Posts Tagged ‘acoustic guitars’
Monday, November 9th, 2009
The Loar is a company that pays homage to the instruments from the 1920’s and 30’s, an age of outstanding craftsmanship and innovative design. Designed by Greg Rich, The Loar combines expert craftsmanship and classic designs with upgraded features to appeal to today’s players. And they do it at an affordable price for everyone.
Today they announced they are reintroducing the Loar LH-200, a small bodied acoustic designed for blues playing. Check it out.
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Monday, December 1st, 2008
As Brian reported yesterday, once kids have started playing guitar hero they are ready to move onto a real guitar. And while your kids may be young to really understand this now, a real guitar provides a lot of advantages over Guitar Hero. For starters, I’m not sure how many guys have gotten girls by playing Guitar Hero while playing a real guitar can even make Michael Cera seem cool. If I had spent more time on the guitar and less playing Intellivision in my youth, things might have turned out differently.
The acoustic guitar is a good one to start. It isn’t too loud, doesn’t need to be plugged in (i.e., environmentally friendly) and doesn’t require an amplifier (a frightening word for parents). Also, while it is tempting to get the cheapest kid’s guitar available at Amazon, the cheapest option won’t stay in tune and will probably warp at the neck - raising the strings and making it unplayable. Accordingly, we’re focusing here on steel string guitars in the $99 to $299 range that will last over time. We want your kid to be an acoustic guitar hero.
So, just in time for the holidays, here is our list of the Top 5 Acoustic Guitars for kids.
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Tags: acoustic, acoustic guitars, acoustic guitars for kids, Guitars, kids, Martin, starter acoustic guitar, Taylor, yamaha
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
I was in Durham, North Carolina for a major event for a friend from school (OK, it was his son’s Bar Mitzvah; there, I said it). While there, a friend and I decided we wanted to jam a little but neither of us had our guitars with us. And yet, jam we did.
After a quick search in the local yellow pages (yes, some people still use these), we wandered into High Strung Violins and Guitars. Boy are we glad we did. High Strung stocks a great variety of guitars from Blueridge, Breedlove, Larrivee, Crafter, Michael Kelly and Gianinni (along with a number of harps, mandolins, ukuleles, violins and upright basses). My friend Frank and I asked if they minded if we played a couple. “As long as you are careful,” we heard. We were (mostly).
Frank and I chose Blueridge parlor guitars for our session. He picked a rosewood model and I picked one with mahogany. (Both sounded wonderful by the way.) I I thought we were just going to play a little but Frank immediately started singing along with his playing. Frankly, for the first 15 seconds I wasn’t sure how it was going to go.
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Tags: acoustic guitars, acoustic guitars durham north carolina, durham, durham north carolina, guitars durham north carolina, high strung violins & guitars
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