Best Buy Classical Guitars For Beginners
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Best Value Guitars For Beginners
Do you wonder what is the best value classical guitar for a beginner? Even though these guitars are so affordable, getting the best value classical guitar can be a minefield for beginner guitarists or parents.
Classical guitars all look the same, so where do you start with buying a classical guitar on a budget? Buying a guitar might not be as simple as you first thought.
How can you buy a good beginner classical guitar? Guitars have mysterious specifications and technical jargon from the manufacturers and what looks like a good deal in guitars may not be. Manufacturers do really bad things like using "classical guitar" as a description for a steel strung acoustic just to get more keywords and this is confusing too. As a professional guitarist and teacher I often have parents asking advice and I have experience in playing many guitars of all types. I have put this page together to show what I think are a few good deals in buying classical guitars for older beginners. These classical guitars are nearly all full size and available in the USA. There is a companion page for UK guitar buyers on my website too:
Full Size Classical Guitars
And this is the equivalent page for electric guitars in the UK:
Electric Guitars For All
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Contents at a Glance
Buy Budget Classical Guitars
Classical Guitars under $70
Classical Guitar Tutors
More Budget Classical Guitars
Classical Guitars under $100
Footstools for Classical Guitarists
A comfortable playing position needs a footrest
Unless you are happy to rest your left foot on a pile of library books, I would recommend a good quality stable footstool. It improves the playing position by making it more easy and comfortable to hold the guitar correctly. My personal preference would be for a handmade footstool for home use because of its stability, but adjustable footstools take care of varied seat heights and leg lengths!
Beginner Classical Guitars from $100 to $140
Good Value Budget Guitars Under $140
Hard Cases for Classical Guitars
Protect your classical guitar with a hard shell guitar case
The best investment you can make if you buy a nice quality classical guitar is a good quality case. Here are some bargains in hard shell cases on Ebay. Some even include guitars...
Good Value Intermediate Guitars
Classical Guitars from $140 to $200
Looking for beginner classical guitars in the UK?
These pages show a comparable range of products on Amazon UK
Great classical guitars at affordable prices
Three excellent intermediate classical guitars at $199
Music and Classical Guitar TAB for Beginners
Books For Classical Guitar By This Author
Only in my dreams....
Superb concert classical guitars from Takamine and Ramirez
I retired my Takamine concert when it got attacked by a music stand. This broke my heart! Maybe one day I will be able to afford a new one or perhaps that George Harrison Ramirez? I played a Ramirez with cutaway at Hanks music in London but fortunately I forgot my cheque book....
Buying Beginner Guitars
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I do hope you found this page helpful and that you might check out some of my other guitar pages. Playing and teaching the guitar has been my life's work, so if I can help I am happy to do so. Thank you for visiting this page.
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Michael22541
Mar 24, 2012 @ 11:29 pm | delete
- Thank you for your suggestions. I'm doing research on a guitar and it one keeps appearing, The Yamaha C40, I have read more positive reviews on the C40 than any other, your other choices have giving me a wider playing field.
Thank you for taking the time to gives us prospective Classical guitar students so many choices.
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Edutopia
Jan 30, 2012 @ 9:00 pm | delete
- The Yamaha C40 is an excellent beginner guitar to learn your classical chops on. It was my first nylon stringed guitar and I've never regretted owning it. Great lens!
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Emilio
Jan 14, 2012 @ 2:30 am | delete
- Excellent!!
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COUNTRYLUTHIER
Oct 15, 2011 @ 10:11 pm | delete
- You have a very good lense here. THanks for sharing about guitars that make people dream of playing.
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Waxing-Lyrical Sep 17, 2011 @ 3:34 pm | delete
- Great resource for classical guitar beginners!
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anilsaini
Sep 12, 2011 @ 3:06 am | delete
- nice lens
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jseven
Sep 11, 2011 @ 4:13 pm | delete
- You covered everything anyone who plays or wants to play classical guitar. My son plays and I love to listen to him. Great looking lens!
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Sojourn
Sep 11, 2011 @ 1:33 am | delete
- LOL on the stack of books under foot! ;) Great overview of classical guitars for beginners. Getting started is half the battle, my mom used to say. She played for years and still strums for us every now and then.
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YayasHome
Sep 10, 2011 @ 10:18 pm | delete
- This is remarkable. I would love to have known you a few months ago, when we were trying to find a guitar for one 'uh my grandies. I think it may have been very uncomfortable for him an' this eventually prompted him to set it down an' walk away. He actually gave it to his little brother, so there is still hope. Also, Little Brother is completely enjoying the guitar he was given. Thanks for such great pointers. I do hope you are able to get another Takamine or some other sweet guitar that you would enjoy. :)
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Wednesday_Elf
Sep 10, 2011 @ 5:43 pm | delete
- Great list of guitar recommendations for those 'budding' classical guitarists who want to 'begin' playing, but don't want to spend a lot until they know how well they do.
I was once visiting a friend when her friend, a superb 'classical guitarist' stopped by (with his guitar) and played an 'impromptu concert for us. It was some of the most beautiful music I've ever heard. He was 'amazing'.
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