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First guitar

My first guitar was a Silvertone acoustic that my dad had bought many years before and badly needed a neck reset as the strings were miles from the fretboard at the 12th fret.

It was not a good experience.
 
Mine was a really cheap Sear's special. Name? Lost to the mists of time!:confused:

Have ended up with a red label 180 acoustic Yamaha, of late 60's vintage.

I don't do it justice in my hands. Terrific mellow sound, but bright as well.


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I bought a brand new Kay f-hole from a pawn shop for $25 when I was a junior in HS. A buddy who had a Silvertone electric & amp said he would teach me to play, so I jumped on it.
 
Eslwcetsw said:
One more, is there any better option that acoustic guitars? I don't know what I'm going to do.
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Go to a music store and talk to the experts...if there is one near you. At least it'll give you a chance to hold and feel and see if the instrument fits you. One size does not always fit all.

There is no need to spend 2 or 3k for an instrument. Not unless you're accomplished and really know what you want. You can get into a very playable import for $200-$300.
 
Eslwcetsw said:
Hi, one more question, can I use looper app for assistance to play these?

Like loopify, loop player, jam looper that's especially designed for ios users and other apps like these. What do you suggest?

Thanks,
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Yep. For example I use Music Speed Changer on Android to loop and/or slow down parts of songs I'm learning.
 
Still have my first guitar, which my mom bought me in London for my 9th birthday. A Vox Shadow with a neck pocket date of Dec. 1964.

I've recently restored it, ensuring tuners and electronics are all proper. Wish I could find a replacement trem bar- if any of you know of where to source one, please let me know. I've also been running in circles trying to find someone to make me a replacement headstock decal, but alas, no luck finding anyone who does this. The original was long gone, when I got the guitar in 1979.

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Had 3 pos guitars before what I'd consider my first real one. I don't believe the 1st 2 even had names but likely Tiesco or something. Bought a small Concorde acoustic and realized I liked playing unplugged. Who knew?

Started saving to get a real instrument and found a new Guild F50 at a local shop. The guy took $200 to hold it and off I went to find a bunch more money. Worked my ass off for a few months and went back to find they'd accidentally sold MY Guild. To say I was pissed was an understatement. The owner ended up selling me a new Martin D-18 for the same $. I played that baby for the next 35 years.

Don't ask.
 
Mystic said:
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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Hey Mystic, out of curiosity I've always wondered how much of a difference the sympathetic strings on the Coral actually make. What I mean is can they be heard clear and loud enough. I've seen many YouTube videos but none seem to address that issue. I was thinking of building an electric with drone strings but wondering if it wouldn't just be a waste of time.
 
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Hey Mystic, out of curiosity I've always wondered how much of a difference the sympathetic strings on the Coral actually make. What I mean is can they be heard clear and loud enough. I've seen many YouTube videos but none seem to address that issue. I was thinking of building an electric with drone strings but wondering if it wouldn't just be a waste of time.
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Not much as I recall, and in fact there was one I kept as "player" for a spelll (long since sold/traded off) @ which I removed the drone strings.

I did this also w/ a Ric 12-string --- made a really nice 'n wide-necked 6-string of it. It was a '67 360-12, the model w/ the more compact body.

I effin' hated the tuning key arrangement on that effin' thing, but as a 6-stringer it worked pretty well, albeit still the (for me) rather lackluster sound characteristics of Ric's so-called Filtertron PUPs.

Hm, I've drifted quite a distance from the Coral, lol.
 
I got my first guitar for Christmas in 1965. I picked one out of the Sears catalog, a Kingston solid body 3 color sunburst with tortoise pickguard that came with a small tube amp, guitar cord and strap. I picked that guitar out because it looked John Lennon's the most.

So my mother paid for my guitar lessons in '67 at a music store and she bought me a brand new Polaris white Gibson SG Jr. for $200 and then I bought a friends 1963 Gibson Discoverer Tremolo to go with it. Miss you Mom!
 
G&L Tribute Bluesboy, I got for Christmas and have been learning on. Unfortunately, it turns out I have a reaction to the nickel on the guitar. In the process of trying to figure out how to cost-effectively de-nickel my axe!
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Quadman2 said:
Mine was a really cheap Sear's special. Name? Lost to the mists of time!:confused:
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Was it a Silvertone, Ted?

My first guitar actually belonged to my Dad. It was an Orlando, which was a Japanese copy of a Martin D-18. He bought it at a shop near the LA airport in 1966, and it hung around the house for years. I kind of appropriated it after he lost interest. A few years ago I actually had it restored to give back to him but he told me to keep it as his fingers were too arthritic to play anymore (I'm starting to understand what he meant!).

My first bass (X-mas 1972) was a used blond Imperial Tonemaster hollowbody (more or less a copy of a Gibson EB-2) with a single humbucker-style pickup. It badly needed a neck reset as the action near the bridge was as high as a standup.
 
Regarding the crappy little Stella things from Sears:

When I was dealing geetars, I had players who purposely wanted those lil jobs for specific tonal qualities they possessed... a cheap hollow kinda~kinda not woody sound... or so I was told, on more than one occasion. I probably bought and sold a couple of dozen of that model over the years.

Another weirdo that I was often asked about is the infamous Amp-In-Case model Silvertone, you all know the one. Players did not want the amp, but the geetar --- often (IIRC) for slide playing. Those models did have the Dano lipstick PUPs and just about any guitar w/ those PUPs had a following... and ardent following.
 
Turns out I have a reaction to nickel, and all the parts/frets on my guitar are/were nickel. Replaced the neck with one that has stainless steel frets, non-nickel strings, and locking tuning machines that are coated, "cosmo black". New neck is roasted maple with a dark fingerboard, so it matches the tobacco burst really well.

Rookie question, can a neck improve the sound and play-ability of a guitar? Don't know if it's the neck or the setup after they put it on, but I could swear it sounds "better" now than with the original neck.
 
My first electric was something called a "Strad-O-Lin" three pickups and a lot of switches..Wish I had kept it, just for sentimental reasons.

First bass was a "Kimberly", wish I had kept that one too.

The first guitar I ever tried to play was my Dad's old no-name Parlor acoustic, I inherited that one, and still have it. Not a bad sounding-small bodied guitar!

My first "good" guitar was a Les Paul Deluxe I bought in the late 70's, and yeah dumazz me, I sold that one too! The guy I sold it to swapped it for a freakin' Kent or something stupidly similar..He told me "The frets were shot", and I'm still not sure if he even knew what he was talking about. I didn't know at the time what a stupid move selling it was, and REALLY wish I had kept that one! :crazy:
 
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