Best Acoustic Guitars

In the 1950’s and 1960’s the acoustic guitar was front and center in the emergence of folk music with bands and musicians like Simon and Garfunkel, Eric Clapton, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, James Taylor, Johnny Cash, and more. Even the originals of Rock and Roll with musicians like Elvis, embraced the acoustic guitar as the messenger of rock. There’s a guitar out there for anyone, whether you’re a beginner or professional shopping for a pro model like the one in our Martin 000 28EC review.

Today the acoustic guitar is still a important part of music even despite the emergence of electronic music. Musicians like Dave Matthews, Jack White and Ed Sheehan feature the acoustic guitar at the heart of their music.

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The acoustic guitar is a famed and ancient instrument. Most of us hear the words “acoustic guitar” and nowadays think of sitting around a campfire with friends having a sing along after learning how to write a song on guitar, or singer songwriters and folk musicians on stage singing with all their hearts of the pleasant sounds of the strumming acoustic guitars.

While those ideas are steeped in reality, the history of the acoustic guitar can be traced back for over 4000 years dating back to the ancient Lute and Lire. In the Middle Ages, Gitterns were developed from the Lute to be one of the first small plucked acoustic guitars, forming the guitar shape that we know and love today.