Sunday, February 09, 2014

How to Choose Your First Guitar

Before buying your first guitar, it is important that you analyze well if it is a quality instrument. Here we tell you what to observe in detail.

Choose Your First Guitar

How to tell if a guitar is good quality

The process of learning guitar is quite arid, and if we add constant tuning problems or bad sound because the sound box, a bad guitar would start the inevitable abandonment of discipline.

That said, in this article we will see several interesting facts that will help you choose a good guitar , suitable as possible to your budget. If in the final analysis you realize that a good quality guitar does not fit your budget, we recommend that you wait a few more months and save you you need to have a minimum of sound quality.

Analysis guitar structure

The neck is one of the most important parts of the guitar that we observe, we must ensure that it has a minimum curvature, since almost no tinkering guitar sounds without being completely straight. To locate this curvature, we must hold the guitar face up rolling his eyes around the blade, and staring at the fretboard; completely straight or convex part should not be.

Looking at the pitch , we must take into account the radius . Small radios make life easier for us when playing barre chords life, but the older radios will give us better ability to act in the low strings, and phrasing to make bedings no problem with moving.

The dishes should be well glued to the fretboard , should have the same height and be perfectly polished, chamfered ends ending without hanging over the fretboard.

We also need to observe the distance between the bottom of the strings and the first fret, it should be minimal and should not rub, but if large have problems tuning in the first frets.

Following our detailed analysis, we must ensure that the saddle protrudes about half its height above the surface of the stopovers, and the strings come into downward angle toward the anchoring holes, once you pass the saddle.

The material of construction of a guitar

The building material is inevitably essential in the sound quality of the acoustic musical instruments. A guitar should have at least the top of a hard and resistant wood such as cedar or fir. Cedar tends to give a deeper sound and be cheaper than spruce, so it may be a good choice. 
If the box is plywood, make sure that the internal wood has the same quality as the external because many times the inner lining is made ​​of wood of lesser quality to reduce costs. 
A guitar plywood tight, can easily compete with a solid wood, so do not worry if the budget does not reach for one of these.

Today there are very good quality guitars compared to the money they cost. They usually have details like level frets and a poor fit of the soul they can be repaired, but the repair should be part of our budget. We will have to evaluate and decide if we want a low-end guitar or one that does not have solved the problems from the factory.

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