My Dad was a guitar player. I should say he was a musician. Without any training, he taught himself how to play. Mostly he played bluegrass music, but he could listen to whatever 70's rock I was listening to at the time and play it. I didn't get his musical ability; my talent is acting. Dad has been gone for nine years and his Martin D28 that was to be given to me and the Martin I bought him for his 65th birthday was to go to my brother. My brother sold them both. Oh well. I became unemployed and had been wanting to learn to play so I put it out on Facebook that I was looking for an inexpensive acoustic. Not a day later a good friend stopped by with one. I had Black Bart tuned and he has been on my dining room table. Still looking for work, but I am ready to dive into learning to play. Here goes..........
Newbie from Pittsburgh
Hi there and welcome.
What a shame about the D28. That’s pretty much a collectors item. Anyway have fun and good luck with the lessons.
Hey Robin,
Practice enough and perhaps GT Admin will hire you as an instructor here š
My parents bought me my first guitar 51 years ago when I was 10. It was a Dreadnought and that was way too big for me. I could barely reach the strings. To make matters worse, I wasn't very motivated or focused at that age and therefore quickly gave up trying to play it. Nevertheless, I kept the guitar and had been schlepping it around the world for the past half century purely for sentimental reasons and not because I ever considered that it might be worth something.
A few months ago I came across it while rummaging through our packed basement. I pulled it out of the case and was blown away to discover that it was a Martin D-28 in excellent condition. I carried it upstairs and showed my wife that I now owned a vintage guitar. On my way back down the basement stairs....yep, I stumbled and fell on the guitar, breaking the neck clean off and collapsing half the body.š¤¬
Sascha
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OH, you didn't think that the story was over did you, Robin? Last week I decided to sell my $4,000 Gibson SJ-200 guitar. I was carrying it outside to get some pictures in the sun and....yep, here we go again.... I tripped on the front stairs and turned that thing into a pile of expensive kindling and wires.
My point is, buy yourself a hard case to protect Bart. Also, there's something worse than being unemployed -> being unemployed and clumsy.
Sascha
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