Tim K
I have cerebral palsy which limits my range of motion, but currently can play a left handed epiphone dot, I really want to start playing an acoustic guitar but have only been able to find full body acoustics that are lefty. so what is the thinnest acoustic guitar that I can get for left handed play?
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It may not be the thickness of the guitar that's the biggest problem. Have you tried some of the orchestra/auditorium models which have a smaller body than a dreadnought? If money isn't a concern I was recently looking at BlackBird guitars because I saw an ad for them in a magazine. They are carbon fiber and weigh about 3 pounds. They have a few different models, but their biggest is still just an orchestra size. They're about $2000 though, so I stopped looking at them! But there are a lot of "travel" acoustic guitars out there like the Martin Backpacker. They don't sound as nice as a full size guitar, but are certainly playable and small. Yamaha APX guitars are pretty thin too and Yamaha makes good guitars for the money if you're on a tighter budget. The best thing to do is get out to a music store and try a bunch out if you can. Even if they don't stock left handed models you can just flip a righty over to see how it feels and then order a left-handed one if you find something you like. Good luck.
It may not be the thickness of the guitar that's the biggest problem. Have you tried some of the orchestra/auditorium models which have a smaller body than a dreadnought? If money isn't a concern I was recently looking at BlackBird guitars because I saw an ad for them in a magazine. They are carbon fiber and weigh about 3 pounds. They have a few different models, but their biggest is still just an orchestra size. They're about $2000 though, so I stopped looking at them! But there are a lot of "travel" acoustic guitars out there like the Martin Backpacker. They don't sound as nice as a full size guitar, but are certainly playable and small. Yamaha APX guitars are pretty thin too and Yamaha makes good guitars for the money if you're on a tighter budget. The best thing to do is get out to a music store and try a bunch out if you can. Even if they don't stock left handed models you can just flip a righty over to see how it feels and then order a left-handed one if you find something you like. Good luck.
I found a really exquisite guitar barely within my price range, but there is no pickup...?
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It's a Michael Kelly Trio Rose. It sounds beautiful, and he agrees, but one of the things my dad thinks is really important for my guitar is to have a pickup for gigging. What should I do?
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This is an acoustic guitar, yes?
There are numerous after-market pick-ups available for installation in those acoustic guitars which lack one. Some of them just sit in the soundhole and require no special knowledge or tools to put in. Others require the skill and patience of an experienced guitar tech...and there's the question of how much one wants to spend, to install a first-class pick-up into what might be only a mediocre guitar...
and many of the newer guitars, which come with one built in, also have valuable tone-shaping tools on-board which can make a HUGE difference when the guitar starts to feed back...as acoustic guitars tend to do under certain conditions...it might be worth your while to consider this and go with a guitar which is already set up for the long run.
but Sunrise, Barcus-Berry, Fishman...they and many others make such pick-ups...see MUSICIAN's FRIEND.com for some ideas. Go to HARMONY CENTRAL.com and search the owner's reviews, by manufacturer, for the pick-ups in which you may be interested...does an artist whose work you admire, and whose tunes you might play, use a particular brand?...could be a good starting point...will you be going solo?..or is there some possibility that you'll be more in a group thing, maybe competing with a keyboard or drums?
but THEN you need an amp...where will you be gigging?...the bedroom, or small clubs?...the garage or good sized halls?...the local poetry jam?
Some folks just put a microphone in front of the guitar and let the PA system, assuming the venue has one, carry the weight... that minimizes the amount of gear you have to hump around...if you really start gigging, and you are your own roadie, you'll find out quickly what an advantage this could be...if you're just starting out and DAD has to be the roadie...?...think about it.
MOST IMPORTANT: you like THIS guitar?...it's more than just "cute" and REALLY REALLY sounds great (compared to how many? you'd be surprised how much of a difference there can be between different guitars, even when they're otherwise exactly the same...) and you find it comfortable to play? The price is right? AND you've got a good case for it, yes? Don't scrimp and not get a case...you can't gig without one and the guitar deserves one if you REALLY love it that much
Realize that the vast majority of people who pick up the guitar will lose interest in a matter of weeks...as every guitar teacher (and every parent facing the after-Christmas bills for the guitar-which-sits-unplayed-in-the-corner) will tell you, enthusiasm tends to drop off dramatically when one has to start remembering the names of the strings and how to tune them...and good lessons aren't cheap... ALWAYS practice with a metronome!!!
If your dad has reason to think you're actually going to stick with it, he might be right...maybe you're a poet in the making and putting your thoughts to music is the path with heart...someday, somewhere, it will have to be loud enough to cover a crowd of people who are more interested in their food, or their drinks, or whatever inconsequential blather they think will impress their date...
THAT's when you want the glory of your instrument and the quality of your music to stop 'em in their tracks...the more you put your stuff out there, the more you'll learn.
This is an acoustic guitar, yes?
There are numerous after-market pick-ups available for installation in those acoustic guitars which lack one. Some of them just sit in the soundhole and require no special knowledge or tools to put in. Others require the skill and patience of an experienced guitar tech...and there's the question of how much one wants to spend, to install a first-class pick-up into what might be only a mediocre guitar...
and many of the newer guitars, which come with one built in, also have valuable tone-shaping tools on-board which can make a HUGE difference when the guitar starts to feed back...as acoustic guitars tend to do under certain conditions...it might be worth your while to consider this and go with a guitar which is already set up for the long run.
but Sunrise, Barcus-Berry, Fishman...they and many others make such pick-ups...see MUSICIAN's FRIEND.com for some ideas. Go to HARMONY CENTRAL.com and search the owner's reviews, by manufacturer, for the pick-ups in which you may be interested...does an artist whose work you admire, and whose tunes you might play, use a particular brand?...could be a good starting point...will you be going solo?..or is there some possibility that you'll be more in a group thing, maybe competing with a keyboard or drums?
but THEN you need an amp...where will you be gigging?...the bedroom, or small clubs?...the garage or good sized halls?...the local poetry jam?
Some folks just put a microphone in front of the guitar and let the PA system, assuming the venue has one, carry the weight... that minimizes the amount of gear you have to hump around...if you really start gigging, and you are your own roadie, you'll find out quickly what an advantage this could be...if you're just starting out and DAD has to be the roadie...?...think about it.
MOST IMPORTANT: you like THIS guitar?...it's more than just "cute" and REALLY REALLY sounds great (compared to how many? you'd be surprised how much of a difference there can be between different guitars, even when they're otherwise exactly the same...) and you find it comfortable to play? The price is right? AND you've got a good case for it, yes? Don't scrimp and not get a case...you can't gig without one and the guitar deserves one if you REALLY love it that much
Realize that the vast majority of people who pick up the guitar will lose interest in a matter of weeks...as every guitar teacher (and every parent facing the after-Christmas bills for the guitar-which-sits-unplayed-in-the-corner) will tell you, enthusiasm tends to drop off dramatically when one has to start remembering the names of the strings and how to tune them...and good lessons aren't cheap... ALWAYS practice with a metronome!!!
If your dad has reason to think you're actually going to stick with it, he might be right...maybe you're a poet in the making and putting your thoughts to music is the path with heart...someday, somewhere, it will have to be loud enough to cover a crowd of people who are more interested in their food, or their drinks, or whatever inconsequential blather they think will impress their date...
THAT's when you want the glory of your instrument and the quality of your music to stop 'em in their tracks...the more you put your stuff out there, the more you'll learn.
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