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My first guitar was a sears and roebucks 6 string acoustic the brand name was "Stella" I now play several, the main one is a standard so1 strat made in china also i have a hohner acoustic and a Dobro hound dog slide

It was a cheap nylon-string classical I bought 37 years ago while an impoverished student. My first steel-stringed (a year later) was an Eko. No idea what model as it is long since gone.

My first guitar was hollow and had six strings.That's all I can remember about it.The first guitar that I tried to play and promptly put out of tune was my step-dads Gibson Hummingbird.(behind his back)He played Country/Western in the local bars and treated his guitar with love and care.
I can now say in hindsight I should have asked him first.
The first guitar I bought was a Norman.I wish I could remember the model as it was a great guitar.The body was a dark brown wood with no finish.
Thanks for the memories,I'm gonna do search on my first guitar.
Kenny

It all started when my dad got a Yamaha accoustic to start to play. me and my bro asked him to make us one so he made one(he's quite skilled with a band saw)with fishing line for strings, and the chord diagrams of A & D drawn on the neck. we eventually broke the strings but we kept on pretending to play live concerts down in our base ment. yeah the one that i really learned to play on was a Nova that i got from my parents at christmas a few years back. i learned the very basics from my dad, then eventually taught myself the rest. I now play on a Behringer package electric guitar.

Wow good question, and one requiring much more memory cells than I think I have anymore (it's an "old age" thing).

  First guitar was an old Alvarez that I got in 1972 from a Doctor, who happened to be the dad of my girlfriend at the time.  He played in his youth and quit because the calluses interfered with his ability to "feel" the knife in surgery.  Nylon, classical and a pretty nice guitar as I recall.  He taught me a few chords and with the help of a Mel Bay book.... I was on my way!  Took a couple classical lessons and when I was able to afford it, moved on "up" to a 12 string Matao (which I still have in semi-retirement for those special occasions when I want to sound really terrible!). 

  Over the years I have aquired and sold a few others.... another 12 string, a Yamaha, a Strat (which I wish I still had it was from the 60's).  Currently I'm down to three besides that old Matao, a classical (built locally), an older Epi ST275, and a newer Ovation acoustic/electric Adamas body.  Just about enough of an arsenal to do everything I want to without going broke.

  The funny thing is that you can only play one at a time....

Take Care;
Doug

This is a great question- My first guitar was a Harmony, A Canadian made guitar that was very popular in its day, I then got a 12 string Gianninni, which I played for quite a while, then I found an old Martin, circa 1932 in my father in laws basement, which I played for a number of years.  This was an O17, I believe which is a small parlor size guitar.

For several years I stopped playing guitar and took up the piano, but then one day my wife bought me a Seagull, another, great Canadian Made guitar. It got me interested in guitar again and no I have a Martin D28. I think I have my final guitar, I love it.

I am, however, looking at getting an electric guitar and I am going to learn the banjo. keep learning different instruments is my theory. Ya never know when you will need to know a new sound.

I'm still learning to play.  However, I have progressed from a free guitar to another free guitar.  Free is my favorite brand.  One day perhaps I will buy one. 

- Zurf

My first guitar was a6 string acoustic, the name brand is Vagabond, not very good but it worked.  Currently I have a Washburn, it's amazing!

My very first ever guitar, was one i was bought as a 11yr old, to take lessons at school.  I had the lessons for two yrs, then moved along to High School and the guitar was forgotten for 20 yrs..!  My mum kept it for all that time, and now i have it back in my possesion!  My children pick it up and have a fiddle with it from time to time.

Now, the guitar i have learned to play since picking it up again 6 months ago, is a Freshman Acoustic. A lovely guitar, bought brand new for £99. I also have an IbanezGAX70 which has been a wonderful learning tool for the electric player.

Christmas 1958, my brother and I got our first guitars. They were a plastic, four string 'Elvis Presley' ones with an 'autochord', a plastic box that was strapped on the fretboard which had buttons on that pressed the strings to make the chords, but it meant that we could get a song out of it straight away. They came with a set of pitch pipes and a simple song book and I remember that we drove our parents nearly crazy playing 'Home on the Range' over and over.

It did not take long for the 'autochord to break and I had to start pressing the strings myself and soon after the the plastic frets wore down to make playing it impossible. I then progressed to a proper guitar but I cannot remember what that was I'm afraid.

Roger

So I bought a Takamine GS330 dreadnought and it was sweet.  And as I learned, my brother-in-law gave me a Washburn D10, which has a booming voice.  Then within a year and in reward for my progress he and my sis gave me a Taylor 413 30th Anniversary.  I've since bought a Yamaha Electric and Ibanez AR73 electric, but I most appreciate the Taylor.  By the way, Ann & Nancy Wilson (Heart) signed my 1st - the Takamine.  I won't be selling that you know...