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Choosing Your First Acoustic Guitar

How do you choose the right guitar for you?  Which are the wrong ones?  The wrong one can become a headache and give you a finger ache! selecting the correct acoustic for you can be tough especially with so many to choose from.

Acoustic guitar bodies have generally the same shape with frequent variations, the size can vary, as well as the color, wood type along with some other features.

Guitars are in general a wide range of prices, and it has to be said when buying instruments of any kind in general you get what you pay for. So bear in mind when making your purchase there can be a difference between a real bargain and just buying something terrible.
New or used?  A couple of things to think over: Buying new gives a warranty, if you are not pleased with your purchase or something goes wrong, you can take it back. Usually a used guitar should be cheaper to buy than a comparable new one and it has had its ‘break-in’ time so any problems should have been dealt with.

An understanding of some of the guitar parts will help when choosing your guitar purchase

The body. This is best described as the big part with the hole in the front. The place where you pick or strum the strings.  The body can vary in type of wood, shape, size, coating and general build all this affects how the guitar sounds. Whether it’s a warm rich sound or even, a twang-like thin sound! It also is the area that gets scratched or damaged the most.  

The Neck: This is the long part extending from the body which ends at the headstock. The front side of the neck is called the fingerboard or fretboard.  The headstock contains the tuning heads and posts also called the machine heads.

The bridge: The bridge is fixed to the body adjacent to the sound hole but on the opposite side to the neck. The bridge is a kind of anchor point for the strings. On acoustic guitars the bridges can be made from hard plastic, wood or sometimes metal. The guitar strings are stretched over the bridge across the sound hole and fretboard finishing at the tuning heads at the headstock.

The strings are then wound round the tuning posts which are part of the tuning heads. The tuning heads are turned by hand making the strings tighter or looser to affect their tuning

The fretboard is glued onto the front of the neck. The fretboard is a piece of wood embedded with metal frets, the wood used to make the fretboard normally differs from the wood in the rest of the neck. This is the place where you press down on the strings to form chords or play individual notes. The height/distance between the strings and the fretboard affects the playability of the guitar. If the distance is large it is called a high action making it very painful to press the strings down and perhaps hurting the players’ fingers.

The strings:  Acoustic guitar strings vary they can be a polymer composition, such as nylon and fluorocarbon, or you can have steel strings these are quite often alloys joining steel, nickel or bronze. Nylon strings are usually easier on the fingertips when you are a beginner!

No matter where  you buy your guitar, if you spend extra diligence in your shopping girded with as much information as you can your resulting purchase, will be all the more enjoyable, easier on the fingers and  perhaps even your ears!

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