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Licensed User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: ....down Highway 61
Posts: 6,507
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What is your goal? At the end of the day, what kind of music do you want to be able to play? Do you even want to play music, or do you just want to own gear? While searching out vintage guitars, I've met and heard stories of plenty of older people that never learned to fret a chord and owned specific guitars just to own them because thats what kids were into.
Safest answer given the info thats been provided is to buy or even borrow a decent full scale acoustic and to take some lessons. Learn basic theory and develop your ear first. Worry about the gear later.
If you don't know what guitar you might want to learn on, go to your local Guitar Center, tell a salesperson your situation, and let them guide you through a test drive of some of the guitars. Write down the make, model, name of something that feels comfortable to you and look for a used one on ebay.
I'll stress the 'get an acoustic first' theory again. If you learn on an electric and then go to an acoustic, you're going to find out really quickly that your hands will not be conditioned to the heavier strings and picking or fretting techniques.
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