Consider the pioneer in electric acoustics--Takamine. I checked Guitar Center. Their cheapest new axe is $349, but they had a bunch of used guitars under $300. One of their twelve stringers was the second most perfect acoustic guitar I've ever owned (first being a 1970s Alvarez by K. Yairi, which I still have), but I traded it for my first PC. Ry Cooder recommended Takamine, too, in an interview in the 80s.


"My primary musical instrument is the personal computer."