What to look for when buying a guitar

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[MidlandsJJ]

30 years ago I used to play flamenco and classical guitar, but my hand was crushed at work and I lost a lot of my dexterity and finger control. I love seeing these young people playing guitar the way I dreamed of.

[l.g.]

Alexandra whittingham ❤❤❤
You are a great guitarist 👏👏👍👍

[Bysler]

Low action without buzzing is definitely the main focus for beginners

[Alexander]

You say it’s over a hundred pounds, yet you can lift it with one hand. You’re so strong it’s scary!

[chemdah]

My hearing is not what it used to be. If I get a new guitar I will definitely be taking your advice on how to increase guitar volume. Thanks for the video.

[GreenRose]

This video is very helpful, thankyou Alexandra ❤

[ionageman]

I’ve been using my c40 student guitar for over 20 years, it is unbreakable

[pln]

Like you said,
Higher gauge, better sound, but harder to play.
to add,
hitting a harmonic and listening for sustain, like hard whack across the 5th fret harmonic, hit it hard across all strings, more sustain is better.
hitting the actual 12th fret and comparing it to its harmonic on the 12th, pitch should be similar if not identical

[fi]

...one of my favourite pieces of Chopin, playing on guitar in the background...

[audiophileman]

Thank you for these tips, Alexandra. When I was first learning how to play guitar, I bought a nice C40 classical guitar made by Yamaha. It is around the price you mentioned, but I didn't hear you mention what Yamaha model you were referring to. The C40 seems to be highly rated as a starter classical guitar. The nylon strings are softer and the fret board is a little wider; it helped me learn better at first until my fingers began to conform with the fret board and I went back to my early '70's Yamaha steel string guitar. Though I love nearly all guitar music, I love to play blues on guitar. What a lot of people don't know is that a classical guitar produces an excellent sound for many styles of music like blues. I've even played Christmas carols on mine. 🎸🎸🎸

[stephenlyons]

And the tone woods are critical. So many classical guitars use cedar tops. I wonder what tone woods you prefer.

[Phurlo]

Good lord I would be blown away if you could add some more of your insight into your guitars and other guitars you’re into and what the selling point of them would be. That information is just HUGE!!!

[nigelfelton]

I bought a guitar, hand built in Spain the 1970s by luthier Rafael Molina for £50 online. It needed some work ( tuning heads, restring, new nut ) which cost me another £150. I think the equivalent quality new would be over a grand. So keep an eye out!

[payalpayal]

Which Yamaha model is this ??plzz reply 💟

[np]

150lbs! I never knew acoustic guitars were that heavy!

[ramonleonegea]

Thank you Alexandra, I like your video very much, greetings from Spain.

[Materva-hvsz]

Alexandra do you prefer Cordoba or Yamaha for factory guitars in the $600-1200 range?

[HarosOfStyx]

So, here's the problem I thought of after listen to what you said. I'm a concert pianist, and I do want to learn a string instrument as well - since I play jazz as well. But in terms of the distance of strings from the neck, how will I choose a guitar based on that factor if I've never played a strings-only instrument? I'm assuming a guitarist of equal level to me would have to test it for me, no? Or is there another way? (Keep in mind that, as a musician, I've always wanted to learn music that was increasingly more difficult - or beyond my skill level - while I was training...)

[okritsky]

in my experience yamaha can't compete with fender. fender is betteer if you compare "tune by frets precision sound". in the same price.

[GalakF]

Thanks for the video 🙂 I think your advices are wize for beginners. So I wondered, in my case, I'm at an intermediate level and I ask myself about to change my Alhmabra 3C to some higher model. It's difficult to find information about what is important or not to check when you search a "second" guitar. In shop, it isn't so easy because of the noise, you're not seated as usual, strings are new ones and are quickly out of the tune... and the guitar itself is a new one and I noticed my 3C sounds better with time. May be you would have any advice for me ?