Sometime in 1995, a keyboard-playing friend of mine E-mailed me asking me for some help and advice in purchasing an acoustic guitar. Since we were separated by roughly 1400 miles, I couldn't just hop in the car and go with him to the stores, pawn shops, etc. He was asking questions about price range, styles, name brands.... "No problem," I thought to myself. "I'll just look up the information on the WWW and give him an URL or two to check out."
To my surprise, I found no such easy resource online (at that time). In an apologetic E-mail, I gave him a few pointers and ideas, but then said to myself, "You know, I detect a need here...." And that's how I started work on this project.
Now, approaching ten years later, I average over to 65 visitors/day, and still get emails from folks wanting similar information. Believe me, nobody is more surprised about this than I am!! But I'm delighted to be a resource for folks looking for information about a first instrument. It's an honor and a privilege to contribute my knowledge, and make it available online.
I will offer a caveat, though: I don't claim this as the be-all, end-all of acoustic guitar documents. Far from it. But I DO believe that it is a decent collection of ideas and information that I think a first-time guitar shopper would find useful. If you can tolerate my fairly conversational style of writing, then you should find this page of use.
Need Assessment |
Acoustic Guitar Basics: |
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While you shop: trust your ears |
Where do you buy? |
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Maintenance/Repair |
Signal Processing/Recording |
You are encouraged to send me some feedback on the construction and content this page. I fully intend to credit contributors to this page, and wouldn't mind meeting a few new people in the process of it all!
