Hi Everyone.

I'm a complete beginner and have just joined GT yesterday. I'm loving the lessons so far and have great confidence that this programme will help me achieve my goal of learning and understanding the Guitar. I've inherited a beautiful vintage Framus Stella (1959) semi acoustic off my Dad and, as I had been thinking about learning the Guitar for a few years now, I decided to take the plunge and learn in memory of my old pops. Looking forward to some hard work and some great times learning.

Welcome to the site! That's a neat looking guitar (I looked it up online). Is it really "semi-acoustic", in that you can plug it in to an amplifier? The ones I saw looked like they were strictly acoustic but that was just the few I found pictures of.

Have fun with the lessons, but also, every day, take a little "me" time with you and your guitar... just play for fun and experiment without worrying about practice or getting things "right"... even if its just for a few minutes a day.

Cheers!

Hi,

Thanks for your post; yes, it is a semi-acoustic that you can plug into an Amp. Pictures on the net show it as a plain acoustic but Framus also sold it with an external electric console with three adjuster knobs and that's the model I've got. At the moment I'm having it restored, nothing serious, just adjustment on a few frets, and I need to do a repair on the Tailpiece then it's 'hot to trot'.