Acoustic

[Regan]

Mine should be from 2005, so it's a pretty 'young' guitar. It has a few dings, but the previous owner installed a see-through pickguard (i'm not into that too much, maybe i'll remove it)
It doesn't have a pickup, i'm not playing live anyways - no band, no gigs. No driving licence, no band. As easy as it can get
Also, my ability to sing/play simultaneously isn't that good because i'm not singing for that long. So no lonely guitar playing as a depressing/-ed singer/songwriter, covering one Beatles or one Cash song in each show and no talking about the philosophy of love. It takes time to build a voice so that it's strong enough. I'm not even loud enough to compete with my classical guitar when strummed.

with that floor, you should not buy a Mascis JM - you'd never find it again if you'd dropped it on the floor.
BTW - your Seagull is nice too!

Thanks! I like yours too. LaSiDo makes Seagull and Godin guitars. I think their bang-for-the-buck is really good.

It does take time, but that Seagull might help you build your voice. And if you're just worried about singing loud enough, a PA system can help you there!

Regan

[kle]

Thanks! I like yours too. LaSiDo makes Seagull and Godin guitars. I think their bang-for-the-buck is really good.

Indeed, it is. I've got it to a quite attractive price

It does take time, but that Seagull might help you build your voice. And if you're just worried about singing loud enough, a PA system can help you there!

Yeah, if i don't smoke too much and lose my voice for a month again.
A PA could help me for sure (i'd need one anyway), but i don't want to let the PA do the job. It's something i want to achieve. Don't know if anyone can understand that. I just want to reach a level in which i'm loud (and good) enough to sing as loud as my guitar.

[kle]

I've got my Seagull today.

The previous owner may have handled it quite hard but with love, as it has a few deep scratches, but on the other hand, he put a foil "pickguard" on it. He's  a very symphatic guy from what i noticed while talking over ebay, but that foil pickguard was a mistake. :-\

As i removed it, i peeled a little bit of the finish off (it's a beater, i can live with that) and then it had a lot of glue on it. After nearly half an hour of scratching softly over the glue, i just used medical alcohol you usually use to disinfect wounds to scratch that f*ing glue off (my dad's a doctor, we always used that method to scratch off the glue of plasters).

It went so/so, as it had a little bit of an effect on the finish (it just looks a little more used), but hasn't peeled all of that *%$#% glue off.
Soemtimes there's that thought, that i ruined a nice guitar just from peeling off that foil.

Anyways, here's a picture of it after i took care of it with alcohol. Please excuse the mess behind it.

[magnificent studios]

I'm trying to teach myself The River Man by Nick Drake at the moment.

Man, I'm close to banging my head against the wall. The singing & the chord shapes are easy. It's the timing thats the killer.

I'm determined to nail this tune though, its absolutely beautiful.

You probably have it down by now, but I just learned this one myself. In terms of upstrokes and downstrokes, the pattern is

D U
D U U
D D U U

I don't hear any variation from this pattern in the song. I don't know that he's actually using up and down strumming (didn't he play with his fingers)  but that 1-2  1-2-3  1-2-3-4 pattern is constant through the song. (sorry i don't know how to actually count it properly for 5/4 timing).

[jamrine]

I had a Seagull as my first "real" guitar and it was a great instrument and a good value.

If I were buying now in the $500 range, I would be looking at the new Made-in-China Guilds.  The ones I have played have all been very nice.  The small bodies are particularly nice.  The necks feel good and the woods are all solid (although, I think they have different grades with some having lam sides and backs).

Now that I have had a couple of Martins, I can never go back to something lower-end.  The Guilds would be as low as I could go.  I am considering one of those in the future for a small body for noodlign around alone.  My 12-fret D-sized Martin is a bit large for couch-picking.

[idiotbear]

I post this, not as a repost of my band update from the Music board, but as a way of showing how much I like my cheapo Fender acoustic. Made in China, no frills at all (apart from a piezo pickup and EQ). I think it sounds really nice - very warm and chimy, with none of the tinny rasp I usually associate with cheap acoustic instruments.

So yeah, obviously I'd love a really top-drawer acoustic, but this little fella's served me very well for the last 10 years or so.

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