Finlayson D-1G - My Brand New Guitar

Armed with plectrums in our pockets my friend and I went shopping today - I got my first guitar! It's a standard dreadnought style acoustic guitar, but I spent a bit more and got a better quality construction, with better materials and the result is a great sounding instrument. Instead of a laminated spruce front, the Finlayson D-1G has a solid spruce front. It also comes supplied with a hard case.

I went to a shop called Guitar Guitar which has a branch near where I live. I spent a bit more than I planned due to the available stock in the shop. I was looking to spend about £50 less but they either had a cheapish one which you could see was not constructed as well as the one I bought, or the next cheapest one was at the maximum of what I was willing to spend. In fact there was another guitar that we looked at that was a cut-away electric-acoustic, but to be honest it didn't sound a good and I feel I did not need this style of guitar - not for now anyway.

I sneaked this short video on my mobile of my friend playing about with the Finlayson D-1G guitar so I could put it here for you to see.

When the shop assistant came back through with with my new guitar from the stock room, he came through carrying this huge black guitar case. Personally I think it's ugly and would feel happier if came with a better looking soft case, but I suppose that having the hard case will protect it better and I should be happy about that.



Courtesy of GuitarGuitar this the image of my Finlayson D-1G Dreadnought shaped acoustic guitar.



Heading home I was invited back to my friends house for a cup of tea and to show off my new guitar. I got my cup of tea and let Tim tune it in. Once it was was tuned in it still took about 40 minutes before I could get my hands on it. I think he like it.

I was then given a few finger exercises to do and reminded that learning to play the guitar is a painful thing to do and it certainly is. The thing I know I'm defiantly going to struggle with is getting my left hand and fingers to do what look like impossible contortions. Some chords seem easy and some look like there's no way in hell am I going get my hand in that shape to play it. Even with the easiest of chords my fingers keep touching strings they are not suppose to.

My mission now is to learn two or three easy beginner chords. It seem simple enough but its going to hurt like hell and I need to keep my finger nails really.