Greetings from the upper midwest

[thin.coyote]

Hi there!  I'm mostly a lurker but I thought I should say hello.  I am just a self-taught beginner (just finished book 1 of the Hal Leonard guitar method; I grew up playing strings so I remembered things about reading music etc.) and I am having a lot of fun.  I started with a Yamaha dreadnought but eventually figured out it was too big for me.  After doing a lot of forum research and many hours in the guitar store I ended up with a Breedlove Passport C250 CMe (full-sized) and I like the tone and size.  I have now figured out that I would prefer a 1 3/4" neck and I really like the Taylor neck feel and the quality up and down the line; I think near the end of this year I can swing something on the order of a GC4 (bright looking pretty guitar with a slightly shorter scale) without angering my wife. 
-Jim

[jjrpilot-admin]

Glad to have you here Jim!  Welcome and please make yourself at home!   

[Cindy]

Hi Jim and welcome to the forum! One advantage of learning music is that a lot of the knowledge can be applied to other instruments. A GC4 is a great guitar...I've thought about getting one of those in the past but wound up with a GA4 instead. Nice to meet you and look forward to hearing more from you!

[barefooter]

Hello thin.coyote,

Glad you signed on.  Taylors are wonderful guitars as are the people behind them.  I don't think you can go wrong with a GC4 and your wife will love listening to you play and sing for her.

[John429]

Hi Jim - so glad you're here Researching the guitar you want and evaluating them is half the fun so enjoy your journey towards selecting your Taylor - be it a GC4 or others. Just out of curiousity, how did you select your name? Ironically, I saw my first coyote here in Michigan last week. I've heard they were around for years, but it was sitting along the road watching me go by.

[thin.coyote]

Hi John, thanks everybody! 
My wife thinks I look like a thin coyote.    Also, I am a fan of Wile E and other Coyotes.  We have a few coyotes here in southern Wisconsin but I almost never see them.

[not darth]

Hi John, thanks everybody! 
My wife thinks I look like a thin coyote.    Also, I am a fan of Wile E and other Coyotes.  We have a few coyotes here in southern Wisconsin but I almost never see them.

That's because they're all up here in MN.  They're killing livestock and driving out other predators such as the fox.     I'm in SE MN and I see one just about every week, and I'm a townie!

Welcome to the forum!

-K