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SolaresLarrave

SolaresLarrave

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I've been looking for a nice, inexpensive acoustic guitar and this evening I won an auction of an Ibanez guitar, with gig bag and new strings.

It won't replace my Guild, which cracked in the middle of winter about a year ago, but it will be a nice instrument to play and practice.

Sure enough... I'm very happy with the purchase because it turned out to be pretty inexpensive. What else can one ask for on a Friday evening? :D

Skills, perhaps? :confused:

Nah... I'm happy with the guitar. It's a good one, will sound good (many have spoken to me very highly about these guitars) and if it sounds well, I'll practice more and get a little better too! :)

Thanks for your patience! ;)
 
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Nice addition. All this guitar talk is making me wonder why I don't drag my Washburn out of the cupboard. I'm no guitarist but it might keep me away from this damned computer! :D
 
You have a Washburn guitar? Didn't you know they're made in Chicago, IL? Or at least that they started in this neck of the woods? I was contemplating one fo theirs, but the store didn't call me and I stumbled upon this auction instead.

a solid top Ibanez acoustic?
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Yep. The model is GA7, probably a solid top. Not rosewood, though, but at least the fretboard won't stain my fingers like my teacher's guitar does to his.

Now, let's strum our stuff! :)
 
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played a nice Larrivee acoustic guitar at 12th Fret in Toronto recently.
wonderfull canadian made guitar.
 
Larrivee... <loooooong sigh>

Never touched one in my life. They look precious, though. And cost an arm and a leg too!

What do you play?
 
I don't know where my Guild is made, but the Ibanez GA7 comes from China.

I also have a steel string guitar from Romania. :)
 
China is making some nice guitars now.
check out Eastman guitars for some lovely jazz boxes.
 
That makes me feel better... although, now that I remember, my very first gutar was a Yamaha. It had a nice, warm sound, but not as warm as my Guild.

I just got some additional information about the Ibanez: it's a spruce top, with sides and back in rosewood and mahogany fretboard.

The instrument will be shipped sometime next week. I guess I can wait, but it'll take a lot of patience. :)
 
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You have a Washburn guitar? Didn't you know they're made in Chicago, IL? Or at least that they started in this neck of the woods? I was contemplating one fo theirs, but the store didn't call me and I stumbled upon this auction instead.



Yep. The model is GA7, probably a solid top. Not rosewood, though, but at least the fretboard won't stain my fingers like my teacher's guitar does to his.

Now, let's strum our stuff! :)
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I think my Washburn is made in Japan .. I bought it about twenty years ago. I have just remembered why I stopped playing it ... I took it to a guitar tech to get the action lightened and it came back fu**ed! I hope he rots in hell! :p
 
Guitar talk, great .... my second hobby after photography. I have a steel string Taylor, solid forn and back, a 12 string Ibanez just the solid top and several Spanish made concert guitars, as classical guitar practitioner...
 
Francisco

I've owned a lot of acoustic guitars in my time ranging from the high end to the low end... one of the best I ever owned was an Ibanez. I had to cull my collection (I had about 15 guitar at one point) and unfortunately I decided to cull the Ibanez along with a top-end Yamaha acoustic (when they were seriously aiming for Martin's market) Big mistake. Ibanez is one of the better Japanese designers, regardless of where the instrument is made.

You can see pictures of a unique vault back acoustic made by a UK luthier called David Reid in the guitar pictures section of my web site.

Enjoy your guitar..... I don't know which is better ..... making music or taking pictures.....

LouisB
 
Guitars used to be my GAS problem. Most are now gone to pay for cameras. Had around 14 at one time - from high end Taylors (Brazilian 814, 910), to Gibson (black LP cistom), PRS (custom 22 with birds etc), Fender (strat plus and custom shop), Tom Anderson (cobra), Parker Fly Classic, Fender and Line 6 amps. In the end I kept just two guitars - my favourite player (Taylor Big Baby) - really quite cheap and an Ovation '86 collectors (one I've had the longest). Still play, but just for my own pleasure.
 
it could be a sub section for the Off Topic, there seems to be a lot of guitar lovers here on the RFF.
 
As you might have guessed from my handle I too have a musical streak- several guitars- a Gretsch acoustic (korean) that is finally broken in and sounding great, a yamaha FG330 from 1980 that sounds better but is really falling apart, a 1981 USA fender bullet about to get rebuilt, a japanese jaguar and a mexican jazz bass. Played in bands a lot when younger, now my favorite hobby.

check out my 'single' from the 2007 rpm challenge:
http://www.rpmchallenge.com/jukebox2007/

scroll down to 'Nerve Jockies' and hear 'Lester and the Water'
 
My repertoire is very limited... yet, but I'm trusting to extend it with two guitars. I mean, working with another guitar! :eek:

A while ago, my wife heard me all excited about a guitar I had a chance to strum in a store in Chicago and said "so, the camera fever is gone and you're going to start with guitars?"

The thought has crossed my mind.

I'm glad there are so many people with guitars around here! :) I'll keep you posted about this one. You'll know when it arrives! :D

Yes, hard to discern what's better, playing an instrument or taking pictures.
 
Francisco, let me know when you have a free Saturday - we can go guitar store hopping. Have you ever been to Tobias in Downers Grove?

For that matter, let me know if you'd like to fool around with my old twelve. I picked up a Godin A12 last Winter, so my old Sigma D12ST is just sitting.

I'm a bass player that dabbles in guitars...
 
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