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Post by bob61 on Jun 29, 2017 13:28:55 GMT
A very good friend of mine bought a beautiful Mcillroy Guitar about 9 years ago for the pricely sum of £2800 and very rarely takes it from it's case....he has the money to buy these expensive instruments but what a criminal waste...just my opinion
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Post by vikingblues on Jun 29, 2017 13:59:01 GMT
I would tend to agree. It seems a shame that a beautiful guitar should not be allowed to sing. A terrible waste of all the effort that went into the miracle of its creation. Mark
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Post by Martin on Jun 29, 2017 15:24:01 GMT
It does seem a waste, yes. Then again, you could offer to 'borrow' it, telling him that regular playing keeps it in tiptop playing condition
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Post by malcolm on Jun 29, 2017 21:52:19 GMT
I know a number of people who can't resist buying high end guitars but really don't play them very often. If I'm not playing a guitar much I always try to move it on, but sure we're all different.
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Post by andyhowell on Jun 29, 2017 22:02:27 GMT
A very good friend of mine bought a beautiful Mcillroy Guitar about 9 years ago for the pricely sum of £2800 and very rarely takes it from it's case....he has the money to buy these expensive instruments but what a criminal waste...just my opinion I agree totally but .... .... This assumes that all high end builders and building guitars that they assume will be played regularly. I'm not so sure. Are some building expensive trinkets that are designed for sale or to be at the heart of collections? A great guitar sitting in an box most of the time is a very sad thing indeed.
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Post by bob61 on Jun 30, 2017 5:50:50 GMT
I only have my Norman Acoustic bought it roughly 20 years ago for the pricely sum of £250 a lot of money for me back then with a family to support....it's a beautiful sounding guitar and it's the only Guitar i would never part with to me it's priceless
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Post by dreadnought28 on Jul 2, 2017 7:48:21 GMT
A very good friend of mine bought a beautiful Mcillroy Guitar about 9 years ago for the pricely sum of £2800 and very rarely takes it from it's case....he has the money to buy these expensive instruments but what a criminal waste...just my opinion I agree totally but .... .... This assumes that all high end builders and building guitars that they assume will be played regularly. I'm not so sure. Are some building expensive trinkets that are designed for sale or to be at the heart of collections? A great guitar sitting in an box most of the time is a very sad thing indeed. I guess I'm in that category as I literally don't have time to give 23 guitars the time they all deserve. Dear oh dear, I guess I should feel guilty?
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Post by andyhowell on Jul 2, 2017 14:04:21 GMT
I agree totally but .... .... This assumes that all high end builders and building guitars that they assume will be played regularly. I'm not so sure. Are some building expensive trinkets that are designed for sale or to be at the heart of collections? A great guitar sitting in an box most of the time is a very sad thing indeed. I guess I'm in that category as I literally don't have time to give 23 guitars the time they all deserve. Dear oh dear, I guess I should feel guilty? Nonsense Chris. We know you do little else Except play those guitars :-)
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Post by martin130161 on Jul 10, 2017 16:22:26 GMT
I was a huge Steve Howe fan, and used to think it would be great to have even a modest collection of a nice round number of, say, 20 guitars. I never did reach that total (well, unless you add up all those instruments that have come and gone over the years!), and today I find it difficult to play and maintain 'all' those that I do have, even putting in an average of 2-3 hours' practise a day. As a consequence, there are a couple of Lowdens over at my Mum's (one a lovely 025C that has NEVER been gigged/out of the house), and my original Brook (a beautiful custom slot-head Tamar STILL, I'm ashamed to say, with the original strings on from when I bought her in 2010. That's no reflection on my love for that particular guitar, by the way - it's just that I really can't play all the instruments I have to the extent that they deserve to be played/enjoyed. I do understand the GAS aspect of collecting wonderful instruments - and, heaven forbid, I'm already thinking about the NEXT guitar I'd like Kevin Aram to build me, only a couple of months after collecting a sublime classical I've waited three years for from his workshop. But I also truly believe that these instruments - as much as so many of them are real works of art - really do need to be being regularly played, and enjoyed, and I intend that those in my own collection that currently languish in their cases in silence - and bought in mad moments of acquisitive excess - will one day find owners who will play the heck out of them and love them to bits. By contrast, I never tire of seeing Pierre Bensusan making beautiful music with his road-worn original 'Old Lady', who clearly still holds a special place in his heart, for all the signature prototypes he must have at home…I mean, look at those patches of what look like pooled superglue on the front…but listen to the sound!
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Post by Akquarius on Jul 10, 2017 16:25:12 GMT
It does seem a waste, yes. Then again, you could offer to 'borrow' it, telling him that regular playing keeps it in tiptop playing condition wouldn't that even be a kind of enhancement in value? you could borrow the guitar and charge him for playing it
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Post by bob61 on Jul 18, 2017 11:48:49 GMT
It does seem a waste, yes. Then again, you could offer to 'borrow' it, telling him that regular playing keeps it in tiptop playing condition wouldn't that even be a kind of enhancement in value? you could borrow the guitar and charge him for playing it I doubt that very much fellas i asked him again the other day he said he occasionally plays it but his main guitar he uses is a rather modest Faith.
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Post by curmudgeon on Jul 27, 2017 23:14:46 GMT
It's his property. He can quite legally do what he wants with it. He can even throw it against the wall if hewats - his property.
Anyway, one day,in the future someone may discover a fine antique in the attic. Where d'you think all those 1940s D-28s and 1920s Gibson F-5 come from? Folks who didn't gig 'em every day!!
Ol' Andy (who has one or two items that he loves but doesn't play much).
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