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Location: NJ | I am always in search of the best guitar.
I am always in search of the best chord or lead. |
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Posts: 2985
Location: Sydney, Australia | If the guitar is not as good as me, then it is holding me back. SWMBO had an upright piano that she couldn't do trills on, because the mechanism on an upright is more complex than a grand and takes longer to reset. At that point, we upgraded to a baby grand and then to a bigger grand, because the baby didn't have the tonal quality to capture what she was playing.
If my guitars had been of lesser quality, then my playing wouldn't have developed as much. So it will always be better than me, but that's what I like about Ovations. |
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November 2005
Posts: 1126
Location: Omaha, NE | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
I think you need to buy more guitars. You guys already bought them all. |
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March 2005
Posts: 12759
Location: Boise, Idaho | Hardly. Check out the short list thread again and get busy. Al still has some Koa Collectors left. Only 12 of each and there's some left, so we left you plenty. |
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February 2004
Posts: 2487
| I'm.. to sexy for this club...to sexy for this club.............. :cool: |
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April 2006
Posts: 972
Location: PDX | I'd have to say even, .... now.
Used to be a time when i had way too many guitars. Some would just not get played and only take up space. At the peak it was probably 15 guitars. It was nice to have them from a collecting viewpoint, but my perspective has changed.
So i've sold off all but three; my daily player a Collings C10, my outside beater a CFox Sonoma, and my Suhr Telecaster electric.
I'm not a great player, but i don't feel that any of these guitars are "above" my ability by any means. Actually none of the guitars i have owned were "above" my ability - it was the quantity that i could no longer justify.
I just play on the couch so i don't have the needs that public musicians do -- one sound, as long as it is a good one, works just fine for me.
Some day i may find a guitar to replace the C10 (i still cruise the guitar shops), and when i do, i'll sell it.
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July 2008
Posts: 31
Location: Tampa Bay area, FL | I only buy and keep guitars I use professionally...if it isn't out of its case in a month, it gets sold. I guess I've never had 'raccoon syndrome' (collecting shiny objects) :) I don't mind that people do, it just was never important to me...I sold lots of nicer guitars that I simply didn't play. But I am one of those players that gets attached to one or 2 instruments- and no matter what guitar I play, I always have a certain sound I manage to get out of them. |
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