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Guitar shopping

Submitted by charlie.collins on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 14:55
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Lately I have been doing some guitar shopping. I have been thinking about getting back into it for a while now, after many years away, and was curious what real musicians might recommend as a good "beginner" guitar. I have some preferences/prejudices from back in the day (I like Ovation, even though I know some people don't prefer them, I had one years ago and it was solid - I like the price point and idea of the Celebrity), and so have been doing some online research. Ovation Celebrity CC24 Seagull comes up a lot as a recommendation, as does Ibanez, Yamaha, Washburn. and every now and then Ovation. I haven't pulled the trigger yet, but probably will do so soon. Something else I noticed just today is spurring me on - Garage Band now has lessons, including artist's lessons. Now I may suck at the guitar, and these lessons may never help me, but it's just pretty damn cool to be able to have Sting even *try* to teach you Roxanne, and the like. I haven't jumped at iLife 09 yet either, but this combination might be the catalyst I need (a new guitar AND GarageBand).

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Just noticed Leopard is

Submitted by charlie.collins on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 15:04.
Just noticed Leopard is required for iLife 09 - bastards. I don't have Leopard, and don't particularly want to have to pay to upgrade my OS, seems to work fine right now - other than requirements crap like this. Oh well, no iLife for me - still getting a guitar though ;).

guitar

Submitted by squid squidley (not verified) on Thu, 01/29/2009 - 12:51.
I have had a takamine for about ten years and love it. It has a similar fretboard to ovation and a can be had for a decent price. BTW your captcha is the hardest to read I have ever seen :(

Takamine et al

Submitted by charlie.collins on Fri, 01/30/2009 - 13:33.
I hear Takamine are good, thanks for the note. Actually I think it's the same parent company as Ovation ;). Anyway, yeah, the captcha here SUCKS, I agree, but it's the Drupal built in one. I had a simple math one I wrote myself for about 5-6 years, but the bots started catching on and the volume of spam was crazy. I will try to make that one better, but its really unfortunate that there has to be one at all.

CAPTCHA FIXED

Submitted by charlie.collins on Fri, 01/30/2009 - 13:51.
Ok, there were several problems, solved once someone prodded me into doing something about it ;). 1. The Drupal CAPTCHA module hides the "Image Captcha" settings button very well, I had never seen it before. 2. I had to find and install some true type fonts So it wasn't totally Drupal's fault, but anyway, it's much better now (still not good, but better).

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