Who plays acoustic guitar?

[CoderGuy]

I'm a raw novice... just started learning guitar less than a year ago. Started out with a cheap no-name, but upgraded recently to a Breedlove Passport OM/MMe, which I really love. Playing mostly with a pick at present, but I'm starting to learn a little fingerpicking. I play everything from Bach to The Dead Weather. I don't play many songs well, just yet, but it's a work in progress.

I know a G chord. Now THAT's raw novice. But after 4 days, my fingers aren't hurting as much, so I press on.

[devilock76]

I do, however I spend way more of my time as a bass player. I am a finger style player who plays a lot in open tunings. I have an old Hohner classical in standard though. I also have a Yamaha Acoustic Electric I have used for years that I have done a lot of work to. That is my main strummer and picker. My new home tuning I use on the Yammie is a incarnation of C#minor7 tuning that I have "invented". I only say invented as I cannot find a record of anyone else using a tuning like this. It kind of came to me as a hybrid of being in a Black Sabbath tribute as well as interest in the tuning the band Karnivool uses.

Ken

[BadAxe]

No Taylor fans here? I LOVE my Taylor. Just much more attracted to Taylor's signature "bright" sound more than Martins. Not dissing Martins though, just love my Taylor. I actually have a 1971 Sigma Series Acoustic as well as my Taylor. The Sigma is a lesser Martin, like Epiphone is to Gibson. Was a steal at $50, so I could not turn it down. But my Taylor gets way more play.

[victoryredchevy]

Purchased this pretty thing in December:

[Snusdog]

No Taylor fans here? I LOVE my Taylor. Just much more attracted to Taylor's signature "bright" sound more than Martins. Not dissing Martins though, just love my Taylor. I actually have a 1971 Sigma Series Acoustic as well as my Taylor. The Sigma is a lesser Martin, like Epiphone is to Gibson. Was a steal at $50, so I could not turn it down. But my Taylor gets way more play.

I'll stand with you brother...........I have a Taylor and love it............... Scallop bracing and single piece front and back..........I got it about 20 years ago..........side by side with a Martin you would have had to go up a few grades in the Martin line to get the sound quality of my Taylor.

I have not kept up with the how the two companies have progressed so I can't speak to any comparison today .............but when I bought it, the Taylors were what the Martins had been back in their glory days

[Premium Parrots]

keep working on it Coderguy.....its a good hobby of the elderly.





well I do have an acoustic guitar. I think its a yamaha. Its been lost in my attic for years. I've looked but its not there. I do have some electric fiddles but this thread is about acoustics.

I don't want to throw this thread off topic. Its the only thread on the site that has stayed on topic....so far.

[Zimobog]

Frankie Reloaded, that was the most beautiful thing I have read on this forum. Anti-commie libertarian camp outs and playing for your children sounds like the two best things a guy could do with his guitar.

I own three box guitars: one is an ancient Gibson classical that was my great grandpa's and two that arent worth mentioning.

I also have a Yamaha electric, two banjos (Denver Belle and one I made for the nuclear holocaust from an old metal gas can), and I have a superbly crafted mountain dulcimer.

[Premium Parrots]

for all of you.......




Lets see em!!

[Zimobog]

Ok, then. Here you guys go!

[Premium Parrots]

nice. Love the banjo. Thanks for sharing. One day I'd like to try out a delcimer.

[Zimobog]

PP, I made a dulcimer back in 8th grade (not that one). They are a lot of fun to play. Pretty unique sounding, too. I have lived at both ends of the Appalachians so I grew up hearing them. I play claw hammer banjo not bluegrass.

[Premium Parrots]

I love unusal sounding instruments.

I have a Dean 12 string banjo that has the fullest but twangy sound I've ever heard. Sometimes it sounds like a freaking orchestra.


I'm not that much into bluegrass........play another herb.



edit....here is another instrument thread. I miss snusgetter
http://www.snuson.com/forum/showthre...t=string+banjo

[Premium Parrots]

I'd love to try a sitar

[Zimobog]

Clawhammer isn't bluegrass! It's playing old time tunes the Scots-Irish ancestors brought over in the traditional way!
I like bluegrass, but it's only been around since the 1960s. Anyhow, that's a link to a vid of me playing Whisky Before Breakfast.

[Premium Parrots]

sounds great mate. I wish my fingers would cooperate like that. Arthritis sucks.