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Location: So. Cal. | Does anybody have any experience with this? I am looking for an O for my 6 year old. She wants to start learning how to play the guitar (wonder where she got that from?) I have bought an applause 3/4 size nylon for my nephew before. Is the trekker about the same size? Where do you start with a yound child in learning a guitar? Any comment is appreciated.
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Location: Tennessee | Howdy play ... hope all is well with you. I enjoyed meeting you at the OFC. I look forward to hearing you play next year.
In answer to your question ... I have two ... the shallow bowl applause version (forget the model number) and the much better CS212 (which is basically a 3/4 size Celebrity Deluxe).
One word ... indestructible. I bought them for my younger children so they wouldn't drag my other axes around the house. My 17 year old son still keeps both of them hand and plays them regularly (even though he bought himself a J-200 a while back).
The CS212 has the OP24+ and a mid-depth bowl. Surprisingly good sound. Playability is excellent. Really good for smaller hands. I think they've renumbered the line now but the guitar is the same as what is currently offered.
I think mine is about 4 or 5 years old. It has some lacquer cracks, but I expected that with as much as that guitar was dropped, knowcked over, and dragged around by kids ranging from 5 to 17.
The Applause has no cracks, and it is the shallow bowl version. Now that I think of it, I believe the model number is AA13??? It is a roundhole, and also has a preamp (the jack fell out at some point and is nowhere to be found, excepting for the guilty looks on a couple of sub-ten faces). Sound quality not nearly as good as the CS212, but I don't think I paid much more than $125 for it a bunch of years ago. Playability is comparable to the 212.
I'm sold on these. And they no doubt saved some wear and tear on my other guitars. Anything to get the young'uns to start their pursuit of music is good ... letting them have their own guitars is the best way. And since it looks like Dad's ... well ... it warms the heart. |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2547861663&category=33029 |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | I am always so impressed with how the members of this board do every thing they can to help little and big people enjoy our love of guitars, Ovations first, but guitars. |
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Location: So. Cal. | Thanks a lot for the inputs, guys. Any idea where to start when teaching a young child. The traditional theory and scales would seem a bit boring. Pop - what did you do with Kaki when she started (I am not saying I want my daughters to become a professional by any means though!).
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | playadamas
I have 3 out of four grown children (the youngest turns 40 next week) that are into guitar playing. Two of the three are professional in that they have played in many bands. How did I get them to learn? I gave them guitars and discussed technique with them as they jammed with their friends and in their bedrooms, I never tried to tell them what they should play. As they matured they wanted to join what I was doing on their own, (our bluegrass club was very useful in this instance). Before I left CA they were both playing in my band, one on vocals and rythm guitar the other on bass. The oldest got involved and married a girl from Carsbad and quit the band during his courtship, she probably didn't like the women hanging around, so it comes and goes. He still plays and records his music, but he stayed in CA when we left for NM. Give them a guitar and point out how to use it, but don't try to tell them what to play.
The important thing is that kids treat a guitar like a toy and they learn to enjoy and experiment with what we get asshole uptight with thinking it is a monumental thing requiring that we hold our mouth and our arms just so or we might fail. After all, all the pundits (paid by the word, by the way) tell us that we can't possibly just strum a song or two, nooo, we must get into the most limiting relationship with our instruments, that of them demanding, us begging, hoping, that that dreaded BAD NOTE does not creep in.
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