First guitar you ever PLAYED/HANDLED

bbill335

My dad's '94 usa standard strat was the first guitar I ever touched, and the first I enjoyed playing. My first guitar was a dearmond m65, a decent guitar fo £50 but a piece of shit by any other standard. I'm lucky that strat was around.

jeztone2

I have three older siblings. So my sisters Suzuki Classical, my brothers plywood LP copy, or his mates Shergold.
The first decent guitar I played was a Salmon Pink 62 Strat reissue in a local guitar shop when I was 12. I guess it was one of the early CBS reissues.

ICBM

Sleepyscholar said:

My brother's Eko Ranger. At the time I thought of it as 'ordinary' and a bit difficult to play. 25 years later, my brother still having the guitar, I had a strum on it and found it really sweet.

They can be, and don't deserve their generally poor reputation. They also have a big advantage in that both the bridge and neck angle are easily adjustable, so unless something is warped it's always possible to make them quite playable.

I've probably written more songs on my singer's one than any other single guitar. It's just inspirational for some reason.

Brize

adamm82 said:

My dad had a Lado guitar from late 70's early 80s. that was made in Canada that he used to keep in the case behind the sofa. 

Iron Maiden used Lado guitars for a short time in the mid-80s.

Sesh

The first guitar I held was an 3/4 acoustic my dad had in the loft. No one in the house knew how to tune it, and the steel strings were black and probably 20 years old. Action at the 12th fret was about 4mm. The nut was wood, the frets were brass, the bridge was moveable and looking back now, clearly in the wrong place. One of the black tuning pegs had fallen off had been replaced with a rough cut piece of white nylon. Unsurprisingly it didn't inspire me at the time, but later at Uni I got taught a few chords on a squier strat, so armed with new strings and an electronic tuner I went back to that old acoustic. It was not a good guitar, but it was better than no guitar. It's in my loft now in a bin bag. It's tempting to see how bad it plays now...

xDottore

Yamaha FG180. In 1976. Really very good acoustic for very little money. I loved that guitar, but my mum (who suffered from certain mental health issues) threw it out of the window in a fit of rage one day and it was utterly destroyed.  ;-(

musicman100

My fathers early 60s gretsch white falcon.

I remember dragging it around the garden as kids. Ha ha ha

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