GAS and Consequences
Aug. 31st, 2025 09:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billroperGuitar Acquisition Syndrome is a terrible thing. And -- contrary to popular belief -- there *is* such a thing as "too many guitars".
Last weekend, I went down to Tobias Music for their Taylor Custom Event, where they showed off a lot of custom Taylor variants. This was on Sunday, because the Fretboard Summit was in Chicago on Saturday, so the store was closed for the show and many people were in town. A bunch of the Taylor guitars that had been there came out to Tobias for the Sunday event.
I had gotten there early, because I wanted to take a look at the 517 and 717 Gold Label guitars that released recently. They are very nice guitars. Of course, I already own a 717e Builders Edition that I bought back in 2019. And while I was looking at those, the Taylor sales rep pulled a guitar out for me to look at. It was *also* a very nice guitar.
After the show was over, I went into the Taylor room to check on a model that was hanging on the wall there and confirmed that it sounded like I expected it to. And then I asked the owner, Paul, if I could take another look at the guitar that the Taylor sales rep had pulled out for me to look at earlier.
A few minutes later, I was sitting in a chair with that guitar, a 517 Gold Label, and a 717 Gold Label, playing them against each other to see what everything sounded like. And I liked the guitar that the sales rep had pulled out better.
It happens that the last person to play that guitar had been Andy Powers, the Master Guitar Designer for Taylor. I was the next person. And the guitar went home with me.
I cannot tell you what that guitar is right now. I'll get around to it.
In the meantime, adding that guitar to the collection caused me to exceed the maximum reasonable (or perhaps unreasonable) number of guitars that I owned, so one of them would have to leave. It is my second-oldest Taylor, the 710ce-l9 short-scale limited edition with an Englemann spruce top and Indian rosewood back and sides. It is a lovely guitar, but I have not played it very much at all since I got the 717 (also spruce and rosewood), so it has gone down to Tobias Music on consignment and should eventually make its way onto their website.
And the new guitar is sitting in my office now, along with my 326ce and my 326 Baritone-8.
I have a lot of guitars.
Last weekend, I went down to Tobias Music for their Taylor Custom Event, where they showed off a lot of custom Taylor variants. This was on Sunday, because the Fretboard Summit was in Chicago on Saturday, so the store was closed for the show and many people were in town. A bunch of the Taylor guitars that had been there came out to Tobias for the Sunday event.
I had gotten there early, because I wanted to take a look at the 517 and 717 Gold Label guitars that released recently. They are very nice guitars. Of course, I already own a 717e Builders Edition that I bought back in 2019. And while I was looking at those, the Taylor sales rep pulled a guitar out for me to look at. It was *also* a very nice guitar.
After the show was over, I went into the Taylor room to check on a model that was hanging on the wall there and confirmed that it sounded like I expected it to. And then I asked the owner, Paul, if I could take another look at the guitar that the Taylor sales rep had pulled out for me to look at earlier.
A few minutes later, I was sitting in a chair with that guitar, a 517 Gold Label, and a 717 Gold Label, playing them against each other to see what everything sounded like. And I liked the guitar that the sales rep had pulled out better.
It happens that the last person to play that guitar had been Andy Powers, the Master Guitar Designer for Taylor. I was the next person. And the guitar went home with me.
I cannot tell you what that guitar is right now. I'll get around to it.
In the meantime, adding that guitar to the collection caused me to exceed the maximum reasonable (or perhaps unreasonable) number of guitars that I owned, so one of them would have to leave. It is my second-oldest Taylor, the 710ce-l9 short-scale limited edition with an Englemann spruce top and Indian rosewood back and sides. It is a lovely guitar, but I have not played it very much at all since I got the 717 (also spruce and rosewood), so it has gone down to Tobias Music on consignment and should eventually make its way onto their website.
And the new guitar is sitting in my office now, along with my 326ce and my 326 Baritone-8.
I have a lot of guitars.
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Date: 2025-09-02 11:28 pm (UTC)(For those of you who know of whom I speak, you will understand instantly why this was funny...)