🌍 Where in the world are you tuning in from?
Quick show of hands. 🎸
The tonebase Guitar community is more global than you'd guess — we've got members across five continents, in cities you'd expect and ones you wouldn't.
💬 Drop a one-line reply:
- Where are you playing from?
- How long have you been playing?
- What's on your stand right now?
That's it. Three lines. Let's see what this community actually looks like in 2026.
61 replies
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Harvard, MA, USA. playing guitar since 1964, classical since 1970, Errollyn Wallen Canciones, Bach Cello #1, new suite by Francine Trester (Berklee). on my stand.
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Johannesburg, South Africa. Playing classical since 1989, although played semi-professionally before that for 10-15 years. On stand: Mazurka (Tansman), Bach Fugue BWV 1001, 4 Seasons (Piazzolla - Assad).
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Hi! I am playing from Germany but I am argentina. I play since 2019 after many many years of Pause and I am learning/ enjoying „ Invierno porteño „ from Astor Piazzolla el grande !!!!
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Hi, I'm 68 from Slovenia. Started playing almost three years ago. Still working on Tarrega's Tango and starting Capricho Arábe.
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I'm from Rochester, NY, USA. I have played guitar since 1982, classical since 1988. Just finishing up Ponce's Chanson (from Sonata III), and barely started Schubert's Standchen (arr. Mertz).
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Vienna, Austria. Playing since 1995, started classical guitar in 2025. On my stand: prelude BWV 1007, Mirándote (Eduardo Martin), Jacinto Chiclana (Piazzolla), Letter from Home (Metheny), Julia Florida (Barrios).
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Princeton, NJ, I've been playing since I was 13. Tres Colores Porteños by Claudia Montero is on my stand, calling me...
I started classical lessons at 15 to "improve my technique" for blues finger picking, but fell in love and never looked back. -
Cumming, GA
Playing since 2020. Played about ten years in the 1980s
Truman Sleeps - Phillip Glass, Bach Prelude BMV 1007
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Koh Samui, Thailand.
40 years off and on.
Bach Gavotte en Rondeau from Bach Partita no. 3
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Denver, CO. Been playing classical since 2008. On stand: Asturias by Albeniz, Prelude No. 1 by Villa Lobos
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New York suburbs. Playing now for 1.5 years but 40 years ago studied seriously for about 10 years but no playing at all in the interim. On my stand Giuliani Opus 71 no 1 sonatina Maestoso, Villa Lobos Prelude 1, Sagreras Maria Lucia, Sor study 5 in B minor and Dowland What if a Day
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Connecticut.
Played guitar in high school and majored in classical guitar in college. Put down the guitar and picked it back up in 2023 when I retired.
On my stand, Morel - Barcarole, Giuliani - Gary Owen and Variations on a Theme by Handel, and Villa-Lobos - Preludes 1 & 4
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I live near Münster in Germany and have been playing classical guitar for just over 20 years. The last two pieces are Andante Largo by Fernando Sor and a Fantasie by Silvius Leopold Weiss.
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Hi, I am from Austria, 58, I started to play guitar around 1982, but took many quite long breaks, I started with classical guitar about 16 years ago. Currently I try to learn Sor op 6, 11 and Bach BWV 1007 Prelude.
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Tulsa, Oklahoma; Got my first guitar in 1962, started classical guitar in 1970; on my stand: 1) music for a show celebrating the music of Antonio Carlos Jobim that happens this Sunday; 2) Frederick Noad's collection of works by Carcassi open to variations on Au Claire de la Lune.
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Hi MZ! I bought my first guitar on Sunday, Oct. 5, 1969. Got a copy of Fred Noad's "Solo Guitar Playing" probably about 10 years later. Didn't start formal CG lessons until about 4 1/2 years ago, after I retired. Working on my crummy arp technique with HVL preludes (mostly prelude 4) and Brouwer Estudios Sencillos IV; coming to you from beautiful Brooklyn NY.
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Sierpc, Poland.
Playing classical guitar since 1972.
Augustin Barrios Mangore - La Catedral, Allegro Solemne -
New Hampshire, USA. Studied guitar (jazz, classical) in college in the 1970s. I got distracted by a 40 year career in software and picked up classical guitar again about 6 years ago. I'm generally working on the pieces I should have learned back in school, the pieces I fell in love with. Currently on the stand: "Allegro Solemne" by Barrios, Tarrega's Mazurkas (inspired by Marcin Dylla's recent video of all 4) and a few short, charming pieces by Ernest Shand.
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Splitting time between USA and Croatia. While spending summers in Croatia, more actively playing guitar and trying to refresh my repertoire; currently working on Asturias, Vals Venezolanos 2-4, Villa Lobos' Choros, Torroba's Madroños, and a few other things. Grateful to be a part of this community...
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Chandler, Arizona, 64 years, mostly Spanish.
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Kendal, United Kingdom. Been playing on and off for over 40 years. Currently looking at Asturias, Coste Les Soirees d'Autueil, Schubert Lob der Thranen Bach Prelude BWV998, Arcas Solea and too many others!
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Tunbridge Wells, UK.
3 years 1968-70, no play 50yrs, re-started 2020.
John Duarte’s English Suite, J S Bach’s BWV 1006a,