Trouble giving up your first guitar?

[AidenCook]

Anyone here ever have trouble giving up their first guitar for sentimental reasons, even when it's time to let go? Did you decide to keep it for those reasons or cut the ties?

[DenverSteve]

No trouble at all. It was decades ago but when it's time to move up and move on - I move.

[Paraclete]

I kept my first guitar for nearly 25 years. Sentimental, I guess, even though it was horrible to play...a very cheap Korean-made plywood classical. I hadn't really touched it for 15 years by the time I finally sold it (at my neighbor's garage sale for $60). But at that point,I had bought a really nice Ramirez that had belonged to a deceased friend, and sentimental or not, the old Franciscan was just taking up a lot of room,and I had no desire to play it again. I don't regret letting it go.

[frankhond]

My very first guitar was a cheap yamaha classical, after about a year I got something nicer and bye bye.

I had a 10 or so year hiatus when I sold all guitars and stopped playing. When I started anew I got another "first" guitar, a very cheap asian plywood dreadnought that was completely dead but very easy to play. After a year I upgraded and left this guitar to a friend.

[pieterh]

Not really though it hurt when I sold my first bass when I went off to college. It was an Aria SB Black n Gold II and if I could find one today without it breaking the bank I'd snap it up.

[L20A]

My first guitar was more a toy than a guitar. It was an all plywood Stella with the highest action that could possibly be put on a guitar.
This was back in 1961. The guitar thankfully imploded one day.

The next guitar was an all plywood Yamaha. It was a great sounding and easy playing guitar. In 1970, it went with me to Basic Training where I learned a lot about playing it.
Sadly I knew nothing about humidifying a guitar back then and living in Utah, the braces came loose and I traded it in on another guitar that was not as good.

I don't miss either of them.

[Bob Womack]

No trouble giving it up. But I don't think I will.


1970 Silvertone Classical

I just don't feel a need to get rid of it.

Bob

[hilts]

My first guitar is a very decent Seagull S6 and I can't see myself ever giving it up for sentimental reasons. It's the guitar that got me started on this fantastic journey.

[Mr Bojangles]

My first guitar was a Sears Silvertone acoustic that I worked and saved for months to buy ($10.50, if I remember correctly). It had an outrageously high action and those heavy Black Diamond strings tortured my fingers. I'm surprised that I didn't give up playing. When I finally got a good guitar years later, a Martin D-28, I ceremoniously smashed the Silvertone on the sidewalk. No, I don't miss the vicious beast. It was a cruel taskmaster.

[Rudy4]

Don't remember how my first Green Stamp Kay and I parted ways, but it might have been cathartic to go all Pete Townshend or El Kabong on it.

Needless to say, there was no love loss.

[Rudy4]

Originally Posted by Mr Bojangles

My first guitar was a Sears Silvertone acoustic that I worked and saved for months to buy ($10.50, if I remember correctly). It had an outrageously high action and those heavy Black Diamond strings tortured my fingers. I'm surprised that I didn't give up playing. When I finally got a good guitar years later, a Martin D-28, I ceremoniously smashed the Silvertone on the sidewalk. No, I don't miss the vicious beast. It was a cruel taskmaster.

A man after my own heart; we were typing at the same time.

Too bad you didn't spend $20 for a Silvertone electric, they're now high-dollar items for the Shabby Chic guitar player crowd.

[SprintBob]

My first (3 years ago) was a Seagull S6 that I had for 7 months. It was a great tool and I sold it to someone who was very happy to have it. I enjoyed my 814 that replaced it a lot more. I do miss the 814 which I sold about 3 months ago but what I replaced it with will probably be with me for a long time.

[pickinray]

I had no problem parting with my first guitar (a Yamaha FG-75), but I've kept my second guitar (a MIJ Citation dreadnaught) for nearly 40 years. Even though I don't play it much any more, I keep it for purely sentimental reasons.

[fazool]

I had no problem trading away my first-ever acoustic guitar towards an amp.

But over three decades later I had wished I never sold it and found an identical model which I restored and hangs in my den now.

Same story with my first ever electric. It's identical replacement is on a stand in my den.

[Truckjohn]

None what so ever. Good riddance. It was some sort of miscellaneous MIJ classical. It wasn't really a good guitar and I am not really a classical player.