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Buying an acoustic?

Fender_ManFender_Man Posts: 408
edited March 2010 in Musicians and Gearheads
Never owned an acoustic, but suddenly feel the urge to go out and get one. My budget is a modest £150 or $300.
Can anyone recomend a good guitar in this price range? I'm only gonna' be playing the blues and such in my living room, but would like the best I can get for my money. Not averse to buying secondhand, just need some help???
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  • pumpkinheadpumpkinhead Posts: 570
    Pawn shop is the only way to go. Electric Acoustic is the best.
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  • PontikasPontikas Posts: 210
    Pawn shop is the only way to go. Electric Acoustic is the best.

    I don't understand why an electro acoustic would be the best...

    Anyway, for your budget you should go for a second hand Tanglewood if you can find one.
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  • YieldedYielded Posts: 839
    Pontikas wrote:
    Pawn shop is the only way to go. Electric Acoustic is the best.

    I don't understand why an electro acoustic would be the best...

    Anyway, for your budget you should go for a second hand Tanglewood if you can find one.

    Agreed. One of my guitars is a cheap Tanglewood and it's a great guitar, especially for the money!
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  • Uncle NeilUncle Neil Posts: 176
    If you're only planning on playing in your living room, then I would recommend NOT to get an electric acoustic, as you pay more for the electronics. Aside from that, I would go to your local music store and just play all of the guitars in your price range. You will get a pretty solid opinion formed just based on feel and sound. Definitely check out the used guitars they have as well, as you will be sure to get a better guitar for the money, as long as you don't mind buying used.
  • PRLJM1PRLJM1 Posts: 584
    There's a lot of great acoustics out there in that price range. Check out the Epiphone Dove or Hummingbird. I have played both and they sound great. Every guitar is different, you really should go to your local guitar shop and try out a bunch. It comes down to what really fits you well as far sound/tone and how it feels to you.
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  • mookiemoochie16mookiemoochie16 Posts: 521
    My first guitar was a Cort, from the Earth series. It's a really great instrument to begin playing with, nice sound and not too crazy expensive. Definitely check those out, anything by Cort is my recommendation.
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  • MK1980MK1980 Nottingham, UK Posts: 291
    Semi-Acoustic is the way to go...verisitile, also make sure it has a cut-away at the base of the fret board, as frets 15-17 are a whole lot easier to reach that way...also neck strength/string tension watch out for my mate found out the hard way...look for low/even action down the whole fret board bridge area...mine is a fender hotrod, just under 200pounds sterling aprox. $300 was worth it...has no scratch guard, but has excellent machine heads, a low action, cut-away design and I feel it was worth every penny...even though it's made in China
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    keeponrockin wrote:
    Art and Lutherie.

    Agreed, again. We pretty much always do though, well except on the Strat front! But I won't hold that against you.
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