My kids giving me crap about getting a 12-String.

[hairpuller]

Just make sure your hair is at the bare minimum shoulder length. If you can include some kind of accoutrement in your hair like a ribbon, headband, etc. you are good to go.

Have fun!
scott

[Dwight]

Someone in their 40's wants to buy a guitar and he has kids that play guitar too, What's up with that?

[FrankHudson]

I live in the Twin Cities area, and 12-string acoustics were sort of baked-into the soil or something. (Leo Kottke, Dave Ray, Papa John Kolstad, Ann Reed, John Koerner, Peter Lang...)

I also love Roger McGuinn/The Byrds electric 12-string sound, always have.

So I bought one shortly after coming to town. I was in my 20s then. I'm an old guy now, but my newest 12-string is 19 years old.

I've never thought of 12-strings in particular as well-known "midlife crisis guitars"--if they have a rep it's as guitars that people buy and then don't play.

As I get older with older finger joints I do play mine a bit less, but still I still play'em. Beside the usual folkie strum, and more eclectic so-called "American primitive" styles, I do try to do a bit of the blues 12-string stuff.

[kego]

I'd tell them not to worry. It's only their inheritance you're gonna spend on it...[emoji6]

[bufflehead]

I'm siding with the kids: Don't be that guy. The world really doesn't need another old guy playing "Stairway to Heaven" on a perpetually out-of-tune 12-string.

[whvick]

I got tired of tuning a twelve string and traded
It. But an 8 string sounds like fun

[davidbeinct]

Originally Posted by vindibona1

Hey... You make your money. You can spend it any way you want. Children will always think their parents are geeky. Today's kids are what we in education call "a different breed of kid". What influences them often begs rational thought, coming from a new culture lacking of virtue.

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room.

[Mycroft]

Originally Posted by davidbeinct

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room.

Speak for your own kids, not for others.

[Twitch]

I've had my Yamaha 12 for 15 years. Love that lush sound. Just play the first 2 chords of the intro to "Give a Little Bit" by Supertramp and everyone instantly recognizes it. Get yourself a 12, life's too short to worry about what anyone else thinks!

[Bob from Brooklyn]

[David Eastwood]

Originally Posted by davidbeinct

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room.

That's a pretty broad brush you're wielding there...

[Bob from Brooklyn]

Originally Posted by davidbeinct

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room.

This is a quote from Socrates. Somebody forgot a smiley or something

[martingitdave]

I'm your age. Only people our age, or older, like 12 strings. But, younger people are stupid and all their taste is in their mouths. LOL

[David Eastwood]

Originally Posted by Brooklyn Bob

This is a quote from Socrates. Somebody forgot a smiley or something

Oops. I missed that. And I supposedly had a classical education.

[phade314]

I second ladysolo's suggestion. My wife bought me a seagull coastline 12 string for just over 300.00. I love it.