What is the best acoustic guitar to get?
November 20th, 2009I’m starting out and I was going to go electric but someone told me it better to start with acoustic which makes sense. They are cheaper right ? So what acoustic guitar is best ? And how much do they cost ?
BQ – What kind of acoustic guitar did Johnny Cash use ?
BQ2 – Are Fender Acoustics any good ?
Johnny Cash played a variety of Martin dreadnoughts. Early in his career he played a D-28 and then later moved up to a D-45. Martin made him a custom black one and eventually made two Johnny Cash special editions, the D-35 and the D-42JC, both in black finish. The cheapest one of these is the plain D-28 and that’s $2,300.
Fender makes mediocre acoustic guitars in my opinion. They’re stamped out in some Chinese factory. In every batch there will be a very few good ones, a few terrible ones, and a bunch of mediocre ones. You’re better off with a Seagull, Ibanez, or Yamaha.
November 20th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
Well acoustics aren’t better to start out with just because of the price, they are slightly harder to play than an electric which makes for good practice in the future, second off the best acoustic guitars are Martin’s and Taylor’s, but you probably wouldn’t want to spend a lot of money on a high end guitar when starting out. Fender and Yamaha acoustic guitars are good to start out with since they are pretty cheap and play pretty well.
Oh and Johnny Cash used Martin guitars.
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been playing for almost 3 years
http://www.acousticguitar.com/issues/ag102/gear102.shtml
November 20th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
He usually played a Dreadnought-shaped Martin, which produces avery deep tone (to match his voice?).
Ashton guitars are incredibly cheap yet usually have a fantastic, bright tone, and a low action (the strings are close to the fretboard) making it pretty easy to play.
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4 years playing guitar.
November 20th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
Johnny Cash played a variety of Martin dreadnoughts. Early in his career he played a D-28 and then later moved up to a D-45. Martin made him a custom black one and eventually made two Johnny Cash special editions, the D-35 and the D-42JC, both in black finish. The cheapest one of these is the plain D-28 and that’s $2,300.
Fender makes mediocre acoustic guitars in my opinion. They’re stamped out in some Chinese factory. In every batch there will be a very few good ones, a few terrible ones, and a bunch of mediocre ones. You’re better off with a Seagull, Ibanez, or Yamaha.
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47 years professional acoustic guitarist