Thursday, April 5, 2012

Acoustic Guitar Lessons - Is It That Important To Buy A Really Expensive Guitar

By Bob Bly


After watching a great blues guitar performance, one of the most common questions that comes by the audience is 'what kind of guitar is that'? This reflects a common misconception about a musician's performance, basically that it's the instrument and not the guitarist that is responsible for the music! Never mind all the guitar lessons and hundreds of hours practicing!

All guitarists have the ambition of having the best and most luxurious guitar and somehow think that it will enhance their skills. Typically, it does aid to use a great guitar, but a great musician will sound amazing with any guitar, somewhat. It's quite secure to tell you that you can have a good instrument for just a few hundreds today and for its functions, it is more than enough. There is a really small difference when you compare a high costing guitar to a not so high-priced guitar.

Remember that exceptions are unavoidable and it is likely to depend on the instrument. Like how five top end Martins of different ages compare to a Vintage(parlor guitar) that costs under $200 and has the award for the 'Best Acoustic Under $1000' a few years ago .

Also keep in mind how you use the guitar. Playing acoustics, to an ever thankful audience, with a great tone and harmonic content is really putting the guitar to use as compared to amplifying the acoustic guitar with a pickup, which destroys the purpose of the acoustic guitar.

The best advice is to spend over $200 and less than $800. You will surely get something in between that will suit your style. Look around carefully, and consider a good second hand guitar, as long as it has been looked after. It's a bit of a hit and miss business - sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. The older Harmony and Stella guitars didn't have a steel rod inside the neck, and tended to split at the joint connection the neck to the body. This became very evident when guitarists decided to change their gut strings for steel, often with disastrous results. The extra tension produced sometimes broke the guitar in two, and seemed to depend upon the quality of the construction.




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