Friday, I took my son's violin into the music store to get the bridge fixed and while there I checked out the electric guitars they had. I'd been thinking about trading my acoustic in for one. I'd been having such a hard time playing the acoustic. It was very difficult to form the chords and impossible to switch to another after I had it. I figured it just needed a neck adjustment and after talking to the guys there I decided to take it in and let them look at it. They looked the guitar over and said the action was way too high which meant the strings were too high off the fret board. They adjusted the neck but said the bridge also needed sanding down some and said that changing to lighter weight strings would also help. Either way it seemed like a lot of the problem I was having was because of the size of the body and so many of the songs I wanted to play were actually performed on an electric. My husband had also bought me a neat computer program a while back for learning guitar but it was for electric. So I stood there and drooled over these electric guitars.
Actually, there was one guitar in particular that I just loved but I knew it was probably way too expensive. It's smaller so it seems like it would be just perfect for me! Also it was the only one that wasn't black or too crazy looking. It's stained a beautiful teal blue color and has a solid maple neck. I took some pictures with my cell phone to show my husband but I knew he would not be too excited when he heard how much. Also, I had found out the trade-in value for my acoustic was not very much. I told him about it but by bedtime I had decided to just let them fix up my other guitar and stick with that a while longer.
When I woke up the kids said my husband had been called in to work. I didn't think anything of it since he'd also had to work a little the last couple of weekends but I wondered why he didn't wake me up when he left..... and when he came rolling up at only 10:30 am I wondered why he didn't work for very long. He burst in the house all worked up because he said R (younger son) had left his to-go box from Boston's in the back seat of the car. I took off to go get it and it was sitting on top of a black zip-up guitar case with a small amp box (which is amazing for such a little thing!). I almost cried but worked really hard at holding back the tears since I know he hates that. It is soooooooooo beautiful! My camera is still broke (which I will NOT complain about ever again) but I found some pictures of the same guitar on ebay.
I don't have a nice fancy case like this one but you wont hear me complaining. My case is much more portable! This picture just shows the whole guitar very nicely. 
Doesn't that color just make you think of beautiful turquoise waters like these? 
My husband said the girl at the store recommended this little amp because it has a lot of neat effects, one of them being acoustic. So even though he went ahead and traded in my acoustic I still get the sound when I want it. This amp isn't much bigger than a car battery but it is a lot lighter. I can also put a battery in it and take it with me. He said I could use it to practice in the park. Hmmmmmmmm does that mean he doesn't want to hear me practice???
3 comments:
way to go donner!! :O) now that one can collect dust like the last one.. ;O)
just kidding!!!
wait....this means....GUITAR TEACHERS!!! break out those short skirts!!! hahahahahahahahahahahhahahahaahhahaha!!!!!!!
i miss you. :O)
cool. ive always wanted to learn how to play an instrument. i once considered taking harmonica lessons when i saw alanis playing it. anyways, thanks for the compliment. i doubt that im smarter than anybody though. i get myself into the sh*ttiest situations. hehehe, your blog is interesting. we are all interesting! :D
Woah... sweet guitar.
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