How to Buy Your First Acoustic Guitar

So you want to learn to play acoustic guitar. Superb! It's a great instrument to play. Learn chords and you can accompany yourself singing. Learn to riffs and scales so you can jam with buddies, or a recording. Learn difficult solo pieces, classical or modern. However 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 good 1, but they do differ in quality and sound tremendously. It is certainly best to try before you buy. Don't even think about purchasing a truly inexpensive guitar on-line, 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 shop owner. Choose the 1 you think sounds best then ask store owner to throw in a setup.

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

If you afford to invest a bit more, you can think about a high quality maker for your first acoustic guitar. Brands like Martin, Taylor, Breedlove, Larrivee, and Santa Cruz, make excellent acoustic guitars. They will price you more, but you could buy a used model for your first acoustic guitar. Many nearby guitar shops have used models to try. Once more, if you are shy, get the store owner to play them for you. EBay is a great place to get used guitars but beware. If the price appears too great to be accurate, it probably is. Most high quality guitar brands have serial numbers. Ask the seller for the serial number, and search serial numbers on the Internet. For example search for 'martin serial numbers'. Based 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, particularly if your research differs from their description.

So what do you get for the extra cash? Inexpensive guitars from China and Eastern Europe are generally made from laminated woods and have poor high quality tuning machines. High quality acoustic guitar makers, like Martin and Taylor, use strong woods, and their guitars sound a lot better. Over time the sound of a solid wood acoustic guitar gets better and much better. A procedure called 'opening up'.

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

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