Interesting poll. 12 for me.

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Two selections required.

Played from 1967 (age 13) to 1984 (age 30) or so. Quit. Started playing again in 2010 (age 56).

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Bill

Acoustic off and on thru the decades (started in the 70's when everyone thought they could play smoke on the water) ..Electric for 5 mos. at age 53..obsessively hooked ..I mean as in need a guitar 12 step program! lol

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Mona
"Music is What Feelings Sound like"

sounds like me
started in 1960 at age 6
played until around 1980
got married-had kids- hardly played unti 2002
now i can't stop, playing at least an hour a day

Bought my first two guitars at age 19;

Finally figured out how to play without embarrassing myself at age 37.

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Screamin' Armadillos
Texas Roadhouse Music
Guitar/Slide Guitar/Harp/Vocals

First guitar at 14. Guess I had an advantage in the start, as I related it to the piano , which I had played for several years at that time. Been playing ever since. But surely a bit less during marriage and kids-mostly acoustic during those years. Now I am 55

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A-man

I was about 5 when I first started picking on my Dads Sears Silvertone acoustic. That would of been about 49 years ago. I learned my first chords and would actually consider my beginning in about 1968. I would of been 10.

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Gary

11

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Just think of how awesome a guitar player you could have been by now if you had only spent the last 10 years practicing instead of obsessing over pickups and roasted maple necks.

As Bluesky said, 2 sections required. I started playing an acoustic guitar when I was 18 and kept playing both acoustics and electrics until I started my day job in 1984. I've just started playing seriously again in 2010 when I retired.
I'd kept both an acoustic and an electric guitar during the fallow years and would occasionally take one or the other out and play until my fingers really, really hurt
Now my calluses are back and my fingers no longer hurt

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......it's a topsy-turvy world when noses run and feet smell...

May 6, 1967, I was 12.

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You dig?

Interesting... I also had a long break from playing and then got back into it. For me it was about 8 years in between. It's more fun the second time around!

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Wow Martian! Do you remember the time of day?

It was more like 65 or 66 for me. I really can't remember. All I know is that Mary Traverse was a babe, Dylan had a crappy voice but wrote great songs, Mama Cass had a voice like an angel, and chicks dug guitar players.

Sighhh!

Peace,
Gridlok

Actually, I do. It was 11:00 AM on a Saturday morning. The sun was shining and the birds were singing. My mother drove me to the lesson in our red, 1964 Chevy Bel Air station wagon.

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You dig?

1966 I was 11.

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Life...... It's sexually transmitted and always fatal

I guess life got in the way for a lot of us. I started in '63, age 12, played till '81, age 30. I didn't touch a guitar again until 2010, as I saw 60 approaching. I now try to play an hour per night and jam with everyone that will have me. I'm hoping to be a weekend warrior within the next two years.

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