Remember Your First Guitar?

[falseta]

Anyone still have there first guitar? I keep mine in a case as it is now over 20 years old! It was purchased via mail order and was not the best of quality but it took a beating thats for sure!

What was your first guitar and do you still have it?

[Estanislao]

My first guitar was some off-brand steel string acoustic which wasn't all that bad a guitar. I used it to learn first priciples until I could find a classical guitar. I bought it at a pawnshop for forty dollars.

My first classical guitar showed up at the same pawnshop about a year later and they wanted the same price for it. I haven't seen a classical guitar of any make before or since in the local pawnshops. I went home and grabbed my stell string guitar and as I was walking across the street (that pawnshop is across the street from me) some fellow spotted me with the guitar and offered me almost the same money I had invested in the guitar cash. I took it. So I ended up with my Blueridge classical guitar. The local music shops tell me I got a good deal on that Blueridge. It has a cedar top and mahogany sides and back. As near as I can tell it is made of solid wood instead of laminated. I still have it and don't plan on letting it go.

It has a dark tone to it unlike spruce topped guitars and makes a great guitar to play a tarantas or minas or similar styles on.

[Chiste de Gales]

My first guitar was a steel string Yamaha. I bought it in 1988
and still have it.

[Black Sheep]

My first guitar was a 'no name' nylon folk guitar. The action was so high you could put a dictionary between the strings. I think I lowered the action with my father's chisels. I think I just threw it away at some stage.

[deteresa]

I've had a few pawn shop guitars over the years. Sometimes I just can't resist a random nylon string guitar for $50. Often I will set them up better for flamenco and sell them back to students.
Anyhow my first guitar, I still have it but I don't play it much, it's an Ibanez acoustic-electric with built in Fishman preamp. It sounds really good actually and it was a gift which is why I don't sell it. Learned my first Nirvana songs on that guitar...
My first nylon string guitar is still hanging up in the living room, I take it down to noodle or when I get an ingenious idea on the fly. It's a Toyota believe it or not, factory made in the 70s.