I think it was 1973, I was visiting my kids and ex-wife and spent a lot of time with an old folk playing buddy who had done master classes with Segovia and Parkening. He lent me two pieces of sheet music, the prelude to Antonio Lauro's Suite Venezolana and Bach's Little Prelude. I promptly learned to play them on my little Gibson LG-1 and was hooked. For the next 20 years or so, I played classical almost exclusively. Lately, only steel string as I'm playing in a folk trio and don't have time for the classical as well. Oh, well, retirement is not too far away. 
Brad
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