Fuck me I bet that Gibson was expensive
tennis boy collects guitars and he's had his beady eye on one of those for a long long time.
(berk, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:03, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

It should have been...
But I only paid about £1100 for it (about 11 years ago).
It is worth a lot more than that now though, I could probably sell the pick-ups for that amount today.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:05, Reply)

Bargain! Relatively speaking, anyway...
How many guitars do you own?
(berk, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:06, Reply)

Only four :(

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:09, Reply)

Two of which are very very nice though
I only have one, which I can barely play in any case, but the boy has 18 I believe. Crazy foo'.
(berk, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:12, Reply)

18? *drools*
I came close to buying more when I had a more disposable income, but (somewhat uncharacteristically) decided that the sensible thing would be to get full use out of my existing guitars in order to justify further purchases.
On the positive side it meant I started playing them all more instead of using just one main one. On the down side it meant that I never did end up buying more guitars.
I've started collecting other instruments now.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:21, Reply)

He has too much disposable income
and a generous mother. He only really plays 5 or 6 of them, some acoustic and some electric. Having just bought a flat he's unlikely to be able to afford any more for the time being though.
What other instruments do you collect then?
(berk, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:23, Reply)

Nothing as lovely as the guitars, but so far:
A piano, a banjo, a violin (a family heirloom stolen from my sister), recorders, a fife, a ukulele, a couple of harmonicas, a pungi (a snake charmers reed instrument - sounds terrible) and a melodica.
My next purchase is likely to be a harmonium.
Or a bouzouki.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:31, Reply)

Haha, and can you actually play any of them?
Apart from the recorders, anyway.
(berk, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:36, Reply)

Actually the recorders and fife are the ones I am worst at
All the stringed instruments are fairly easy for me, apart from the violin which I just haven't had enough time to learn (for my current purposes I use it as a drone instrument, which only requires me to play one note).
Instruments which require blowing are a different discipline, which I am still trying to develop.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:42, Reply)

I feel your pain
I have a saxophone which I rarely play because it depresses me how bad I am (so I never play it, so I never get better, of course)
(berk, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:47, Reply)