If you had an insuperable desire to learn to play a guitar, and thus you don't know, what guitar to buy to begin with, here some councils about guitar purchase.
The first guitar – classical
Even if you have dared at training to play on an electroguitar or a bass guitar, it is better begin with the classical guitar. This instrument has soft nylon strings and a wide fretboard. Play receptions on it – a certain generalization of receptions of play on all other guitars of "narrower" specialization. Having mastered classical, you without effort will adapt both to semiacoustic, and to an electroguitar etc.
Check quality:
That sounding tools was qualitative, it should be ideally adjusted, otherwise it will be false. The falseness reason is technically put usually in infringement мензуры – length of strings from bottom to top порожков. At a classical guitar it traditionally makes 650 mm. Thus the length of space from 12 harmony to 1 порожка should be 325 mm. Neither it is more, nor it is less.
To check up observance of these proportions, at guitar purchase measure a thin metal ruler along the first string (i.e. the most thin).
The signature stamp line should be to ideally direct, parallel string. The tool with the bent signature stamp will publish jingling additional sounds during play , and to correct it independently in house conditions it will be already impossible. As well metal frets should be pure about hollows, with an equal surface.
Necessarily pay attention to affinity of strings to frets: the it is more, the will play easier. But the strings too close located to frets besides will jingle. Further measure height of strings over 12 harmony. For the first it should be 3-4 mm, for the sixth – 3,5-5 mm. The height depends on rigidity of strings and a manner of play of the musician, and it can be adjusted, having changed height bottom порожка.
At last, acquire a rule which isn't subject to infringement never. On a classical guitar in no event it is impossible to establish metal strings. Thus the return variant is quite admissible.
The case
This part of the tool — a sound basis. Quality of the sound depends on quality of the case also. The guitar case can consist of plywood, an integral tree or a synthetic material.
As the bad most quality are considered from plywood: such tools were issued in Soviet Union. Plywood – a powerful absorber of a sound that is why to achieve tolerable sounding on such guitars is almost unreal. Today, truth, plywood cases of many manufacturers are formed by several layers of a tree that affects tool sounding much more salutary.
Much in a greater degree the sound depends from top decks, rather than on the bottom. It is considered to be the most harmonious guitars with the top decks from a cedar or a fir-tree. Thus the bottom decks are usually made of a black rosewood. The plastic case is a destiny precisely not a classical guitar. That is why to consider this variant in given article we will not be.
So, buying a guitar, be sure to pay attention to accuracy and evenness of all major proportions, evenness and nut vulture, as well as the material of the shell tool. That's it - the basic components of a good guitar that will serve for a long time when properly handled.
