After listening to a superb blues guitar performance, one of the most common questions that is posed by the people listening is 'what make of guitar are you playing' ? This reflects a common misconception about a guitarist's performance, basically that it's the guitar rather than the musician that makes the music! Never mind all the guitar lessons and hundreds of hours of practice!
Every guitarist dreams of having the best quality and most expensive instrument, and somehow think that it will improve their skill level. Naturally it helps to play a very excellent guitar, but a good guitarist will get a great sound out of most any instrument, more or less. It's fairly safe to say that you can purchase a good quality guitar for several hundred dollars these days, and for most purposes, it will be OK. The difference between an instrument costing 500 dollars and another priced at 2000 is very little.
Of course, it all depends on the instrument, and there are normally exceptions at either extreme. For instance, Vintage market a parlor guitar which costs well under $200 which was given the 'Best Parlor Guitar Less Than $1000' award from Acoustic Guitar Magazine several years ago. On the other hand, I went to visit an acquaintance who had no less than five expensive Martin guitars of various ages, and none of them were that 'special'.
It additionally depends on what you use the guitar for. If you perform acoustically to a really appreciative audience, then the tone and harmonics are vital to the overall effect. Nonetheless, if you use the instrument amplified by a pickup inside the guitar or located under the saddle, then the finer features of the fabrication intended to improve the
acoustic guitar sound are just wasted.
The best advice is to spend over $200 and less than $800. You will definitely get something between those limits that will fit your style. Search prudently, and consider a decent second hand instrument, if you are sure it has been looked after. Not long ago I saw an advert on Ebay for an ancient Stella guitar which sold for a few hundred dollars. Of course, it might not sound like a top range instrument, but it's a piece of history and I bet it was a very mellow blues guitar. It definitely looked wonderful.
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