You can't go wrong with a Martin D-28.
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![]() Or if you're learning and just trying to figure out if you can even play the thing and don't want to pay a price literally 2 orders of magnitude bigger, this is a decent starter guitar: https://www.rondomusic.com/cl150cvtrds.html This company apparently sells a lot of replicas from companies that build the big names. Very good quality, very good prices, unknown names. I had mine checked out by someone who plays real guitar extremely well. He was quite impressed with the quality. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson. |
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![]() Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson. |
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![]() At least I didn't suggest this one. ;0) OTOH, I'm not a real guitar player, but I am a real banjo player and I can tell you with absolute certainty that I cannot get my first banjo (a gift from my parents when I was 12) to ever sound like my Gibson Pre-War TB11 conversion. There is something to be said for not starting out on what we used to call "department store instruments" imo. For one thing, a quality instrument is a lot easier to fret and will make anyone sound better. ;0) bcnu, Mikem It's mourning in America again. |
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![]() Made by the same people who make the name brand instruments. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson. |
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![]() I also have one of these and I must say it is a very fine instrument, despite it's being made 60 years after my Gibson. ;0) There are very high quality banjos being made today. Even the relatively inexpensive Deering GoodTime resonator banjos (around $900.00 the last I looked) I've heard have really good tone. This is a *very* hot discussion/argument in banjo circles. Are the new Stellings, Huber's, Prucha's, Cox's, Sullivan's, etc. as "good" as the Pre-War Gibson's? My real opinion is play it, if you like it, it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks. bcnu, Mikem It's mourning in America again. |
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![]() OK, I absolutely do not understand the high end vintage acoustic guitar market. |
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![]() bcnu, Mikem It's mourning in America again. |
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![]() "Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman |
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![]() had to give up the drum kit when all my kids moved back in, should have let the kids go and kept the drums "Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman |