For Those Of You Who Don't Play Acoustic Guitar...

[tabl10s]

why not? An acoustic gets me back to my roots and is more organic to me. My first was a $40 job with the second being a $100 rosewood dread then an Epi "hog" four years later.

When I got the Ovation Elite, it was less than 24 hours before I was headed to Korea and I just knew it was a great guitar(didn't sound anything like an acoustic). This was the guitar that sent me into my 17-year hiatus with a Larrivee LSV-11 bringing me back.

https://youtu.be/4hzzKe26uuU

 

[gball]

I don't (very often) because I don't have the same experience - meaning, acoustics don't get me back to my roots. My first guitar was an electric and that's all I ever had from the time I was 11 until I bought my first acoustic at the age of 30 because I needed one for a gig I was doing. I got rid of it after that gig (which lasted maybe 6 months) and didn't get another for 15 years, which I only wanted so I had something to noodle around with on the patio.

 

[sergiodeblanc]

I really don't care for steel-sting acoustic guitars because my roots are in nylons. :girl: I mean classical/flamenco guitars, not that my legs are in stockings.

 

[Huggy Love]

Bad disc & shoulder, almost stopped my playing altogether, slim elec hollowbodies and very light solid bodies are all I can do. I recently sold my Takamine classical & PRS sgl cut because of size & weight, gonna put that towards another HB or the lightest CU22 I can find. I do love (and now miss) the acoustic but it's not worth the aches & pains I get the next day, if I get another HB I'll make sure it has Piezo to get that sound cause my HB doesn't.

 

[CoreyT]

I learned on a Teisco electric back around 70 or so, and the only acoustics I played were very cheap nylon stringed ones in high school.
Getting my SE Angelus Standard a short time back was a good move on my part, I like it a lot, but I will always favor electrics.

 

[Bluesboy998]

My first guitar was a harmony acoustic strings 1inch off the fretboard then my father bought me a double cut les Paul special and I never looked back.But I have an angelus standard and I love playing that guitar especially late night when I can't sleep.

 

[sleary]

My daughter won't let me touch her Taylor but I do anyways lol

 

[tabl10s]

My daughter won't let me touch her Taylor but I do anyways lol

I hope she doesn't read this forum.

 

[gush]

I had an acoustic trio in the mid 90s. It was a kick ass group and I could get all the work we could handle. A couple months ago my old acoustic band mates came to one of our shows and we did a few songs while on break. It was very cool..

 

[PRSAK]

Cuz pinch harmonics, pick scrapes, and dive bombs just don't sound as cool on an acoustic! :rock:

 

[markintime]

I was barely in high school when my neighbor down the street introduced me to acoustics. This was in the middle 60's, folk music and hippie time. He was into country as well. My very first acoustic was a Sears Silvertone with a bolt-on neck which was good because the action was so high I had to shim the neck with several layers of aluminum foil just to get to where I could play it. It did one good thing: toughened my fingers. It was succeeded by a Harmony jumbo, which in turn was followed by a Yamaha FG 300 that had an adjustable bridge. I kept that one for a very long time until I gave it to my oldest son upon his graduation from high school. A few years later I got my Tacoma but didn't play it all that much. Life was in the way. This year my wife bought me my SE Angelus A10E. Both of these are a joy to play and suprisingly feel quite similar neck-wise. Tone-wise there is a difference, but that's how it's supposed to be, right? So when I feel in a finger-picking mood, I grab one of those, since that's what I know best. I am a newbie on the electrics, but that won't last long. I will keep and play both. And maybe, down the road, buy some more? Hahahahahaha....

 

[László]

I'm doing a thread-bomb because I do play acoustic and this thread is addressed to those who don't.

 

[rubalup]

I feel very strange with any acoustic. I own a couple cheapos but never really play them... I´m intending to just give those away because any time I have friends come over they just hand me the guitar and expect me to play and entertain... and I just suck on acoustic (I also suck on electric but the dirt confuse the audience)

 

[sleary]

I hope she doesn't read this forum.

Haha she does once in awhile and that's what makes me posting it so much fun lol

 

[ozboy]

Man I luv my Dudenbostel.

 

[CVS]

I am not a big fan of steel string acoustics because I can only play them in small doses (the thick strings really hurt my fingers - and I play at least 2 hours every day) and because I am not a vocalist who likes to strum chords while singing. With that said, I have for the past 2 years been learning how to play Bossa Nova and Samba type songs (using for the most part my PRS HB 1 which I use to play chords and do solos) , so now I am thinking I should get a nylon string acoustic. In the meantime I own a number of different electric guitars. The only acoustic guitar that I own is a Taylor GS Mini (IMHO - a bargain for the price)