What guitar did you learn to play on?

[CTN]

Re: What guitar did you learn to play on?

an Aria classical guitar.

loved it, and it's the reason I still love wide fretboards. Don't have it anymore though. It took a tumble down a flight of stairs and the back caved in.

After that I got a my '62RI MIJ Strat, which I still have, albeit heavily modified.

 

[Gamera]

Re: What guitar did you learn to play on?

The second one from the left in this pic. A modified 1985 Aria Pro II RS Series. I had a couple cheap acoustics before this but nothing I took seriously. This is the one I learned on and used exclusively for about 15 years.

 

[sosomething]

Re: What guitar did you learn to play on?

My first actual guitar which I owned was a black Squier strat my dad bought me when I was 13. Never looked back.

 

[iismet]

Re: What guitar did you learn to play on?

Decca Acoustic

 

[formula73]

Re: What guitar did you learn to play on?

A piece of crap like this. Plywood body, bolt neck, and I haven't figured out how, but the frets actually had cracks running the length of the metal. The pickups were just 2 coils, glued together.

After that, I moved on to one of these. I bought it for 100 with a broken hs but this was when Victor Litz Music in MD had just bought out most of the Kramer plant and I picked up a 3 pc 'American' neck for $75:

 

[FuseG4]

Re: What guitar did you learn to play on?

ibanez GRX40.

 

[skyydogg01]

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ibanez GRX40.

Same here. Mine was black and I put a JB in it a year after I got it. A good guitar. I miss mine. My godchild has it now.

 

[IMENATOR]

Re: What guitar did you learn to play on?

My dad bougth a spanish style acoustic guitar for my brother's music class at school. He droped guitar and tried something else and I immediatly kidnaped that guitar and had it with me for about 6 years.

After that I got my first electric guitar, a MIM Ritchie Sambora Standard Strat HSS with original FloydRose and DiMarzio PAF!!! I still own that guitar and I placed JB and Jazz on it.

 

[IanBallard]

Re: What guitar did you learn to play on?

The one I still play, after 40 custom revisions.

 

[walkdmc]

Re: What guitar did you learn to play on?

I was spoiled...the first electric I ever played and the one i learned on was my uncle's les paul custom (from the 70s..) which he lent me when I expressed interested in learning how to play. basically this guitar...

6 months later I had saved enough to get my own guitar...a blue fender hwy1 strat. I remember the first time I changed the strings on it and the bridge went flush against the body, I freaked out....those were the days.

first song I learned was walk don't run by the ventures....followed closely by wipeout...how bout you guys?

 

[lpmarshall]

Re: What guitar did you learn to play on?

Alvarez acoustic. Still in my music room tuned to open G.

 

[Tor]

Re: What guitar did you learn to play on?

Well, I learned the basics with mom's nylon stringed guitar, but I progressed further with a Cort acoustic and a black humbucker-equipped Squier. Had a good time with those..

 

[formula73]

Re: What guitar did you learn to play on?

I notice that there is a LOT more guitar to be had on the super-cheap entry level scene, these days, than there were 20 or 30 years ago. There certainly seems to be less plywood.

 

[Vengeance]

Re: What guitar did you learn to play on?

I notice that there is a LOT more guitar to be had on the super-cheap entry level scene, these days, than there were 20 or 30 years ago. There certainly seems to be less plywood.

and about 1000 times nicer.

 

[Jackson Distortion]

Re: What guitar did you learn to play on?

It was a crap Kaye acoustic. But, I played, oh yes, I played. :approve:

 

[jake_xms3_punk]

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one of these

and something like this

 

[blueman335]

Re: What guitar did you learn to play on?

I notice that there is a LOT more guitar to be had on the super-cheap entry level scene, these days, than there were 20 or 30 years ago. There certainly seems to be less plywood.

Import guitars these days, entry level and mid-priced, are head and shoulders above the crap that was sold a few decades ago, when I started playing.

 

[KeeperOS]

Re: What guitar did you learn to play on?

The summer I graduated high-school I borrowed my cousin's black low-end Yamaha Pacifica for a week. Certainly wasn't enough to learn the guitar, but it was plenty enough to get me hooked.

So, next Christmas I went to a music shop and bought this:

The amp's been long gone (lent and never returned, figures) but the Strat is still around, although now looking like this :

 

[formula73]

Re: What guitar did you learn to play on?

Import guitars these days, entry level and mid-priced, are head and shoulders above the crap that was sold a few decades ago, when I started playing.

They sure are. These days, for electrics, people can pick up perfectly playable Squiers, LTDs, and Ibbys for 200 or less. Back then, it was plywood Hondos or Teiscos with mile-high action and screeching pickups. I know you're older than I am, but there was a LOT of that stuff left over in the late 80s/early 90s, floating around guitar shops that sold used.

 

[Left_Hand_Strat]

Re: What guitar did you learn to play on?

An encore acoustic guitar for me... you guys aint ever seen a pic of it... I will get one done someday... been beaten up, chips and dinks all in it, but I love it, even to this day, it sounds nice, now that I have had it since easter 2003, the wood is starting to slowly lose the moisture in the chamber so it is getting a nice tone. also a bit reminiscent of something Curt cobain would play.....

Electric wise, I got a Squier Affinity, yes, the affinity.... Personally call it Sunrise myself due to an obvious reason.... it took me four years to get hold of an electric guitar. It was in 1007 that i got the guitar, and she was manufactures in June 2007. I love that guitar, and always will, hence why I will never sell her.