Looking for a list of various model parlor guitars Guild has produced over the years.
My daughter (11) has just started playing. She's small and has a lot difficulty with the size of my D4. I shopped around for 3/4 size acoustics before Christmas, and after trying many including Martin, Taylor, Seagull, Luna, Yamaha etc., landed on a Fender. After playing all of them, the baby Martin stood out as the best sounding of the bunch, the Fender and Yamaha (both very surprisingly) came in a distant second, and the Taylor, Seagull, and Luna rounded out the bottom sounding more like something you might find in a toy store than an actual musical instrument. After trying all, the Fender ticked all of the boxes in terms of sound quality/price ratio, aesthetics (very important for an 11yo girl!), and apparent build quality. The small price tag was particularly attractive for a starter guitar for a tween that may (or may not) stick with playing.
Fast forward one month, four lessons, and lots of playing time with Dad, and my daughter is taking to guitar like a duck to water. And while she really likes the size of her current guitar, she has asked repeatedly why it doesn't sound as good as mine. The other evening she asked me if she could get a Guild! I told her that I was pretty sure that Guild made some parlor guitars (thinking F20/M20), but I wasn't sure exactly how much variety there might be to choose from.
Looking at https://parlor.guitars/list, there is only one Guild listed in their database (the M20). However, it looks like their database lists only current models. Are there any other current (or vintage) Guild parlor guitar models?
I'm not sure that my daughter is old enough to be entrusted with a vintage or relatively expensive instrument, so I'm on the fence about exactly when I'd do this, but I think a good quality parlor guitar would be a great instrument for her to grow into. And if nothing else, it would add another Guild to the mix for me to play every once in a while.
My daughter (11) has just started playing. She's small and has a lot difficulty with the size of my D4. I shopped around for 3/4 size acoustics before Christmas, and after trying many including Martin, Taylor, Seagull, Luna, Yamaha etc., landed on a Fender. After playing all of them, the baby Martin stood out as the best sounding of the bunch, the Fender and Yamaha (both very surprisingly) came in a distant second, and the Taylor, Seagull, and Luna rounded out the bottom sounding more like something you might find in a toy store than an actual musical instrument. After trying all, the Fender ticked all of the boxes in terms of sound quality/price ratio, aesthetics (very important for an 11yo girl!), and apparent build quality. The small price tag was particularly attractive for a starter guitar for a tween that may (or may not) stick with playing.
Fast forward one month, four lessons, and lots of playing time with Dad, and my daughter is taking to guitar like a duck to water. And while she really likes the size of her current guitar, she has asked repeatedly why it doesn't sound as good as mine. The other evening she asked me if she could get a Guild! I told her that I was pretty sure that Guild made some parlor guitars (thinking F20/M20), but I wasn't sure exactly how much variety there might be to choose from.
Looking at https://parlor.guitars/list, there is only one Guild listed in their database (the M20). However, it looks like their database lists only current models. Are there any other current (or vintage) Guild parlor guitar models?
I'm not sure that my daughter is old enough to be entrusted with a vintage or relatively expensive instrument, so I'm on the fence about exactly when I'd do this, but I think a good quality parlor guitar would be a great instrument for her to grow into. And if nothing else, it would add another Guild to the mix for me to play every once in a while.