Have you ever paused to listen for a moment to a musician gently strumming an instrumental acoustic guitar or performing a blazing, soul-stirring flamenco number? The sounds of an instrumental acoustic guitar invoke mystery and a feeling of romance for many people. Most people never stop to consider how versatile and wide-ranging acoustic guitars are, but virtually all people can enjoy the beautiful music they make.
Do you ever wish you knew how to play the guitar? Does walking past one in the store window make you long to walk inside, pick it up, put one hand lovingly around the neck and caress the strings gently with the other, and begin playing a tune? Have you ever thought about how expensive it would be to take lessons? Or how difficult it would be to learn?
Think about your family and friends, and the looks on their faces as you bring your guitar out, as you display to them your newly acquired skill. As you put the guitar back in the case, do you ever think to yourself how great it would be if you only had time in your schedule to learn?
Instrumental acoustic guitars may seem magical, but, of course there isn't really any magic in the instruments themselves. It's their music that enchants you. It's just like when you learned to write during childhood. After a while you mastered it and finally you could take on all sorts of writing assignments. The pencil was the implement to express the thoughts, but you were the one who put it to use. It's like that with an acoustic guitar too. It's the implement you use to make music. And you learn to play a guitar in much the same way you learned to write all those years ago. First you just play around with it, like a kind of doodling. You did drills to practice. Eventually the feeling for it in your fingers just takes over. Soon the music is flowing right through your fingers and into the guitar.
To one who has never played the acoustic guitar, it can be very intimidating even though it is a very compelling instrument. The music produced on a guitar can almost seem larger than life. How incredible that anyone could produce such amazing sounds from such a simple instrument.
Some people may feel nervous with an instrumental acoustic guitar and treat it like fragile glass. So much so, that they forget it is an instrument meant to be played. The music resides within you and is only heard when you actually play the guitar.
If you really want to play and find yourself checking out each instrumental acoustic guitar in the local music stores or even if there's a forgotten one sitting in your attic, pick it up and learn how to play it. You won't be sorry you did.
