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I bought a Crate Acoustic Amp. The Gunnison model. Sounds great.

I ended up ordering a Zoom H2 $160.00. A little more than I was planning to spend, however it was the bronze medal winner Acoustic Guitar Mag players choice award for product of the year. Virtually every web site I searched I filtered most popular in my search and the Zoom was nearly always #1. I will let everyone know how I like it when I get it. Thanks for the help.

I have one and I like it. It works good, although downloading songs on it can be tricky. I hook my up to computer speakers that have a sub woofer and listen and play along with it. It has alot of features I need to figure out.

Thanks for the help.

I own a Seagull S6. I love it. I am fairly new myself and I was told it was one of the top guitars for beginners in the $300.00 or less price range. My guitar teacher says it is a great guitar and wouldn't mind having one himself and he has a ton of em. He loves the sound. I have since had a Fishman Eclipse VT pre-amp/pickup professionally installed and it sounds really good pluged in. The guy that installed the pick said it was very good quality guitar and that it had great sound. I have an Alvarez RD20S that is not bad. I use it as my campfire guitar.

I have a Seagull S6 Cedar top that sounds great. You can get one around $300.00

The number after the D 41, 42, 45 is the Ornamentation. The guitars are the same the inlays decoration is different. Hope this helps.

Check this site out about the history of the guitar.

http://www.guyguitars.com/eng/handbook/ … story.html

Wlbaye is dead on on bridging the generation gap. I am taking a guitar class at our church. I started not too because I new I would be the only "OLD Fart" and the rest would be Jr high/High school age. I went anyway. Sure felt old, but as Russell stated the focus of older "students" is greater. Most of the initial class has already quit, only two left me and a 14-15 year old girl named Kristi. When we were asked to bring some music in we wanted to learn and play I looked up some stuff on Chordie in the easy to play song book section. Picked out some stuff, Eagles, Bob Dylan, Creedance, etc. I figured Kristi would bring some new fangaled music the kids listen to today. Well she didn't bring any music and when she saw what I brought she thought it was great. She said she loved the old music more than the new stuff. With almost 40 years between our ages we are plugging away at the same tunes. Heres to "Old Farts" and good music.

Same Day Music is another good site to buy from. They have good service, and prices. If you see a lower price on the net send them the url and after they check it out they usually beat it.

I took my guitar (Seagull S6) back to where I bought it. They had told me to bring it back in a couple of months so they could check it out and put new strings on it. The guy that changed them changed them all at once.

Here is what I did for what it is worth. Last summer I went to a Jimmy Buffett concert in Frisco, Texas. I had a blast with all of the Parrot Heads sitting in the parking lot partying and player guitars. Always wanted to learn. Was in a Sam's Club and saw a Fender Acoustic Electric Starcaster for $129.00 and bought it. I thought Fender Starcasters were a good brand so I thought it was a great deal. Lo and behold Stratocaster is the buzz word, which I thought of when I bought (good marketing ploy on Fender's part). Took home and starting trying to learn. Followed the DVD that came with it and learned 3 chords. At this point various web sites as well as friends recommended an electric as it would be easier to learn to play since the Fender Acoustic was not that good of quality and hard to play even with good strings. Went on Craigslist found a Fender Squire Strat then bought an inexpensive Crate amp on Craigslist. I do not know if it was easier because it was an electric or because I had some practice but it still was hard to play. I then went to a guitar lesson and was given advice to the effect I needed to buy a good quality Acoustic guitar. I went out and bought a Seagull S6 Cedar Top Acoustic $331.00. I really love this guitar and after buying it I have progressed nicely in a month and half.  Bottom line is if I had bought a good guitar to start I would be farther along, the electric didn't really change anything as far as my play. I have since sold it and the amp. Although I am new to playing I too get bored with the same chords that I need to practice and the same scales I need to practice so when I get bored I try something beyond my current skill level just for the hell of it. I am working on finger picking from time to time. I look at chord charts with these terribly hard finger placements and try and play it even though I have yet to find a song that that chord is in. I like old country and old stuff like the Eagles, however I have tried a few blues type stuff just to give me a break from the same old routine even though I can't really play it or am really not that interested in it.  If I ever get really good I am going for a really good quality Acoustic Electric. I think that would be nice.

Good luck on your playing. I hope an electric helps you with your boredom and playing, it just really didn't help me that much.

Maury