for 20 years.
 
FWIW, Korea and Japan make excellent guitars, so does Indonesia.

If my Agile was made in China, then they also make great guitars.

My first guitar was a plywood-bodied Kramer strat copy. Frets were made from something a little harder than solder. It actually sounded just like my American Fender with Texas Specials in it.
 
Plywood guitars have a bad rep but my main strat is a partscaster with a 90s Korean Squier body that is a big hunk of plywood and is the most resonate strat I'vs seen in a long time (and I've owned over 150+ strats in my 40+ years of playing). But they aren't all created equal. Every guitar I've played is unique in feel and sound. So YMMV.
 
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Coral Firefly (sorta like a cheap slightly smaller 335 copy) followed by a Magnatone Bass.
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I had a Coral Firefly back about 1991. It was made by Danolectro and had two lipstick tube pickups. If I remember correctly, it was fully hollow like an Epiphone Casino. Nice guitar and one I regret selling. You don't see them too often.
 
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I had a Coral Firefly back about 1991. It was made by Danolectro and had two lipstick tube pickups. If I remember correctly, it was fully hollow like an Epiphone Casino. Nice guitar and one I regret selling. You don't see them too often.
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Had the Coral "sitar" -- a couple of 'em -- over the years. Not great "player" instruments but good conversation pieces and tradin' fodder.
 
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70s Yamaha FG150 concert style acoustic. Wish I still had it. It was a sweet sounding lady. 1st electric was a 80s pos strat copy by a company called Pro Sessions. Glad that one is gone.
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Those guitars that got away. My very first guitar was a Guild D25. During a time of no job and rent due I had to sell it to keep the landlord happy. Looking back I never should have. I eventually bought anther. Same model and year at about 4 times the cost of the original.
 
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Plywood guitars have a bad rep but my main strat is a partscaster with a 90s Korean Squier body that is a big hunk of plywood and is the most resonate strat I'vs seen in a long time (and I've owned over 150+ strats in my 40+ years of playing). But they aren't all created equal. Every guitar I've played is unique in feel and sound. So YMMV.
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Both of these had plywood bodies. The vintage white one was a 1994-1995 Bullet that was one of the most resonant guitars I've ever played. It was also quite lightweight.

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This was my first - Gibson SG 61 Reissue. It now belongs to the guitarist for White Hills - Dave W. (pictured). I'm very happy it's living this lifestyle.

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Red Hagstrom II, single coils, in pieces, given to me by a friend when I was helping to move his store to a new location. Another friend helped me put it together twenty five years later. I later gave it to my niece, who still gigs on it. I'll see about pics sometime and post.
 
Hm, don't think I ever told y'all about my first geetars.

First geetar, period: Gibson J-45, "permanent" loaner from older cousin to me @ around age 9, when I started lessons. nb: he also "lent" me a little Martin, probably a 00 -- definitely was not a drednaught "D" bodied specimen)

First electric: cheap cheap Jap-made Mayfair, a Lester~Strat mashup ... but not in a good way like the stuff PRS issued much later. Also bagged @ age 9, I banged on this thing for about six months, @ which point my geetar teacher got us a deal via a fellow musican for a '63 Fender Stratocaster (Oly White), thing still looked "new" back then. My (paternal) grandmother popped around $75, as I recall, for it + a tweed Deluxe amp. IIRC, the amp cost an additional $25. So, 55 years later, I still have that very same '63 Stratocaster, which started lookin' "not new" @ least 35 years ago.
 
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Mystic said:
Hm, don't think I ever told y'all about my first geetars.

First geetar, period: Gibson J-45, "permanent" loaner from older cousin to me @ around age 9, when I started lessons. nb: he also "lent" me a little Martin, probably a 00 -- definitely was not a drednaught "D" bodied specimen)

First electric: cheap cheap Jap-made Mayfair, a Lester~Strat mashup ... but not in a good way like the stuff PRS issued much later. Also bagged @ age 9, I banged on this thing for about six months, @ which point my geetar teacher got us a deal via a fellow musican for a '63 Fender Stratocaster (Oly White), thing still looked "new" back then. My (paternal) grandmother popped around $75, as I recall, for it + a tweed Deluxe amp. IIRC, the amp cost an additional $25. So, 55 years later, I still have that very same '63 Stratocaster, which started lookin' "not new" @ least 35 years ago.
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Man, a J45 for a first guitar! I had to make do with a Stella.
 
Watched an interview with Steve Lukather last night and at the end when Beato asks him about guitars he mentions a story about Larry Carlton being approached after a concert and the fan says "man that 335 sounds great", so Larry puts the the guitar down on the stand then walks away and says 'how does it sound now'.
Your 335 is beautiful and was a better investment than the used car you were likely going to buy with that money.
 
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