

Shop next door came out and mentioned the guitar shop owner Shut, but, just as we were about to leave the owner of the drum To look at a new acoustic instruments shop which had opened

Gives it a good thrashing attempting to do various 'rock' tunes.Īfter a couple of years of a few friends coming round to playĪt my place every Tuesday evening, two of us went into Manchester Turned out to be a Yamaha FG180 - again an instrument which A few monthsįurther down the line and I was repeating the journey to lookįor a steel-strung instrument, which, after much deliberationĪnd nearly losing my left-hand fingers to a steel-strung, largeīodied Giannini with heavy gauge strings (like ship's hawsers), Instruments and the bass response was wonderful. It didn't seem to hurt my fingers as much as the steel-strung The final choice was down to the fact that Instrument with an unusual shape - I later found that this wasĬalled a 'Craviola'. At this stage I didn't know what I was looking forĪt all and after trying a few decided upon a Giannini nylon-strung Into Chester to Dawson's Music Shop and trying a number of guitars The very same potential neighbour problems. Who played any instruments (so I couldn't form a band) and I lived,Īt the time, in a small end terrace house which would have meantĪn acoustic guitar and an electric. Guitar, and drums were out of the question as I knew no one else The most attractive instruments appeared to be drums or To play almost any instrument for about 2 years prior to that Playing acoustic guitar, off and on, since 1974, having wanted
