My guitars: I didn't play for 30 years and just recently got some guitars again. These handle everything I would want to do. I mostly just play the Taylor, which is a lot of fun. Left...

pentaxion Loc: Daytona Beach

I didn't play for 30 years and just recently got some guitars again. These handle everything I would want to do. I mostly just play the Taylor, which is a lot of fun. Left to right: TaylorGS Mini Mahogany; Seagull S6 Original Slim; and Epiphone Dot Studio. Anyone else on uhh like old acoustic guitar playing?

Rick-ws Loc: Seattle or North Idaho

Right there with you pentaxion - Taylor 412, 450 and 515 as well as a Washburn parlor.

pentaxion Loc: Daytona Beach

Rick-ws wrote:

Right there with you pentaxion - Taylor 412, 450 and 515 as well as a Washburn parlor.

Well you got a lot more than I can afford!

Rick-ws Loc: Seattle or North Idaho

acquired over 20 years - all of them were deeply discounted and sound marvelous

Einreb92 Loc: Philadelphia

As far as acoustic, I have a Gibson B25n. Small body, been worked like a farm mule, but with the sweetest tone imaginable. I have others, but not acoustic. Gave my son two Alvarez: 6 and 12 string. He’s a pretty good picker!

bellgamin Loc: Ewa Beach, Hawaii

I have a Martin dreadnaught that is about 12 years old, but I can't play it any more for physical reasons. So now my main ax is a Taylor GS mini -- mahogany like yours. It's small enough that I can play it a couple hours at a session. It has pretty good bass &voice for a small guitar. Taylor makes excellent guitars, mostly beyond my budget.

I have a Yamaha silent A/E guitar on the way. It doesn't have a small body -- it has no body at all. I am hopeful I will be able to play it for much longer than 2 hours per session. I also have a Breedlove A/E concert-size ax. It is smaller than a dreadnaught but it still gives me pain to play it very long. I should have bought a parlor size instead.

I can & sometimes do play a uke for 6-8 hours at a sitting. I have several ukes. My main is an 8-string tenor uke that sings like an angel.

How do you like your Seagull? I never owned one but a friend let me play his & I decided that those Canadians really make great instruments. That Seagull was acoustic but it had great cutting power!

pentaxion Loc: Daytona Beach

I love my GS Mini. It is absolutely the greatest travel guitar ever made. It has sound like a much bigger guitar. As far as Seagull, I don't think you can do better for the money. I can recommend Seagull for anyone who can't afford Taylor.

happy sailor Loc: Ontario, Canada

SIL had a Seagull S6 Cedar top / electrics in it, it was a beautiful sounding guitar, unfortunately got put away in the case while conditions were too damp and it got moldy. It could not be recovered. I have a Washburn D10s, a Takamine G128S and an Epiphany Les Paul Special II. It is my retirement goal to learn how to play, always wanted to. Mine are all beginner level but the Washburn has great sound for its price. Bought the granddaughters (8 year olds) Squire Mini Strats, we are learning together.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

I have two Manual Contreras classical guitars, one a spruce top the other cedar. I also have a Lawrence Brown 10 course lute. I don't do concerts / recitals anymore but still find playing a very nice method of relaxation.
--Bob

pentaxion wrote:

I didn't play for 30 years and just recently got some guitars again. These handle everything I would want to do. I mostly just play the Taylor, which is a lot of fun. Left to right: TaylorGS Mini Mahogany; Seagull S6 Original Slim; and Epiphone Dot Studio. Anyone else on uhh like old acoustic guitar playing?

Texcaster Loc: Queensland

I'm a very keen but ordinary social musician. Most of my instruments are homemade, a 000, an OM, acoustic archtops with end of fingerboard humbuckers, mandolins, a viola, an acoustic double bass, electric double basses, electric fiddles, guitar basses and ukuleles. I have one very good and one OK commercially made fiddles and one excellent and some good and some emergency bows . I recently fitted a set 5ths tuned strings to a uke, my quiet mando. I'm designing a uke that will handle single course, steel mando strings.

I'm an amateur acoustic luthier but I do make electric double basses and fiddles for sale.

http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-393630-1.html

JRFINN Loc: Plymouth, MA

My wife doesn't understand why I have so many guitars. I guess not being musically inclined makes it hard for her to understand the love, sound and feel we all have for each guitar.

Yamaha 110 red label
All others electric 6 strings, basses and ukes.

Kmgw9v Loc: Miami, Florida

One of my retirement goals was to learn to play. To that end, I purchased a Les Paul Standard.
It is beautiful Fireburst color guitar displayed in my family room, but I haven't learned to play yet. Still on the bucket list-- maybe this year I will make some noise.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Beautiful. I'm into ukuleles, and guitars look huge in comparison.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Kmgw9v wrote:

One of my retirement goals was to learn to play. To that end, I purchased a Les Paul Standard.
It is beautiful Fireburst color guitar displayed in my family room, but I haven't learned to play yet. Still on the bucket list-- maybe this year I will make some noise.

You took the first big step. You can't play with an instrument. Take it slow and enjoy the process. There is more guitar instruction on YouTube than you would be able to watch in a lifetime.

Texcaster Loc: Queensland

JRFINN wrote:

My wife doesn't understand why I have so many guitars. I guess not being musically inclined makes it hard for her to understand the love, sound and feel we all have for each guitar.

Yamaha 110 red label
All others electric 6 strings, basses and ukes.

Wife ... "How many guitars do you need??"

Husband ... "Count 'em up when I'm dead."