I want to start playing acoustic-electric guitar. What kind of brands or guitars

Question: I want to start playing acoustic-electric guitar!. What kind of brands or guitars are the best for beginners!?
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Go for a chinese made ibanez!.!. And when I say that, I am 100% sure of my word! All chinese ibanez semi-acoustic guitars are cheap, excellent and even reliable on stage!

Stay away from fender, the pick ups aren't that great on their cheap guitars!.!.

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how much can you afford!? sounds as if you need to find a guitar shop!. but if you plan on keeping it and playing it forever try a Gibson!. Martin, Guild, as they don't make a cheap Chinese guitar that I know of under that brand name, but if you look you can find hundreds of Chinese boxes that are playable, check Seagull out, Canadian made around $600 real nice for the price, but as affordable goes Ibanez, Yamaha, Talkmine(Chinese Martin) Fender,mostly Chinese unless high end, (buy the Guild owned by Fender made in US and is a superior box for the 1k+ price tag,) Gibson does the Epoch(made in China) there all decent boxes in that 2 to 3 hundred dollar price range but you'll get what you pay for!.
then there's the $99!.99 special, BEWARE!!Www@QuestionHome@Com

I'd go with a cheap epiphone, which is a branch of gibson!. Just incase you end up not liking it!. I have an eletric acoustic epiphone AJ100CE!. It's pretty good an only 160 bucks!. www!.musiciansfriend!.com has good prices!.Www@QuestionHome@Com