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P.S. My oldest guitar is a '64/'65 Epiphone Riviera I bought brand new. Yup. My age is showing. :>}
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What is so attractive about a guitar? It’s a very easy instrument to learn (but very difficult to master).
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I used to go to those shows quite regularly and have bought and sold thousands of guitars there and elsewhere. Since the 70’s.
It just doesn’t quite grab me the way it used to. Oh sure, the older ones I used to drool over, I still can drool over. But my reaction isn’t “I want that”. I’ve sold all but one of vintage collection. I hate to say it, but excluding the vibe and probably excluding some of the pickup character (for electrics) an electric guitar is largely a mechanical device and a new one will fret 100x better, stay in tune 100x better, and not give you a heart attack should you bring it out to play somewhere.
I have owned and played both 6 and 12 string acoustic archtops, with picks. I’ve owned all wood and a few of those Applause/Ovation style pieces too.
I have a respect for those, like the late Michael Hedges, who could play a harp guitar.
Michael Hedges : ‘because it’s there’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN3439l4HR0
I have played a lute, a time or two.
In these days, with all the ‘other tunings’ now found to work, I have enjoyed a few folks’ work on dobros, or those who have used ‘bottleneck slides’.
Why to own? As for acoustics, anything from Classical guitar forward, you can make them do a lot, let yourself go as you feel out what strings and frets come to your hands, with the smiles, or tears that come along too, with or without sheet music.
I’ve never touched an electric guitar because that amplifier/foot pedal sound thing isn’t as real as it was, with me, the guitar, and a quiet room in my house. Maybe a zen thing, huh?
I wish I still had my 3/4 Gibson Melody Maker from the 60’s, it’s worth some money now.