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I was thinkin' the same thing the other day... We got punked!otaypanky said:
unch:I see a pink guitar sale in the near future.
trying to find an awesome quality pink guitar
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otaypanky said:
I sold mine to the parents of a 12-year-old girl. It was her birthday present. She seemed very pleased.
I still have the same model in white, albeit in the 12-string version (and with different pickups installed, by the previous owner):
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I asked the OP for an update a while back, to no avail.
Who knows what happened?
A response would be welcome.
I asked the OP for an update a while back, to no avail.
Who knows what happened?
A response would be welcome.
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response to the need for pink...and for speed...
first let me say..thank you all so much for your input..I take NO advice lightly..and also..let me SHOW you who you are talking to..so that you may understand..that yes....it HAS to be pink..lol...also: I have spoken to a LOT of folks on this subject and your all right..all of the off the shelf PINK guitars are basically crap...HOWEVER..since I dont know the difference..and I have to learn the boring stuff first...I went around and played around with some guitars to get a feel of what SEEMED like something I could HANDLE...neck, strings, size...etc..and I think I am going with a mid range; borderline crap model that handles for me well..its a pink stagg acoustic electric for under 200 bucks....when it is determined that I wont leave it in a corner for a year..I will have one custom made for me. Right now I dont want to invest in something that I may lose interest in...
Pink
www.trutv.com/video/speeders/pink-lady.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtkfuLIcEo8
http://vimeo.com/11310413
:dude
first let me say..thank you all so much for your input..I take NO advice lightly..and also..let me SHOW you who you are talking to..so that you may understand..that yes....it HAS to be pink..lol...also: I have spoken to a LOT of folks on this subject and your all right..all of the off the shelf PINK guitars are basically crap...HOWEVER..since I dont know the difference..and I have to learn the boring stuff first...I went around and played around with some guitars to get a feel of what SEEMED like something I could HANDLE...neck, strings, size...etc..and I think I am going with a mid range; borderline crap model that handles for me well..its a pink stagg acoustic electric for under 200 bucks....when it is determined that I wont leave it in a corner for a year..I will have one custom made for me. Right now I dont want to invest in something that I may lose interest in...
Pink
www.trutv.com/video/speeders/pink-lady.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtkfuLIcEo8
http://vimeo.com/11310413
:dude
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That's really hilarious. This vid actually made me check out hello kitty guitars on craigslist to see what's out there. I found one and emailed the guy, so we'll see what happens. I would absolutely love to play live with that axe.Radioboy950 said:
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hehehe cool! Well whilst we don't guitar choice in common it seems our other hobby is well suited! You see down here in Aussieland we created a Stunt riding team (road bikes) about 10 years ago - my fastest wheelie recorded on video was 211kph (or whats that in miles about 135?) as well as cleaning up locally in the Modified 1000cc + stock 600c race classes
Check us out at www.cunningstunts.com and or my racing website www.racing.cunningstunts.com....
I'm on both sites under Team - as J-rad, shorted version of my name Jarrad!
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Now I understand "Pinkspeeder"Cool I did all my riding in my '30's and 40's,but I still race cars so I know the need for speed,can't wait to see you get pulled over with a pink guitar strapped on you back and then bust out with the JailHouse Blues!!! Sumi
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i emailed this guy about one of the guitars for sale..he had a daisy rock acoustic electric..but it was 25 1/4 or something in size..is that way small? I dont want a child sized guitar..isnt standard like..40 or something??
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whats an OP?
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25.5" is the scale of Fender and many other guitars. That's a full-sized guitar. Gibsons are 24.75". Guitars designed for children would be even smaller than that.pinkspeeder said:
As far as your other question goes: OP = original poster. In this case, you.
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sumi..what?
I used to run sumitomo tires on my camaro......interesting name you picked there...
sumitomo said:Well Howdy Pink,I thnk Daisy Rock makes a Pink acoustic,Are you planning to wear a Pink Speedo when you play this?I'm just kidding,I like to joke around laugh,anyways welcome to the fret.Sumi
I used to run sumitomo tires on my camaro......interesting name you picked there...
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In my case it just means 'old person'
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i have been looking at lunas too...and I hate the idea of buying a daisy rock cuz it sounds so 13 yo girl..but..i have to admit..they seem to have the best product for an over the counter pink guitar...im not settled on that stagg..im checking out used guitars online at guitar center and wherever else I can..meantime I am starting to teach myself from books and anything I can find online...damn my fingers are sore as hell and I had to cut my nails short..I hate not having my long sexy nails...i dont feel like a chick!!!...my left arm is weak and killing me and my wrist feels like its gonna fall off..this standard acoustic guitar is too big for my wee hands to accommodate~ this learning to play the guitar sucks!! cant wait to get past this part of it..right now its like being a 400 lb fat person and trying to lose the first 10 lbs when you have NEVER excercised!:thwap
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hehehe stick with it! you will enjoy hanging about here with that SOH of yours!
*2 thumbs up*
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Neil Young and George Harrison both had electric guitars that were originally painted gold on the top, goldtops, a metallic gold stunning finish; and both guitars were later painted black.
Neil Young's awesome old Les Paul electric was painted black with a paint brush and is probably his most awesome, hot rodded guitar that he owns and plays today. A very special guitar.
The idea of finding a great acoustic you can afford that just "fits" into your hand when playing chords with ease, etc., and having good tone, but is the wrong color; and painting it another color is not a new concept.
Your arm and hand won't hurt. It will be like an extension of your body, so to speak. And paint it any way you want or have it painted - wouldn't cost much, especially when we are talking GAS here.
GAS: guitar acquisition syndrome or gear acq syndrome.
It gets expensive, like bikes. Have you thought about your first acoustic amp yet; and an acoustic soundhole pickup? There is a few hundred right there, but electric acoustics are way easier to play - you don't have to pick so hard.
Or get a "hot rod" electric in pink and an inexpensive amp - way easier to play and learn on than an acoustic and they tend to fall into your hand easier in many cases. Definitely way less bulky, in fact not bulky at all: it will feel like going 150 miles an hour compared to 45.
Glad you re-emerged from cyber space to share in our indulgences!
Neil Young and George Harrison both had electric guitars that were originally painted gold on the top, goldtops, a metallic gold stunning finish; and both guitars were later painted black.
Neil Young's awesome old Les Paul electric was painted black with a paint brush and is probably his most awesome, hot rodded guitar that he owns and plays today. A very special guitar.
The idea of finding a great acoustic you can afford that just "fits" into your hand when playing chords with ease, etc., and having good tone, but is the wrong color; and painting it another color is not a new concept.
Your arm and hand won't hurt. It will be like an extension of your body, so to speak. And paint it any way you want or have it painted - wouldn't cost much, especially when we are talking GAS here.
GAS: guitar acquisition syndrome or gear acq syndrome.
It gets expensive, like bikes. Have you thought about your first acoustic amp yet; and an acoustic soundhole pickup? There is a few hundred right there, but electric acoustics are way easier to play - you don't have to pick so hard.
Or get a "hot rod" electric in pink and an inexpensive amp - way easier to play and learn on than an acoustic and they tend to fall into your hand easier in many cases. Definitely way less bulky, in fact not bulky at all: it will feel like going 150 miles an hour compared to 45.
Glad you re-emerged from cyber space to share in our indulgences!
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I dont know what a pick up is...I dont know anything about amps...do splain lucy..meantime I am trying to play contorsionist and learn chords..
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A pickup is the magical device that takes your sound and transports it to the amp through the ethereal planes contained within a cable.
wikipedia has a nice page on how they work.
(I will now go edit it)
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http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-LUNA-DEAN-D...R-/400147833258?pt=Guitar&hash=item5d2aab61aa
this is the guitar I have my eye on....regarding the pick up...it is something that is external between the guitar and amp? or it is built in a guitar or an amp?....and yes..i will go google it too..
this is the guitar I have my eye on....regarding the pick up...it is something that is external between the guitar and amp? or it is built in a guitar or an amp?....and yes..i will go google it too..
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well I offered them 200 bucks not thinking they would accept it..but they did..so I guess I just bought this guitar...!!
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Cool. . . . ! Congrats!!!
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well not as much as I would like to be..im disheartened and frustrated..im not doing well learning...im sore and bitter!! I cant seem to get my fingers to do what they need to and I wanna give up..but now I bought this...so I cant.
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You're not alone mate. I'm getting frustrated myself because I'm getting old and since I'm disabled I've worsened. My fingers are not very cooperative and songs are slipping away from my memory. Most of the time I just improvise if I ever can get in the mood. What bugs me is that I've just bought an amp.
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Hope that that Luna pink guitar is easy to play and not like trying to pedal a pink mo-ped up a steep hill on a rocky road, when you really want thunder road. That can be what frustrates you and makes it difficult. Hopefully you will be alright. It certainly looks good.
Think about IMMEDIATELY putting on some extra light guage acoustic strings, about seven dollars. They are WAY easier to play, push down on, etc., than thick heavy strings. Look at the fattest string, the one on top when you play: you want this to be as thin as possible. They come in acoustic guages like what are called 10's, 11's, 12's, and 13's.
10's are what you might want because of ease of play and easier on your fingers. The 10 refers to 0.010 of an inch in diameter of the thinnest string on the guitar, the one on the bottom when playing. That's one one hundredth of an inch thick, or ten thousandths of an inch thick (this is where the 10 in the 10 guage comes from: 10/1000ths of an inch diameter), pretty thin indeed and easy to break. You might want to get a couple extra "single" ones, that are about a dollar each and come in very handy and save you the cost of buying a whole new set of strings when you only break one, usually these last two very thin strings.
People sometimes move up from tens toward thirteens as they progress in their playing skills and develop stronger more agile hands; then again some don't change sizes and play very lightly.
Another super excellent idea is that when you get your new guitar take it to a good guitar tech at a good store, that you obviously didn't buy it from - but they don't care - and have it "set up". Let them put the strings on and adjust the neck, nut, bridge and other parts like the tuners for you - things you don't know about but will make the guitar play WAY easier, better, and sound way better. This will add to your playing enjoyment big time.
When you get the guitar look at the bottom of the finger board by the soundhole and see how far the strings are off of the top of the dark brown wood finger board with the frets on it. The strings should not be way up in the air but only about a quarter of an inch above the finger board at the bottom of the fingerboard by the sound hole.
If the strings are a half inch up in the air at that point, have the guitar tech doing the set up bring the strings down lower to the body. This will make it much easier to press down on the strings and easier on your fingertips and hand. Electric guitars typically have the strings much closer to the fingerboard and require way less pressing down on the strings with your fingertips to hit the note.
A set up for a beginner that doesn't know much about what we are talking about will be a MAJOR thing to improve the guitars playability and sound.
Don't forget to put new strings on even if the original ones seem good, because they are probably old, cheap, Asian strings installed by the mfg and will have poor sound to them compared to some new D'darrio acoustic strings, no affln., or Martin strings, etc. Phosphor Bronze strings sound mellower and 80/20 Bronze strings sound brighter and twangier.
You are going to want to get your guitar sounding real good and playing real good. The best guitar shops in town usually have qualified guitar techs that know incredible amounts of things about making a guitar sound good.
Another thing you should definitely consider to purchase when you can is a real good "acoustic" guitar amplifier - not a regular guitar amplifier. Acoustic amplifiers can be found on ebay as well. Some good names are Fishman, AER, Fender, Crate, Marshall - that's about all I can think of right now. A lot of the other ones are not very good sounding and lack MAJOR features.
A good acoustic guitar amp has two "channels" with one that you can plug in a microphone or another guitar if playing with someone like a friend, or having someone else sing. The decent amps have anti feedback circuits to calm down acoustic guitar's amplified sounds which sometimes want to "squeal".
I have a Crate Gunnison which is a nice acoustic amp with a microphone channel and some built in effects and wasn't expensive. Avoid cheap amplifiers.
One rule of thumbs with guitars is: a good amp can make a poor sounding guitar sound great; a junk amp will make a great guitar sound like junk. So the amp is a KEY part of the sound.
If you want to keep up your enthusiasm you should consider getting your guitar set up with extra light strings, get a full set up by a pro tech, and get a decent acoustic amp. The amp will make it easier to play and less tiring on your hand and arm because you will just have to barely touch the strings to get a full loud sound and you will be able to tailor the sound to get a super nice tone.
I hope all this info doesn't turn you off, but it's like motorcycles - there is a lot to learn and it is sort of like a sub culture with it's own language, knowledge base, etc. Know what I mean?
Hope this helps. The Luna looks super cool, but get it set up real good by a pro. You will be very glad you did. Otherwise it will be like an out of tune motorcycle that hasn't had any service at all, wobbley funky tires, bent handlebars, etc.
Good luck with it. Electric guitars are less frustrating and have thinner strings and are way easier to play, if you want to consider one in the future.
Hope that that Luna pink guitar is easy to play and not like trying to pedal a pink mo-ped up a steep hill on a rocky road, when you really want thunder road. That can be what frustrates you and makes it difficult. Hopefully you will be alright. It certainly looks good.
Think about IMMEDIATELY putting on some extra light guage acoustic strings, about seven dollars. They are WAY easier to play, push down on, etc., than thick heavy strings. Look at the fattest string, the one on top when you play: you want this to be as thin as possible. They come in acoustic guages like what are called 10's, 11's, 12's, and 13's.
10's are what you might want because of ease of play and easier on your fingers. The 10 refers to 0.010 of an inch in diameter of the thinnest string on the guitar, the one on the bottom when playing. That's one one hundredth of an inch thick, or ten thousandths of an inch thick (this is where the 10 in the 10 guage comes from: 10/1000ths of an inch diameter), pretty thin indeed and easy to break. You might want to get a couple extra "single" ones, that are about a dollar each and come in very handy and save you the cost of buying a whole new set of strings when you only break one, usually these last two very thin strings.
People sometimes move up from tens toward thirteens as they progress in their playing skills and develop stronger more agile hands; then again some don't change sizes and play very lightly.
Another super excellent idea is that when you get your new guitar take it to a good guitar tech at a good store, that you obviously didn't buy it from - but they don't care - and have it "set up". Let them put the strings on and adjust the neck, nut, bridge and other parts like the tuners for you - things you don't know about but will make the guitar play WAY easier, better, and sound way better. This will add to your playing enjoyment big time.
When you get the guitar look at the bottom of the finger board by the soundhole and see how far the strings are off of the top of the dark brown wood finger board with the frets on it. The strings should not be way up in the air but only about a quarter of an inch above the finger board at the bottom of the fingerboard by the sound hole.
If the strings are a half inch up in the air at that point, have the guitar tech doing the set up bring the strings down lower to the body. This will make it much easier to press down on the strings and easier on your fingertips and hand. Electric guitars typically have the strings much closer to the fingerboard and require way less pressing down on the strings with your fingertips to hit the note.
A set up for a beginner that doesn't know much about what we are talking about will be a MAJOR thing to improve the guitars playability and sound.
Don't forget to put new strings on even if the original ones seem good, because they are probably old, cheap, Asian strings installed by the mfg and will have poor sound to them compared to some new D'darrio acoustic strings, no affln., or Martin strings, etc. Phosphor Bronze strings sound mellower and 80/20 Bronze strings sound brighter and twangier.
You are going to want to get your guitar sounding real good and playing real good. The best guitar shops in town usually have qualified guitar techs that know incredible amounts of things about making a guitar sound good.
Another thing you should definitely consider to purchase when you can is a real good "acoustic" guitar amplifier - not a regular guitar amplifier. Acoustic amplifiers can be found on ebay as well. Some good names are Fishman, AER, Fender, Crate, Marshall - that's about all I can think of right now. A lot of the other ones are not very good sounding and lack MAJOR features.
A good acoustic guitar amp has two "channels" with one that you can plug in a microphone or another guitar if playing with someone like a friend, or having someone else sing. The decent amps have anti feedback circuits to calm down acoustic guitar's amplified sounds which sometimes want to "squeal".
I have a Crate Gunnison which is a nice acoustic amp with a microphone channel and some built in effects and wasn't expensive. Avoid cheap amplifiers.
One rule of thumbs with guitars is: a good amp can make a poor sounding guitar sound great; a junk amp will make a great guitar sound like junk. So the amp is a KEY part of the sound.
If you want to keep up your enthusiasm you should consider getting your guitar set up with extra light strings, get a full set up by a pro tech, and get a decent acoustic amp. The amp will make it easier to play and less tiring on your hand and arm because you will just have to barely touch the strings to get a full loud sound and you will be able to tailor the sound to get a super nice tone.
I hope all this info doesn't turn you off, but it's like motorcycles - there is a lot to learn and it is sort of like a sub culture with it's own language, knowledge base, etc. Know what I mean?
Hope this helps. The Luna looks super cool, but get it set up real good by a pro. You will be very glad you did. Otherwise it will be like an out of tune motorcycle that hasn't had any service at all, wobbley funky tires, bent handlebars, etc.
Good luck with it. Electric guitars are less frustrating and have thinner strings and are way easier to play, if you want to consider one in the future.
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DAMN DUDE!!! Way cool and important advice!! you have my grattitude for sure! I will take your advice!!:dance
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Pink ebay amp
Check this out. This is an EXCELLENT amp, many of us have it. I'm not sure how well it will work with an acoustic but it might be okay.
Thiis is an incredible, thunder road type little amp believe it or not, not a mo-ped.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Vox-DA-5-Portab...704?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27b4a24fe0
You would be able to use this with an electric in the future and might be able to use it with the acoustic because of the small speaker, might not feed back.
Peavey ACOUSTIC guitar amp:
http://cgi.ebay.com/New-Peavey-Ecou...028?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item23091338cc
Marshall acoustic amp:
This is a super good acoustic amp at a decent price right now, you might want to check it out, cover it with pink cloth or something, but a good one:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Marshall-AS50R-...743?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f02c0c63f
I think you will like this, hope it helps.
Check this out. This is an EXCELLENT amp, many of us have it. I'm not sure how well it will work with an acoustic but it might be okay.
Thiis is an incredible, thunder road type little amp believe it or not, not a mo-ped.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Vox-DA-5-Portab...704?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27b4a24fe0
You would be able to use this with an electric in the future and might be able to use it with the acoustic because of the small speaker, might not feed back.
Peavey ACOUSTIC guitar amp:
http://cgi.ebay.com/New-Peavey-Ecou...028?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item23091338cc
Marshall acoustic amp:
This is a super good acoustic amp at a decent price right now, you might want to check it out, cover it with pink cloth or something, but a good one:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Marshall-AS50R-...743?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f02c0c63f
I think you will like this, hope it helps.
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