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I'm going to be buying my girlfriend an accoustic guitar for her birthday but I don't know anything about guitars
is there aything really important I should know?
any brand names you can't go wrong with?
I'm looking in the $200-$400 range
any help is appreciated
- mitsu0
if you can find a martin in that price range, get it!
- matt250
seagull is good in that price range
- Biofreak0
martin and seagull = excellent
ibanez, taylor, gibson, fender, takamine etc. these are good brands. you can find some models in your pricerange. be careful though, if she already plays and plays well, then you will need to take a guitarist friend along with you.
if you get one that has shitty fret action, then she will dump you and humiliate you in front of your friends. heheh.
gretsch, honer also make some solid guitars for your price range and lower.
the list goes on and these are just a few. i really suggest you do take along a friend who plays. let them feel the guitars and test them out.
good luck and let us know whatyou get her! =)
- exador0
bio is totally right..
my inlaws got me a guitar for a wedding present..
nice guitar and all, and i totally appreciate it..
but the action sucks..
bee playing it since i was married, and i still haven't bothered to take it to the guitar shop downtown to have the action lowered a bit...
annoying..
nice guitar, and i love it..
but man..
nothing worse than action being a tad too high..
its, like..playable...but eeerrrrrhhhh...you have to be a player to know how much it can just irk ya...
- trebor0
http://www.gibson.com/products/e…
That is a good guitar for a small amount of money. I bought mine for 2500 kronor in sweden, which is somewhere around 250 dollars I guess.
Good luck
- zanetate0
My first acoustic (an Ibanez) had terrible action. But I'm actually glad it did because going electric was so much easier than it would have been. Killed my fingers but made em stronger.
- nerdtech0
the new lower end gretsch acoustics are really nice.
- HepKat0
zanetate- i think has the right idea, i bought a gibson epiphone acoustic a few months ago as my first guitar and i lokk it, it looks the same as the one in the pic but its all black... i dont know much about guitars either but it sounds great... i recommend it...everyone i talked to said it was a great buy, it was new and cost $170 Canadian dollars... so yeah, only problem was i had to get the bridge raised but that took 2 seconds... no biggy
- Biofreak0
i bought a gibson epiphone about 8 years ago. it sounds like shit, it feels like shit, and plays like shit.
but is very pretty. =)that is not to say that all epiphones are bad, but i do not endorse them. they are generally cheaper knockoffs.
- mitsu0
"i bought a gibson epiphone about 8 years ago. it sounds like shit"
yeah, i love gibson hard bodies, but their accoustic counterparts tend to sound horrible. of course, epiphones are just the lower end of the gibson spectrum and you get what you pay for so...
funnily enough, as much as i've always disliked yamaha products, their accoustics sound surprisingly good. very rich, full bodied sound... kinda like wine... ya know? can anyone else attest to this?
- Biofreak0
word. i am a gibson man, but epiphones are the crap of the company.
Yamaha acoustics generally do have a nice, thick and full bodied sound. relativly inexpensive as well. good call mitsu. i forgot that brand.
though there are several more than havent been named here. not that it matters. there are as many brand names as there are cereals. =)
- AD0
thanks guys
She's never played before but has talked about wanting one for awhile now.
she knows as much as I do about guitars (zip) -it's a real starter guitar - it could turn out like when I took karate and all the countless other hobbies I thought I'd enjoy but gave up for whatever reason - but I know she'll be happy with the gift
k thanks again
- frow0
You'll not find a Martin in that price range. As for acoustics, Yamaha actually makes some nice ones in that price range.
- Biofreak0
a used martin could pretty easily be found i would think. =)
but frow may be right as far as new ones go. im not sure off the top of my shiny bald head what the going prices are for martins.
- kreydle0
SEAGAUL SEAGAUL SEAGAUL
for the money you can't play any better...its about 350.00 or 400.00 for a good acoustic or acoustic/electric
- kreydle0
*seagull
- breeding0
definately bring someone who plays along, i would suggest looking at some used guitars, you can find something really nice in that price range.... oh and you're all dreaming if you think you'll get a martin in that range, i just had mine appraised at $5800.
- trebor0
shieee... there are plenty of epiphones out there that sounds and play way better than a gibson. I own 3 acoustic guitars, a old martin, a gibson and that epiphone. In sweden it's imposibble to find a gibson or martin that dosent cost a fortune. She is also a beginner, I just thought It might be good to bye a guitar thats cheap, and still sound fairly good??