I am looking to buy an acoustic guitar to play on. Second hand is preferable, look to spend around 3000 baht +/- 1000. Anyone have one to sell here? If not, can you recommend some places? Baht and sold had none, neither did Craigslist. Most of the threads I found on the topic are out of date.

Thanks!

I suppose you already know the good and bad thing about buying a guitar but if not may I offer some advice? First of all what sort of acoustic guitar are you wanting? One with steel strings or perhaps gut strings? It is easier to learn with gut strings. Are you familiar with the difficulties of learning on a cheap guitar if you're a beginner? High action for example, that is the height above the fret board of each string the more difficult it is to hold the strings down onto the fret. Also be careful when you inspect a guitar that looks good. Look down the fret from the tuning pegs towards the body. Is the fret board warped or twisted.. Are you just interested in strumming chords or learning melodies and chords, classical or folk etc etc. Choosing a good guitar to play with is very important if you wish to be half successful. The more expensive the instrument should make it easier to learn on. Never give a child a cheap guitar that's a gurantee he/dhe will lose interest real quick. I wish you well. Guitar playing is harder to learn than most instruments even more so than instruments such as pianos and the like. A guitarist has to make the sounds with both hands fingers coordinating simultaneously. That's not the case for most other instruments.

I see them from time to time on thaivisa classifieds. A place to look for them is Fortune Town. Can't remember which floor, but one of the upper floors has a few used guitar shops.

I suppose you already know the good and bad thing about buying a guitar but if not may I offer some advice? First of all what sort of acoustic guitar are you wanting? One with steel strings or perhaps gut strings? It is easier to learn with gut strings. Are you familiar with the difficulties of learning on a cheap guitar if you're a beginner? High action for example, that is the height above the fret board of each string the more difficult it is to hold the strings down onto the fret. Also be careful when you inspect a guitar that looks good. Look down the fret from the tuning pegs towards the body. Is the fret board warped or twisted.. Are you just interested in strumming chords or learning melodies and chords, classical or folk etc etc. Choosing a good guitar to play with is very important if you wish to be half successful. The more expensive the instrument should make it easier to learn on. Never give a child a cheap guitar that's a gurantee he/dhe will lose interest real quick. I wish you well. Guitar playing is harder to learn than most instruments even more so than instruments such as pianos and the like. A guitarist has to make the sounds with both hands fingers coordinating simultaneously. That's not the case for most other instruments.

Nice advice, but what musical instruments, apart from Def Leppard's drumkit can be played without both hands? coordinating?

Music City at Central Plaza Rama 9 (praram 9 MRT station) They have quite a few decent new guitars and some around that price range. The above poster is right about action and ease of playability.

Check classified ads at http://guitarthai.com