Well, my guitar is damaged; the body has a small tear on the side that lies on my knee, and two of the nut holes are partially broken (is this the right expression, ‘nut holes’? sounds kinda dirty I mean the places where the strings fit into the nut). The strings still stay in place, so it doesn’t hinder my playing. Also, when I got it, the neck was really loose, and the strings were secured very badly at the end, and two of the tuning keys were broken.
I researched how to repair and set up a guitar, found out that I better not remove my bridge because it’s broken in two (it still works fine), tightened the neck, oiled the whole thing, got a set of new tuning keys and a set of new strings, and set up the guitar according to my research. It is as good as I can make it, and as good as I can afford atm.
I found a few music stores in my city, and will check out if they can do something for my beat-up beauty, and hopefully they can. I didn’t know they might do it for free, thanks for the tip Meanwhile, I have played on two other guitars besides the two in the videos, and one was easier to play, the other more difficult. My friend played on it when we were jamming, and he didn’t say anything about the set up. But he is self-taught as well, so I don’t know if he would know about it.
At the moment, nothing about it frustrates me, or makes me feel like it is too hard. I get a tiny bit of a buzz when I play the open A string too enthusiastically, but that is the only thing I notice that is actively impairing my playing. It is a Hopf guitar, which is apparently a family business going back centuries here in Germany, and since some of their guitars go for, like 300+ euros even used and on ebay, it might not have been too bad of a quality guitar initially? I don’t really know, though.
@HappyCat Glad my difficulties of finding the right words for the guitar parts in English broadened your vocab horizon a little bit