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After many months of indecisiveness I finally made up my mind. I bought a new guitar.
Not just any guitar. A steel string acoustic/electric.
I said I’d never play another steel string guitar because the strings kill my fingers. I learned how to play on a steel string but I never really liked it.
So I bought a nylon string guitar.
Not an expensive one.
Just one I could work with and use for teaching. One that wouldn’t make my fingers feel like they were on fire. It sounded pretty nice, but it didn’t record well in the studio.
Maybe I needed to step it up a bit, I kept thinking. My plan was to get an Ibanez nylon string acoustic/electric. I had played a few of them and really liked them.
When I finally decided to go back to the music store and try out some new guitars, there were no nylon string guitars there.
Was this a sign?
Whatever it was, I dove right in and started checking out the steel strings that looked pretty. Turns out pretty doesn’t necessarily mean they are going to sound good.
I got lucky.
The one I liked with the dolphins laser etched around the sound hole sounded as pretty as it looked. And it felt good. My fingers didn’t hurt. So I bought it.
And I’ve been happily strumming and picking every day since I brought it home. When spring break is over I’ll get to show it off to my students. Maybe it will serve as inspiration….I know it has for me!