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Craigslist is EVIL!! I wasn't even in the market for a guitar- but then I saw this one. It's a Yamaha 'Silent Guitar'. I think it has been discussed in the forums before, but in case you missed it, here's Yamaha's link:
http://www.yamaha.co.jp/english/product ... index.html

My main issue with practicing was that I couldn't play at home after about 9pm because I'd keep my daughter up. This guitar was my answer.

It's basically behaves like an acoustic-electric guitar, with a few differences. I can plug headphones directly into the body and hear perfectly. It sounds just like an unplugged electric to others in the room. Or I can plug into an amp and hear it without headphones.

Lastly (and amazingly), it has an aux-in. I can plug a headphone-out of my laptop into the aux-in and hear both the laptop and my guitar playing through the headphones! The guitar is my mixer. Any hour- day or night- and I won't be disturbing anyone.

Pretty cool IMHO.

Will upload my own vid soon- but here's Yamaha's demo of it on youtube:


**Edit - If you're interested, I uploaded a demo of my playing the guitar about 1/2 way down this page.

Hope you weren't too uncomfortable sleeping in the car last night!


Looks cool, Al. Congratulations!

suziko wrote:

Hope you weren't too uncomfortable sleeping in the car last night!


Looks cool, Al. Congratulations!

Yes, Suzi. I didn't go into the whole 'getting another guitar past my wife' thing.

I actually think she's all for NOT hearing me practice or play, so it's a win-win!!

:laugh:

I tried one out Al. Not bad at all. Now you can be alone in your room without even being there.

Hey Al,How cool is that.I cant wait to here you show it off.Looks like alot of fun,Enjoy.

Kevin

Man, that thing sounds awesome, Al. Congratulations. I'm now officially in lust mode.

This is entirely too cool!!! When I purchased my piano, there were many reasons to go electric, but the main reason was that I can practice with headphones on and no one else can hear me. I hope your wife will video you singing away to a tune that none of the rest of us can hear! That could be priceless.....
In other news, I started this site with three guitars, and now I am up to 4, and desperate to win the contest so I can have 5.... it just never ends.

dennisg wrote:

Man, that thing sounds awesome, Al. Congratulations. I'm now officially in lust mode.

Don't know if I want to be responsible for putting you in lust-mode, Dennis..

Hope my next upload doesn't put you over the top! I just did a quick demo of it- will be here in a minute.

Here's a quick demo of the one I bought. I've been meaning to post this anyways.. not as a student review video.. but as a response to D_dog's post on Sister Golden Hair. I made a couple of suggestions on how to change the song up a bit in his great version of it. I play those suggestions in this version-- albeit not amazingly.




** I just watched that back. Gotta say it's so weird being able to see the railing pickets THROUGH the guitar!!

Very cool Al, Ihave messed around with these at music stores but could not talk the wife into it ! HOW DID YOU DO IT ? WHATS YOUR SECRET !
Also looks like you are getting bar chords down, good job.

Mark