New guitar

[that_punk_guy]

I got my new guitar today!



:love:

What isn't immediately apparent from this picture is how beautiful it smells, feels and how awesome it sounds.

Also, now that I own two guitars I have no excuse for being crap at playing them. ;-) Which is good, because I can hardly put this one down. I actually stopped and played for ten minutes or so in the middle of this post.

It's a Tanglewood with rosewood sides, neck and bridge, and a solid soundboard. It was also quite cheap (in the good way - ie. I got a good deal), and Uncle Neil (that's the name of the shop, and presumably the guy who runs it) let me have a case for it for free (we didn't have enough money to buy one, and in fact had to go to the travel agents to exchange some old euros just to scrape the cash together for the guitar!)

(Don't laugh at my chintzy sofa, it was free okay? :-D)

[Speelgoedmannetje]

I hope that you might express much inspiration and feelings with it Chris!
:pint:

[Karlos]

Cool. Is it steel strung?

[that_punk_guy]

Yeah :-)

I actually really wanted nylon strings, because my stepdad's classical guitar sounds so nice, but when I first heard this one (and couldn't see what strings it had) I actually thought it had nylon strings. It just has some of the the sound that I associate with nylon strings, I suppose. Anyway, it sounds good. :-D

[Wilse]

Nice guitar Chris.

I remember buying myself an acoustic guitar for Christmas ;-) about
five years ago.

I still play it, although I'm still hopeless. :lol:

I bet it feels like your most prized posession right now?

[that_punk_guy]

Wilse wrote:
I bet it feels like your most prized posession right now?

I daren't touch it! :lol:

[odin]

Better put it in a glass box and hang it on the wall then :-).

[Blomberg]

Nice one, i'm sure you'll get many joyous hours out of it (and even more so than a nylon stringed).

I so regret having sold my steel string back in the day (a 12-string even), it wasn't anything special, got it cheap, sold it even cheaper (stupid, stupid, stupid!!), but it had that Dreadnaught sound you just can't get from a nylon.

Too bad I'm even more skint now than I was back then

[The_Editor]

Nice Axe  TPG

Since I bought my Acoustic my playing has come on in leaps and bounds ...  I now take my guitar with me in my truck,  when I have to wait to be unloaded (most BIG coldstores make us wait around two hours .. If its those tossers called Phil Handley at Newark then its four hours !!) I pick up my axe and start playing.

My other guitar is an SG200 so its kinda stupid taking that in my truck with me.


Oh yeah .. Mines a Steel strung Fender electro-acoustic.

Its actually doing me a favour playing it because the action is higher than my SG so I have to press harder .. Which in turn strengthens the muscles up further.


Just learning Lynryd Skynryds Freebird atm .. Which kinda hurts the fingers keep bending the strings up that far !!

7>8


Have fun

[z5]

 :knuddel: (that's to the guitar, if anyone wonders :-P )

Woohoo... i can feel with you, TPG. I started playing accoustic guitar 5 years ago and i love it. Pity i didn't start earlier.

One day, in the not so distant future, i am going to buy myself a really good guitar as the one i got is not so good.

Enjoy playing ! :-D

[that_punk_guy]

z5 wrote:
Pity i didn't start earlier.

I totally sympathise with that, kids have so much more spare time to practice. I'd kill to go back and take some lessons when I was nine, (the age one of my old friends started, he plays well) everything I've "learnt" has been from pure experimentation. I'm thinking of taking a few lessons to improve my discipline.

Thing is, I can only afford lessons when I have a job, but when I have a job I don't have time for the lessons. Catch 22. :-(

[The_Editor]

@ TPG

My mate started teaching me in 1983 ... Then the TIT overdosed & died !!

I gave up trying to learn after that ...

It was about a year ago I realised that I'd had a guitar some 20 years ( Actually i had one in 76 but never mind that) and I was utter crap.

Time to do something about it ...  

Everytime I picked it up  plugged it in (SG200) my missuses gave me a bigger earache than my playing...

So ..

I bought the afformentioned Fender acoustic and started practising in my truck ...

All with the help of .....

Guitar Tab Universe

Can play pretty kewl now,   But long way to go yet !!

[Mike_Amiga]

My brother drives me nuts daily with the amount of guitar playing he does! He's also got a drum kit and that's even worse, it's soooooo smegging loud! :pissed: It's not that he plays terribly it's just the shear amount of sound he generates over the course of a day.

This Christmas he got a small digital multi tracker too, go here if you wanna here it an example. It has potential and I've heard him play the song better but the solo just isn't in the right key or something although I can hear what he's attempting to achieve.

[iamaboringperson]

Look at what I bought on Saturday. (I've only recently found out that it's no longer "top of the range")

[whabang]

Nice!