How old were you when you picked your first guitar up and what kind was it?

[duhvoodooman***]

My first was a total POS Kay acoustic with an action so high you could fly a small airplane under the strings and not hit the body. Sunburst finish, I remember. I was 15, and the first song I learned the chords to was Louie Louie, mostly 'cuz Smoke on the Water hadn't been written yet! LOL!! After that, I had an Epiphone acoustic for a while, then sold that and bought a Guild flattop that I had for several years; nice guitar. I didn't get my first electric until I got out of college and started working--an antique white Strat with a maple neck; real Hendrix-y guitar. Too bad I couldn't play like him!

[Plank_Spanker]

12 years old when I bought my first guitar, a Framus Jazzmaster copy. I played the hell out of this guitar for years before I moved on..............


...........................and I still own it:

[Brian Krashpad]

I was probably about 12 or 13 (back in the early 1970's), and the guitar was my Dad's no-name MIJ acoustic. He had a rule for us kids: anyone who learns to play one of his intruments, he gives it to that kid. In my middle school they had a guitar class you could take as an elective, but I'd already started teaching myself with a Mel Bay book and a little help from my Dad (who is primarily a banjo player), so it was an easy "A."

I wanted to repeat the course, but the rule for those electives was before you could take guitar a second quarter or semester (can't remember which), you had to first take the other two insruments offered. So I took guitar, and then recorder, and then keyboard.

Then I took guitar again! Both times in the guitar class they just sat me out in the hall with a couple stoner kids who were way better than I, and they taught me stuff.

[djmcconnell]

When I was about 3 or 4, my mom let me play her guitar laying across my lap. In 3rd grade, I got my own no-name classical guitar and took lessons for about 2 years from a cool hippie guy named Michele.

After that, I pretty much only tinkered with the guitar until my wife bought me my Takamine in 1984 so I could sing and play at a friend's wedding (the Paul Stookey "Wedding Song." Yecch!) I put a pickup on it and it's my only acoustic guitar.

I only took the guitar out once or twice a year after that to let our kids play and to noodle around.

I started playing again in earnest almost 3 years ago when my youngest went off to college. I've been playing constantly since then, taking lessons on and off (back on now) and playing with our church worship band.

I love the guitar — it's officially my passion.

[street music]

I'm too old to remember that, I was very young , it was an acoustic of some sort that's been about 47 years ago.

[riverrick]

Think I was 11 or 12. Had a plastic Roy Rogers guitar I think it had nylon strings. Then one year my Dad got me a cheapie electric (Sorrento). I was hooked after that.

[M29]

Hey K! I was 16 and the git was a 59 I think, Les Paul Junior.

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[va1cho]

16 years old and play on really oldest guitar from my dad.He play on this guitar before 50 years.Now i play on Ibanez guitar and i want Ibanez JEM7V guitar :P

[Brian Krashpad]

16 years old and play on really oldest guitar from my dad.He play on this guitar before 50 years.Now i play on Ibanez guitar and i want Ibanez JEM7V guitar :P

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Welcome.

[kidsmoke*]

At 34(2003), on an Alvarez laminated/solid top acoustic I had purchased years earlier from a co-worker for my son. Action was high, but the first three frets were playable. The kid never picked it up.

I had always wanted to play, but was somehow convinced it would be far too difficult. I was just looking for a challenge. I had also given him an easy Complete Beatles song book. Worked my way through "Let it be" and was hooked. Now this is the "music room"



turn 180 degrees

[syo***]

Nice comfortable space you have there Tio Kimo (and infinitely cleaner than my own). Sounds like buying that guitar for your son was the best gift you could have given yourself!

[bigG]

13. Was a Gibson SG (cherry red). My parents had bought it for my brother and he never touched it. I was taking accordion lessons and learning theory and standards (Satin Doll, In The Mood, etc...) at the time The Beatles hit, so I drug out my brother's guitar, bought a Beatles song book, taught myself basic cowboy chords from the diagrams in that book, and it's never ended. (Needless to say the accordion was soon sold to finance my first bass [a Framus - violin Hofner knock-off] and amp [a Standell half-stack - well, a head and cab, anyway] so I could join my first band, that happened to need a bass player, not another guitarist. The rest is alot of history in my own mind...)

I was WAY lucky to have had a VERY nice guitar to learn on!