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Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 4:14 pm
Just found the web site today. I have looked around a teeny bit but not a bunch. Lets just get this out in the open. I am old. So when I say I usta have or usta could that was many winters ago.
I had an Epiphone sunburst in my youth that had the richest tone in any acoustic I had ever heard if you knocked out the Martins. I had started to learn the chords and could even hold a beat. I can read music because I was a band geek in HS so I was making a little headway. But I no longer have a guitar. I wound up selling it to make a bill payment less than a year of getting it. So thats that. Flash forward 35 years and here we are. I have always wanted to pick up the guitar again and learn to play. I regret selling that Epiphone at least once everys 6 months. So I am going to do something about it finally amd buy a new or new to me guitar.
One of the things I remember about the guitar was it had a wider neck. not a bunch but a little wider to allow my fat fingertips to press the right string without deadening the one next to it. I don't have long slender fingers but the one size fits most gloves never fit. too small.
I remember that bar chords were almost impossible to make though. Maybe weak untrained hands or maybe some function of the guitar itself. I actually worked in a Music store and we started carrying the Yamaha FG series guitars. This was in 78-80 time frame. I know they were around longer but we just started carrying them. Those guitars, for me, had a lighter action but the necks were too small for my fingers even though the callouses on my fingertips were beginning to form quite well. But I could make a decent bar chord on them.
So I'm looking for suggestions on a guitar. Maybe something came out in the last 35 years that will work for me. larger than average neck for fat fingertips and easy action for weak somewhat arthritic fingers. Well the thumbs are a little artritic. fingers might be OK. No cheap buy-it-in-the-box at wally world guitars but nothing to break the bank .300 could be ideal 400 would be pushing it at this time. I need to stay in a lower price range. I don't want to go high dollar and then find out that the problems i had earlier in my life are even worse because of the shape of my hands now and then have a guitar I can't play or sell without taking it in the shorts.
So any suggestions on what to look at. We only have a small music store in town so he only carries a couple at a time.
I had an Epiphone sunburst in my youth that had the richest tone in any acoustic I had ever heard if you knocked out the Martins. I had started to learn the chords and could even hold a beat. I can read music because I was a band geek in HS so I was making a little headway. But I no longer have a guitar. I wound up selling it to make a bill payment less than a year of getting it. So thats that. Flash forward 35 years and here we are. I have always wanted to pick up the guitar again and learn to play. I regret selling that Epiphone at least once everys 6 months. So I am going to do something about it finally amd buy a new or new to me guitar.
One of the things I remember about the guitar was it had a wider neck. not a bunch but a little wider to allow my fat fingertips to press the right string without deadening the one next to it. I don't have long slender fingers but the one size fits most gloves never fit. too small.
I remember that bar chords were almost impossible to make though. Maybe weak untrained hands or maybe some function of the guitar itself. I actually worked in a Music store and we started carrying the Yamaha FG series guitars. This was in 78-80 time frame. I know they were around longer but we just started carrying them. Those guitars, for me, had a lighter action but the necks were too small for my fingers even though the callouses on my fingertips were beginning to form quite well. But I could make a decent bar chord on them.
So I'm looking for suggestions on a guitar. Maybe something came out in the last 35 years that will work for me. larger than average neck for fat fingertips and easy action for weak somewhat arthritic fingers. Well the thumbs are a little artritic. fingers might be OK. No cheap buy-it-in-the-box at wally world guitars but nothing to break the bank .300 could be ideal 400 would be pushing it at this time. I need to stay in a lower price range. I don't want to go high dollar and then find out that the problems i had earlier in my life are even worse because of the shape of my hands now and then have a guitar I can't play or sell without taking it in the shorts.
So any suggestions on what to look at. We only have a small music store in town so he only carries a couple at a time.