Counting Guitars
Dec. 10th, 2021 09:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billroperI have all of the guitars that I have ever owned, save for two. (Ok, the Baby Taylor is out on loan, but it is still my guitar, just a bit out of position for the moment.)
I do not greatly miss my second guitar, which was a six-string Epiphone acoustic that I got when I was in college. It went to a good home and I really didn't have any further use for it.
My *first* guitar, on the other hand, is the one that I traded in to buy that six-string Epiphone and I dearly wish that I still had it, because it was the one that my parents bought me and that I learned to play guitar on and it would be hideously expensive to replace. It was an early 60s Gibson Melody Maker in bright cherry red, from just before they added the whammy bar. I have no guitar that is particularly like it and the used models are generally both battered and expensive, at least as far as my pretty good Internet search skills have indicated.
And, yes, I *could* buy one of the hideously expensive used guitars and I am sure that I would play it occasionally, but not nearly enough to justify the money or the space that it would take up around here.
It doesn't mean that I don't miss it.
I do not greatly miss my second guitar, which was a six-string Epiphone acoustic that I got when I was in college. It went to a good home and I really didn't have any further use for it.
My *first* guitar, on the other hand, is the one that I traded in to buy that six-string Epiphone and I dearly wish that I still had it, because it was the one that my parents bought me and that I learned to play guitar on and it would be hideously expensive to replace. It was an early 60s Gibson Melody Maker in bright cherry red, from just before they added the whammy bar. I have no guitar that is particularly like it and the used models are generally both battered and expensive, at least as far as my pretty good Internet search skills have indicated.
And, yes, I *could* buy one of the hideously expensive used guitars and I am sure that I would play it occasionally, but not nearly enough to justify the money or the space that it would take up around here.
It doesn't mean that I don't miss it.