 At the age of nine, the "first proper guitar" came to the Evans household when the Edge's mother purchased an old acoustic guitar at a jumble sale for a pound.He and Dik both experimented with this instrument, replacing the rusty wire strings with nylon ones and learning to properly play it.The Edge said in 1982 of this early experimentation, "me and my elder brother Dik both played it, plonking away, all very rudimentary stuff, open chords and all that."