How many acoustic guitars do you have/want? How many acoustic guitars do you really need?

[Mike Hickey]

I only have 1. Anytime I've had more than 1 I always like one more than the other so one never got played.

 

[BlueSquirrel]

I only have one. It's a short-scale travel guitar with a cutaway and a preamp inside. It is slightly shorter than a grand auditorium shape so it fits into a classical guitar gigbag.
With its thin neck that feels like an electric's and its small body with a matte finish, it is really comfortable.

As to its sound, it is entirely made of okoume (slightly brighter than mahogany), with a solid top. Unplugged, it sounds OK but doesn't project much due to its small size. Once plugged into an acoustic amp, though, it sounds really good.

To conclude, I love playing it and I also enjoy lending it to kids / teenagers as a starter guitar.

I wish the manufacturer would make a solid top and solid back and sides version of it. It would be fantastic!

 

[Ocean1]

It depends on the day lol. I just never sell them anymore.

I was doing that too. But recently I went into a selling spree and sold everything I wasn't playing.

 

[Mimmo]

I have sold some stuff lately with the intention of keeping only the essentials. Electric wise my #1 is a Fender Telecaster AV52.

Acoustic wise I have these three: Gibson J-45 Original 50s, Adamas 1687-8 GT and a 1976 Ovation Classic 1613.







I also own an Epiphone Masterbilt DR-500 MCE but I never play it as it has been signed.

 

[007]

Have 3 , two 6's and a 12.

 

[Paruwi]

Only one.....
Currently I don't think I need more

I guess I was wrong.....

 

[soulman969]

I have just one. A Takamine GN93CE. Sounds great amplified.

One thing I've always loved about guitars is there's no bag limit on 'em and ya' don't have to throw the small ones back. But I hear some do a kinda catch and release thing most of us refer to as flipping. All things considered there's probably too bloody many guitars but I guess around here we're all doin' our part to keep the world from gettin' over run by 'em. Good public service don't cha know.

 

[Johnny Dubs]

Two.

A 1992 Takamine acoustic/electric (my first purchase) and a 1934 etched National Duolian (I didn’t pay a cent, it was my grandma’s.)

I need them both and want for none.

 

[Johnny Dubs]

I have just one. A Takamine GN93CE. Sounds great amplified.
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One thing I've always loved about guitars is there's no bag limit on 'em and ya' don't have to throw the small ones back. But I hear some do a kinda catch and release thing most of us refer to as flipping. All things considered there's probably too bloody many guitars but I guess around here we're all doin' our part to keep the world from gettin' over run by 'em. Good public service don't cha know.

No limits, no cops.

 

[soulman969]

No limits, no cops.

True.....unless you're married or have a spousal equivalent. They often impose bag limits on guitars. It's so unfair.

 

[3bolt79]

Well, I just did a guitar semi purge. I sold 8 guitars, one of which was my Ovation. I just didn't need it. So for steel string Acoustics, I'm left with my beat up 1983 Ibanez AE405TV and my Taylor 210 Deluxe. I might have another Taylor on the way though.

 

[P-Nutz]

2/2

I have a 1936 Kalamazoo KG-21 that I inherited from my dad, and a beater Washburn I bought for 60 bucks.

 

[Equalphone]

I have two, both 6 string steel.

My "only played indoors" acoustic is a Giannini Craviola, one of the last handmade Brazilian models from the early 90's. All Rosewood sides & book-matched back. It was just before CITES came to town. Mahogany neck. Beautiful guitars.

Stock photo:



The other is a Brownsville A/E. Was the house brand at some large retailer. I think this one was $270 new but I grabbed it used. They don't sell for much now but with a little fret work and a good set of tuners they're actually a very nice playing guitar. It was cheap enough that I don't mind taking it down to the lake or other places that aren't really safe for an acoustic:

Stock photo:

 

[Don E.]

I have one, an Alvarez. That's enough for me.

 

[Charles Carter]

I have one, an Alvarez. That's enough for me.

Nice!
Gotta love a K. Yairi.

As for DILUTE MY ACCOUNT!!!

 

[Solid Paul]

I just have one, and personally I think you only really need one acoustic, unless you are using different tunings a lot. Two acoustics would make sense to me if you also played classical guitar.
Here is what I have right now, a Recording King RD-318 (D-18 clone)

 

[steak&chips]

I can see as strong an argument for having a good range of acoustics, just as much as there is an argument for having a varying range of electric guitars. 6-string, a 12-string, jumbos, dreadnoughts, parlours all have a place. Knowing now what I prefer (after having gone through a number of guitars, some of which I loved and others not so much), if constructing an array of guitars from scratch, I’d go with a majority acoustic. Two hollow body electrics (P90s and Humbuckers), one 6-string jumbo, one 12-string dreadnought, a full mahogany dreadnought and a parlour guitar.

 

[SJS]

I have 4...a 512 Taylor, a beginner level Fender, a Yamaha 60s vintage classical, and my pride and joy...a 1978 Guild G37. The only ones I play are the Guild and the Yamaha. The Taylor is a Taylor. It sounds good but the Guild is fastened to me at the hip. The Fender I'll keep because it was a gift from my cousin who recently passed away. The Yamaha is absolutely stellar. So..if push ever comes to shove, the Guild stays. So do I need the others? Not really but they all have a story.

 

[Mike Hickey]

One good one is plenty. I have enough trouble juggling my different sounding electric guitars. That's the beauty of an acoustic, it is what it is. Get a good one and don't give it a second thought.

 

[Brian Krashpad]

I have 3, two purely acoustic ones and a terrible Esteban acoustic-electric one I picked up from a pawn for almost nothing, literally on the way to do an audition for a church gig I didn't get. I ended up using the latter and the 12-er for my existing church gig. The two purely acoustic ones are the 6-string I learned on (no-name MIJ that had been my dad's), and a beater Yamaha 12-string (Taiwan, '70s).

The two acoustics are in this group shot (the mandolin was one I had borrowed from my Dad at the time; likewise the longneck banjo had been his too).



Here's the Esteban acoustic-electric:



I don't really "need" any of these, as my main band since the '90s plays punk rock and roll. I have used them in prior side band and church band gigs though.