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Location: Illinois, U.S.A. | This is not a question of which guitar you would own if you could, or which guitar in your collection is your favorite-sounding or best-looking. Which guitar do you keep out on the stand at home for a quick relaxing moment as the opportunity presents itself.
Mine is a thirty-year-old, made-in-Japan, nylon-stringed Takamine C-128 I bought used on eBay for $212 .... I play it every day. Thirty years of aging seems to have compensated for its humble construction. My other gems I keep cased, and retriving one is more of a ritual, so they don't get played as often. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Varies over time. Currently it's a U681-12str, but lately a Martin 1T tenor uke and an OM-42 have been getting a lot of play. The OA is on the chair in back of me, since I only got it yesterday it's benefiting from the newness factor. Dave |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | most of mine are on walls within easy reach |
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Location: NJ | captain morgan private stock |
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Location: south east Michigan | My guitars are all always within easy reach.... along with the remote. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | IBM laptop. Guitars are on the wall like Jeff's. |
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| corner workstation.. 1114, 1613, 1885, 1111, on racks on wall on either side.... breadwinner, UKXII in stands on either side of my seat... ac60 amp on one side... Rock PetrosI woody on the other.. 6 channel mixer on the desk...ag and dg stomp under the desk w/expression pedals.. e-mu card digital/midi card in the computer.. and a midi keyboard/workstation on a slide-out under the desktop...
that's my 10x10 section of the house.
Glenn |
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Location: closely held secret | A 1581, 1624, 87C, 6758LX and Viper electric hang on the walls of my music/computer room, surrounding my chair, within easy reach. Usually the 87C gets picked, or the Viper (unplugged) when I need to in the early morning. |
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Location: PDX | Collings C-10 and my CFox Sonoma.
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | I don't have one next to the chair, but I keep my classical along side of the bed. The wife likes it when I play it in the dark. The others stay in humidified cases until I take them out to play. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | At this Moment? CC44, CC255, 1112 to my Left, and the Lyon Psuedo-Strat on the other side.
(I just got an old Pignose in the mail, had to try it out) |
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Location: Scotland | Right now it's the remnants of a really good bottle of Rioja. |
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Location: Caribou, ME | It varies but at the moment....
1998 Seagull S-6 cedar
70s Applause AA14
c. 1900 Bay State parlor guitar
1989 Gibson J-200
1960s Egmond 335 style
Severely beat to crap 1920s 3/4 Czech violin
My wife makes me move them but over the course of a few days some of the 40 or 50 creep back into the living room.... |
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Location: East Tennessee | A 1624 and a 000X1 are within reach.
I'm waiting for a 1114 to arrive next week. I'll have to move the Martin then. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | 1187-247 87! |
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Location: Cherry Hill, NJ | In my family room, I have my 1868T, on a stand, and pick it up often. In my music room, all my guitars, electrics and acoustics, hang on the wall for easy access. |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | all are nearby, but currently it's the the UTE 6-stringer. Beside it is the 1658CL. Life is good. |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Principle of Rotation.. :)
Vic
most often the 1537 within reach.... |
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Location: Keller, TX | Hanging on the wall within reach:
Custom 2080 12 fret
Adamas Millenium
Legend 1777LX-4
Ibanez SZ720 Electric
Peavy Grind NTB Bass
In the closet, in the case for protection from the 2 year old, 8 year old, 12 year old, and 15 year old and their mother and their friends, taken out frequently for playing and viewing:
Takamine EF75 |
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Location: Tidal Mudflats of Virginia | The widenecks have been getting all the attention lately; OFC, Ute & the Fudd |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Right now, a bottle of Reisling from Dr. Frank's Winery. |
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Location: NJ | A '77 C136S Takamine classical that Beal had pulled outta' Charlie's basement.
It's just such a light, comfortable guitar t'play when you're used to heavy roundbacks. It's like cradling a small animal, and puts out such a BIG sound for it's relative size. It's an awesome fingerstyle guitar. I mainly use it for figuring/working out tunes. It's great for traveling too, as it's (in a padded gigbag) very airplane-friendly & doesn't take up a lot of space in a loaded car. |
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Location: NJ | . . . oh, and (right now, anyway) a healthy snifter of GrandMarnier. |
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Location: Texas | my Takamine classical . . .
. . . and a bottle of Jack D. |
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Location: Nashville, TN | My new Hohner Eclipse..Hohner 4 string acoustic bass..& Hohner GM-70...but I play my natural Viper on gigs almost every day:-) |
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | On the stand next to the bed, Viper electric (for playing at night). On the wall hanger just inside the door...that varies, currently a 97 Collector's. I have a very pretty Tacoma Koa EKK9C on the way that will take that spot for a while. |
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Location: Utah | All my guitars are cased. It's always been that way since I got my first real guitar at age 10 or so. Nowadays with kids and dogs in the house it seems too hazardous to leave nice instruments out. And I don't want to play a crappy instrument.
It's easy enough to pull out a guitar to play. My current favorite is a Hohner G3T broomstick or the daughter's 1778 Elite T. |
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Location: Illinois, U.S.A. | Originally posted by FlySig:
(snip, snip) Nowadays with kids and dogs in the house it seems too hazardous to leave nice instruments out. (snip,snip) My puppy once tried to mouth a guitar I had on a stand during her teething phase. My right foot launched into automatic counter-attack and lauched her butt into the air, over her thick skull, and flipped her over in a somersault.
Pretty much, she avoids guitars in the stand nowadays. ;) |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by Tiednbound:
My puppy once tried to mouth a guitar I had on a stand during her teething phase. My right foot launched into automatic counter-attack and lauched her butt into the air, over her thick skull, and flipped her over in a somersault.
Pretty much, she avoids guitars in the stand nowadays. ;) Funny... I did the very same thing to my brother's-girlfriend's infant grandchild. Taught that li'l fu¢ker a quick lesson. |
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Location: SoCal | I have a godin multiac nylon and a yamaha silent nylon hanging behind my chair in the family room. All the rest are in the music room. |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | Since the accident that gave Gertrude her extra "sound vent," mine all stay cased. Jewel (s/s LX) is the one who gets played all the time, except when the yearning for a big boomy sound, wonderful neck and DADGAD overwhelm me and I play Gertrude (and live with the resulting pain.)
I play Plink (cheapie mando) quite a bit now, too.
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Location: Boise, Idaho | In the family room, the 30th Anniversary Custom Legend. It's actually in reach of the couch, because the lazy boy's arms are too big to play the guitar. Down in the music room all the rest are in reach and the old recliner's arms are so flattened out that I can play guitar in the chair. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | In the home office I'll grab #47 or the Millenium for acoustics and the Viper for a solidbody.
And a nice singlemalt scotch... currently taste testing and haven't settled on one yet... any suggestions? |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | And a nice singlemalt scotch... currently taste testing and haven't settled on one yet... any suggestions? As long as it`s speyside,... :)
Vic
..Aberlour,and if not available..Glenfiddich.. |
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Location: NJ | THE Glenfiddich.
y'can try Talisker, as well . . . |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Glenrothes
-Simply the finest single malt, I've ever purchased in the US. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Thanks for the suggestions. Glenfiddich is up next as I happen to have a bottle here.
Also have:
Balvenie 15 (the one that Jason enjoyed so much at the tour)
Balvenie 12
Macallan 12
Lagavulin 16
I better start keeping notes or I'll never remember what I thought of them! |
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Location: Gardnerville, NV | Laphroaig 15 is my current favorite tat I can afford. If money isn't an issue its hard to beat a 25 year old Macallan. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Everything is within easy reach on the walls with two exceptions, my Legend Ltd 1651 and '99 American Standard Strat with SRV Texas Specials, both of which remain in stands alongside the guitar stool in front of the music stands. |
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Location: big island | before i sold it, the taylor big baby was always out of its case and close at hand. it handled hawaii's climate well, played like melted butter and sounded great for a $350 guitar. i like to play guitar propped up while lying in bed in the evenings and roundbacks don't work so well in this position without bending a knee up to hold it in place. with the exception of the snake t-bolt on loan from musicmike, i am down to two guitars. of those two, the takamine EF75 is certainly the most comfortable and easiest to play in my preferred posture. it is also a great serenading-the-wife guitar :D
(it has to stay in its case when not in use though) |
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Location: Midland, MI | On the stand (inside the door to the master bedroom) is a beautisimous 1681. Next to my comfy chair in the family room, not on a stand, but leaning up against the arm of said chair at all times for the last, uh, long time, is a first-run Heritage H137D.
The 1681 gets played first thing in the morning, and last thing at night. The H137D gets played the rest of the time. Unless I'm teaching Parker (now 15 months) to strum the uke (which is stashed conveniently behind said comfy chair). |
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What's on the stand next to YOUR favorite chair?