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duwen -> Help finding a guitar (Mar. 25 2009 4:37:56)
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Hello
(This is my very first post at these forums. I am excited[8D])
OK, For years, since early 1990s, I have had guitar. It is am Encore, semi-acoustic, roundbacked steel-stringed guitar. But I am afraid to say that it has hampered my progress learning guitar severely (as has my lack of initiative to do something much earlier about this problem. There are reasons for that too personal to go into here)
For one, the action was too high, so I find it hard to barre chords. And the steel strings were hard on fingers. So to cut a long sstory short, I ended up staying at top? of neck near strings, and became a strummer, and feeling a block about what i am doing etc.;
As I have c9ome online and been inspired by watching great guitarists playing on free videos, and all the guitar lessons help (MUCH better than any books , in my popinion), I am now greatly inspired to now at las try and really learn what playing a guitar is really about.
I telephoned our town's main instrument supplier, and said I was complete beginner and told him about the existing guitar problems, and that I was very much interested in Flamenco. He recommended the Santos Martinez SM 80 Classical guitar. And it is relatively cheap at £130 (well a lot to me, as I dont have much money, but I Am beginner)
I asked him if he had Flamenco guitars, and he said they were really Classical guitars with some special features?
I have also learned from some YOutube guitar contacts that the action on Flamenco guitars is lower than Classical guitars (an idea VERY seductive for me, who has suffered high action for 'ever')--Another person told me they had played Flamenco in Andalucia and many of the real good players there prefered cheap guitars...?
But I have had avice to contact Flamenco and/or Classical musicians and makers about this before rushing out in desperation and buying a guitar. This is main reason I have joined these forums.
Can you help please?
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