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High-end guitars
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as for classical musicians.....
how many own more than one instrument? or their main instrument and a backup?
many play instruments loaded to them by benefactors.
guitarists are unique in that nature that many need to have as many as we can store and afford. and collect.
My nephew plays and studies tuba at a local university. He has 4 of them (cause I bought them for him) but the average student rents one or owns one. the crap tubas made in china start at 3K.
Now if you have 10 guitars imagine they are 10 tubas. where do you put the cases? where do you display them? they are HUGE. I have to find the link but there is a guy with a webpage on the net who collects tubas and has a whole wing on this house to store and display something like 50-100 of them.
think about it LOL
how many own more than one instrument? or their main instrument and a backup?
many play instruments loaded to them by benefactors.
guitarists are unique in that nature that many need to have as many as we can store and afford. and collect.
My nephew plays and studies tuba at a local university. He has 4 of them (cause I bought them for him) but the average student rents one or owns one. the crap tubas made in china start at 3K.
Now if you have 10 guitars imagine they are 10 tubas. where do you put the cases? where do you display them? they are HUGE. I have to find the link but there is a guy with a webpage on the net who collects tubas and has a whole wing on this house to store and display something like 50-100 of them.
think about it LOL
adorshki
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Something like this guy?alpep said:
viewtopic.php?f=17&t=16495
Y'aint just dealin with a buncha amateurs here sonny! :lol:
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I won't try and generalize from my experience to say yours is wrong :wink:, but most of the classical instrumentalists I have known have a very limited number of instruments. They are lovingly cared for and almost no one I know brings a "backup" to a gig the way guitarists often do.alpep said:
The professionals I know who have multiple instruments have them for multiple purposes. Four tubas seems excessive but a BB flat for concert band and a CC for orchestral work seems reasonable. Trumpet, cornet and fluglehorn? Sure. Three different sounds. But not three similar trumpets. Without exception the "classical" professionals I know who have multiple instruments are first and foremost collectors. They may play all the instruments but they clearly understand that they don't need them all for gigging.
I think a gigging guitarist can rationally justify several instruments but I also feel that at some point that justification just covers up the fact that they are, at heart, a collector
NEONMOONY
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Just a couple thoughts I find interesting about this thread.
On the idea that the guitar is better but not THAT much better, I have heard the same kind of comments about $1000 guitars versus $300 guitars. Whether or not a product is worth the price really is up to the customer. In addition, as your ability to acquire goods increases and your professional need for quality increases, differences that may seem smaller to others may seem significant. I have a few, what I consider, fairly nice instruments that I think sound great. Yet, occasionally, I hear a cd or what ever, and I am impressed by a the sound of a particular guitar. I sometimes think to myself, that particular tone out of my instruments. Especially, with acoustic guitar tones. To a full time touring musician, there may be plenty of good reasons for a high end instrument.
On the idea that the guitar is better but not THAT much better, I have heard the same kind of comments about $1000 guitars versus $300 guitars. Whether or not a product is worth the price really is up to the customer. In addition, as your ability to acquire goods increases and your professional need for quality increases, differences that may seem smaller to others may seem significant. I have a few, what I consider, fairly nice instruments that I think sound great. Yet, occasionally, I hear a cd or what ever, and I am impressed by a the sound of a particular guitar. I sometimes think to myself, that particular tone out of my instruments. Especially, with acoustic guitar tones. To a full time touring musician, there may be plenty of good reasons for a high end instrument.