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Good acoustic guitars.

  • 13-11-2011 10:27pm
    #1
    davidc6473
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30 ✭


    Hi. i have 400euro and i want to buy the best acoustic guitar that i can for my money. I have heard that tanglewood guitars are the best for the price. I would realy appriciate your help. Thank you. :)


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  • #2
    dubber
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 355 ✭✭dubber


    I thought the Tanglewood TW40 was good in that price range.


  • #3
    il gatto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,023 ✭✭✭il gatto


    Played a few Tanglewoods years ago and didn't like them. Has coloured my view of them since. They're well regarded by most. I play a Yamaha F-310 that cost £130 new about 12-13 years ago. Has no pickup but it's still one of the nicest guitars I've played. I've had a guy with a Lowden, Takamine and a Taylor want to buy it. An other guy with a Takamine and an Ovation. One guy with Martin he bought in the 80's loved it too.
    Moral is play a few. As looks is kinda secondary with an acoustic and you don't have the single coil/humbucker divide, you may find you prefer the cheapest in the shop or a low profile brand.


  • #4
    dubber
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 355 ✭✭dubber


    il gatto wrote: »
    Moral is play a few.

    That's pretty much what I did, played everything within budget (including stuff way under budget).


  • #5
    8k2q1gfcz9s5d4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,616 ✭✭✭8k2q1gfcz9s5d4


    go to a shop and play a few. you should get something nice in that price range


  • #6
    davidc6473
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30 ✭davidc6473


    Thanks guys. im looking at the tanglewood v300 at the moment and im going to my local guitars shop at the weekend so hopefully they can help me out! thanks for your help. :)


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  • #7
    clonmahon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 261 ✭✭clonmahon


    il gatto wrote: »
    Moral is play a few. As looks is kinda secondary with an acoustic and you don't have the single coil/humbucker divide, you may find you prefer the cheapest in the shop or a low profile brand.

    This is true don't confine your search to the top end of your budget. The sweetest tone I ever heard in an acoustic was a Suzuki my brother bought second hand for small money in Cork in the late 1980s. He played it for over 20 years until the neck warped and it developed a tuning problem. But the point is that while generally more money will buy a better guitar, this is not always the case.


  • #8
    davidc6473
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30 ✭davidc6473


    clonmahon wrote: »
    This is true don't confine your search to the top end of your budget. The sweetest tone I ever heard in an acoustic was a Suzuki my brother bought second hand for small money in Cork in the late 1980s. He played it for over 20 years until the neck warped and it developed a tuning problem. But the point is that while generally more money will buy a better guitar, this is not always the case.
    thanks i just want to be sure it will last me a long time because i probably wont have this amount of money again il try out some guitars at the weekend and hopefully there will be a good one. do any of you no the sound factory in athlone?:)


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