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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I just did a few calculations. The OFC membership is now almost to 5500. Some members have over 50 guitars, maybe over a hundred. Many have at least a dozen. Good money says every member owns at least one. If the average number owned per member was, say, a conservative four, then there are over 20,000 guitars represented in the OFC membership. This is rather significant. Is there any wonder why there is so much knowledge on these forums? |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Professor, ya got to much time on your hands! |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | The thing i've noticed here is that we are well represeneted by people who use their hands, to somehow strike or stroke a string, whether its guitar, violen, keyboards or samisen.
Unless I'm missing it, we seem not to have too many people who also play either an instrument that depends on breath (voice excepted) or percussion. Which makes sense since we are guitarists, just an observation.
And if you assume that the average time playing for each person is 15 years, then that means we have 82,500 years of experience. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I would question the math. Yeah, 5500 people have registered but many are fly-bys. I would say the active membership is probably half of that. But none the less, yes we do collectively own a lot of guitars. Even if it's 10,000 guitars. At $1000. a pop that's $10 million dollars. Dave |
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Location: Up North | I've noticed that out of the 5500 that around 700 have posted at least one message, that leaves a lot of lurkers out there. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Imagine our influence if we could somehow speak as one voice! |
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Location: big island | "Guitarists for Better Government" yup, that would work... ;) |
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Location: Carle Place, NY | Originally posted by ProfessorBB:
If the average number owned per member was, say, a conservative four, then there are over 20,000 guitars represented in the OFC membership. Good estimate ProfessorBB. I have exactly 4 Ovations. |
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Location: GA USA | Originally posted by Grif:
I've noticed that out of the 5500 that around 700 have posted at least one message, that leaves a lot of lurkers out there. A lot of the non-posters have posted, but the numbers were reset in the directory a while back. So a LOT more than 700 have posted...
Right? |
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Location: Buffalo,NY | I know that a number of us are trying to do are best to drive up the mean and the median!!
Regards,
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Location: New South Wales, Australia | Originally posted by Lanaki:
"Guitarists for Better Government" yup, that would work... ;) I'd vote for us :D |
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Location: Alberta, Canada | Tom, the graph looks pretty even til it gets to you and then it spikes right off the page. :)
I see a lot of Takamines in your list...have you looked at the EF75 threads? You look like a prime candidate for one of these.
Dave |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by Captain_Lovehandles:
Originally posted by Grif:
I've noticed that out of the 5500 that around 700 have posted at least one message, that leaves a lot of lurkers out there. A lot of the non-posters have posted, but the numbers were reset in the directory a while back. So a LOT more than 700 have posted...
Right?
(btw, only 219 of those have 50 or more posts.) |
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Location: big island | Originally posted by Dr.Tom:
I know that a number of us are trying to do are best to drive up the mean and the median!!
Regards,
Tom ! and some are just mean comedians. :D |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | ....Just flying by.....
Identity withheld :cool: |
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Location: boulder | Imagine our influence if we could somehow speak as one voice!
Would it sound like Al's voice?? |
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Location: East Tennessee | Originally posted by an4340:
And if you assume that the average time playing for each person is 15 years, then that means we have 82,500 years of experience. You would think we would be better than we are,
(at least some of us) |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | Originally posted by fugot:
Imagine our influence if we could somehow speak as one voice!
Would it sound like Al's voice??
(Courtesy Captain_Lovehandles, our resident cartoonist) |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | I love that picture... I think Lisa uses it as a screen saver on her phone too..
Back to the stats... regardless of the participation on the site, I think it's safe to assume, as was done, that anyone who registers likely does or did own at least one Ovation. The fact that many of us have not only more than one Ovation, but in general more than one guitar. That adds to even more experience.
Even at the more conservative, we collectively represent at least a couple of million dollars with of guitars. That's pretty impressive by any standard. |
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Guitar Ownership in the OFC