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Thread #129929 Message #2919461
Posted By: Don Firth
02-Jun-10 - 08:56 PM
Thread Name: BS: How many plectrums are in your guitar?
Subject: RE: BS: How many plectrums are in your guitar?
Nary a one. When I bought my first guitar (1952, Regal, plywood guitar, for $9.95; extra $5.00 for a fiberboard case), the salesman gave me a free copy of Nick Manaloff's "How to Play the Guitar" manual and a patented "chord wheel," a sort of slide rule (made of cardboard) on which you could dial a key and it would show you which chords to play. He also threw in a free pick.
Never used it. Everybody I knew who sang folk songs played finger-style.
The guitar sounded a bit like an apple crate, but I lucked out because the fingerboard was accurate and the action was fairly decent. Okay to get started on, although most guitars in that price range back then were next to unplayable. As I say, I got lucky.
A year later, I got a Martin 00-18 steel-string. A year after that, I traded it in on a Martin 00-28-G classic when I started taking classic guitar lessons.