What is the best beginner acoustic guitar to buy?
My aim is to learn the acoustic guitar and then move on to the bass guitar. I was thinking about buying the Yamaha FG700 acoustic but then i was given advice saying that Yamaha is crap and the Johnson acoustic guitars are better and cheaper. I want to make sure that when i finally buy my acoustic guitar, i don’t start wishing i bought a different one. No matter what guitar you buy, you’re probably going to wish you’d bought a different one. It’s the nature of things. That said, I have zero experience with Johnson guitars (never heard of them). But I’ve played some good Samicks and Corts. Then there’s the low-end Epiphones and Squires (owned by Gibson and Fender, respectively). Of course, if you’d like to try something totally different, you may look at an Applause by Ovation — they have a round, Lycra back, which greatly changes the feel of them. Although a bit of warning: people generally either love or loathe round-back guitars; there’s very little middle-ground. The key is to play
