So who here is a guitar player?

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I'm a guitar player of five years, five on a lefty, two and a half on a righty, my favorite styles consist of the fast and the furious, as well as rock-oriented rhythm. Oh, I'm an electric player

Who else here? How long? What type of guitar do you have? What do you like to play?

I have been playing guitar since I was about 15 (i am 32)..but never very well...I have awful coordination and fine motor skills..
I am a lefty who plays right-handed guitar. I tried to learn lefty, but found it almost impossible.

These days I play ukulele mostly.

When I did play more guitar, I had several different ones....electric...i had an Ovation solid body electric called a Viper..but it got stolen.
For a while I played a Gibson Marauder but I gave it away to a friend (it had been one of his best friends guitars..i still miss it)

My last acoustic was a green guitar made in Canada...I think it was an Art & Luthrie...and um......well.......gee....

When I do play guitar these days, I usually play my boyfriend's travel-sized Takameme acoustic.

electric guitar for 18 months
bass guitar for 3 months

I ve been playing ever since I traced my natural mum (she used to play with Donoavan in the sixties)

I love picking it up and just gently plucking the strings sometimes, I love the vibration and the smell of the wood, it becomes for me at times the most lovely way of stimming

Yar me be one as well... been playing for over 4 years or something... lol.

been playing guitar for 30 years or so

I also play mandolin and have an interest in middle-eastern music so I play oud and saz as well

I put a link to my Myspace on the musician's showcase, nobody's come back yet but if you want to hear some of what I do here it is again


http://www.myspace.com/morrinmusic

I got my Ibanez electric a year ago and love to mess about with it. . .

wouldn't call myself a musician really, about that, though.

Even though, it is so much fun. . .

I play electric bass. Peavey Foundations are my favorite bass (I have two: one black, one white) because they are (or were, anyway) 1) made in the USA and 2) affordable, at least used.
I heart Peavey!

I play guitar, or rather played fairly well years ago. I still play, but really don't have the focus or drive to put any effort into it right now.

Here's what I currently have for gear:

GUITAR
Godin LG, Mahogany neck/body, bolt on neck, seymout duncan humbucher pickups w/Alnico magnets. It does the Gibson thing cheap with dubious quality. --I plan to get something better at some point, hopefully an older Gibson.

AMPS/CABS

Diezel VH-4 100 watt tube head. 4 Channels ranging from clean to really high gain. Built in Midi Switching. --Soldano's German competition.

Ampeg V4 100 watt tube head. It's actually a VT-22 Chassis, but these were still the same amps. An old one from @ 1970-1972 with the blue slikscreened control panel. It's a chassis that I got cheap and appears to be pretty much there. Needs Headbox, a few more tubes, and most likely new Filter caps, as they appear to have electrolyte leaking from the terminals.

Seymore Duncan Convertable 100. 100 Watt Tube amp. I have two of them, one of them is a chassis I got cheap, and the other is in the proper 1x12" Combo enclosure. I switched chassis when I fried a grid resistor and killed a set of tubes. They have modular preamps. I have 7 tube modules, and one FET module.

Nolan 100 watt tube head. This one is a basket case I got cheap. Nolan was a English firm based in the Hammersmith section of London in the late 60's early 70's. The founder, Patrick Nolan was a former employee of Selmer Truvoice amps, before founding his own company. The original Nolan Circuit was a copy of a tweed Fender with a British (IE, EL34) output section, mine was gutted and has what appears to be a Hoffman PTP copy of a Marshall Superlead circuit, and a choke installed ( the original was a chokeless design, and the big flameproof resistor is still there). The headbox looks a lot like those used by Sound City/ Hiwatt, as well as a few other British manufacturers, but is made from particleboard instead of proper baltic birch. The headbox was damaged in transit. This amp is quite rare in the UK/ Europe, and even rarer in North America. Mine has a plexiglas/perspex control panel, and appears to be a very early one. --Should sound phenominal when fixed.

Marshall 4x12" Speaker cabinet. Mine appears to be a transitional model from late 1976. It has the current style cabinet without corner protectors, old Levant style tolex on the cabinet, but current style 'Elephant Grain' tolex on the back panel. Also, the checkerboard style grillecloth was replaced with Late 60's through 1971 style Salt and Pepper basketweave grillecloth. --The cabinet looks to be every year of it's age due to heavy use /abuse.

Bogen CHB35 35 watt Tube PA head from the late 60's. I'll get around to converting it for guitar usage at some point.

OTHER STUFF:

Celestion G12H-80 speaker, (Blown by me, and in need of a recone) that has an addtional smaller label claiming to be a G12H-90. One of the last UK made Celestions, they are now sadly made in China. This one has a black painted frame, indicating that it's for Line6 and other transistorised modelling amps.

ART SGE Multifex unit from 1988. IT's a cheap 16 bit effects unit.

Various and sundry 12AX7 and 12AU7 preamp tubes. Most are old stock from the 60's.

Just started learning guitar, probably been playing two weeks. I'm gonna start learning a few simple rock songs. I like classical guitar, but it seems difficult. As of now, I only do accoustic.

I play. Self taught mostly, don't read tab and have been playing since the age of 5.

I'm also a lefty but only ever attempted to play right-handed. I went through most of my school years as a second violin in the school orchestra, and made a switch to guitar when I got my first mexican Strat at 16. My approach to playing the guitar was very much informed by those years of attempting to play the violin (truth be told, I didn't practice much). Due to motor coordination deficits I was never too handy or interested in rhythym parts and billed myself as a more melody-centric lead guitarist, but it never went too far. I'm 28 now, and I'd love a chance to develop my skills further and collaborate with other musicians, but whether it will play out that way remains to be seen. I've always been interested in improvisation and my tastes can run to the obstinately obscure, so it's always been hard to find like-minded musicians (most guitar players I met were a pretty orthodox bunch, sadly).

Been a guitarist forrrrr...twelve years? Eleven years? More than a decade at any rate. I'm extremely happy with where I am. I've been sort of haphazardly trying to play left handed, but honsetly Im more bothered about learning to play other instruments.