slimt Posted June 26, 2019 Share Posted June 26, 2019 Most in my collection 12 years ago was 1200 guitars, since that time up to now ,down to around 500 most are vintage and early 90s custom shop Gibson & Martin Acoustics 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLeadFlatpick Posted June 26, 2019 Author Share Posted June 26, 2019 16 minutes ago, slimt said: Most in my collection 12 years ago was 1200 guitars, since that time up to now ,down to around 500 most are vintage and early 90s custom shop Gibson & Martin Acoustics Mind. Blown.🤯 The most guitars contest I mentioned earlier, you’re the obvious winner so far🥇🏆 With that many guitars you might invest in a couple extra sets of arms to help you play them all, and mine are available😉😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bill Posted June 26, 2019 Share Posted June 26, 2019 (edited) On the world wide web you can own as many guitars as you say you have. 😉 I would have to guess I have owned around 35 in my life mostly Fenders. I currently have 12 guitars to include a mandolin, lap steel guitar, and a Persian sitar Edited June 26, 2019 by Big Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparquelito Posted June 26, 2019 Share Posted June 26, 2019 Over the years, I have owned just under 60 guitars in total (including bass guitars, electrics, lap steels, and acoustics). I currently own 19 guitars. This includes two bass guitars, two acoustics, a cigar box guitar, a hand-made banjo-shaped acoustic, and a ukulele. But the other 12 are full-on electric guitars. I'm an addict. Oh, and on my 60th birthday next month, I'll be up to 20. Yeah. I'm definitely an addict. 😞 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merciful-evans Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 9 hours ago, sparquelito said: Over the years, I have owned just under 60 guitars in total (including bass guitars, electrics, lap steels, and acoustics). I currently own 19 guitars. This includes two bass guitars, two acoustics, a cigar box guitar, a hand-made banjo-shaped acoustic, and a ukulele. But the other 12 are full-on electric guitars. I'm an addict. Oh, and on my 60th birthday next month, I'll be up to 20. Yeah. I'm definitely an addict. 😞 you'll be up to 19 because a ukulele aint a guitar! Yeah. I'm definitely a pedant. 😉 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparquelito Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 15 hours ago, merciful-evans said: you'll be up to 19 because a ukulele aint a guitar! Yeah. I'm definitely a pedant. 😉 😜 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave F Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 On 6/26/2019 at 1:39 PM, slimt said: Most in my collection 12 years ago was 1200 guitars, since that time up to now ,down to around 500 most are vintage and early 90s custom shop Gibson & Martin Acoustics That’s mind boggling. I’d love to see all those J200’s lined up. It would take me a couple weeks just to sample them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 (edited) 9 hours ago, sparquelito said: Interesting, Sparky... That seemed just plain wrong to me - they might be the same general shape but there the similarity ends - so I had a look to see how a ukulele was defined in my old copy of Chambers' dictionary and it used the phrase '..like a small guitar, usually featuring four strings..." and was further described as being "...of Portuguese origin, popularised in Hawaii in the late 19th century...." which, I guessed, was slightly more accurate than the definition you found on-line. BUT...then I had a bit of a think about what, exactly, is a guitar? Sounds a simple question but is it? What defines a guitar? The shape? The size / scale-length? The number of strings? The method of construction? Guitars come in all shapes. They come in a wide variety of sizes. They can have either 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12 strings that I know about and possibly other numbers as well. They can be hollow; semi-hollow; solid. They can be acoustic, acoustic-electric or electric. So I put Chambers away and dragged-down The Hutchinson Encyclopedia of Music and here's how that august tome defines a guitar; "A string instrument of great antiquity. It's back is flat, its belly has a waist as though to allow for the playing with a bow but the strings are plucked with the fingers or a plectrum....The finger-board is fretted. The modern classical guitar has six strings." For good measure here is their definition of a ukelele (and note the spelling! Not uku- but uke-); "A small Hawaiian guitar introduced to the Sandwich Islands by the Portuguese in 1877 and more recently into Europe as a popular instrument. It has four gut strings and can be played from a notation resembling lute tablature." So there we (sort-of) are; a ukelele - by both of these definitions - is classified as a guitar. Surprised me a bit! Anyhow; 19 or 20 still seems a fine number to have lying around the house! Pics of the new one when it arrives, of course! Pip. Edited June 28, 2019 by pippy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merciful-evans Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 9 hours ago, sparquelito said: 😜 Ok ya got me fair 'n square man. I accept the dictionary description. Its odd though that some of us are happy about owning a lot of guitars and want to include everything. Others (like myself,) are a bit embarrassed and even exclude basses from the count just to play it down. I just think I have too many guitars and see it as a 'problem.' Albeit a quite nice problem 🙂 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparquelito Posted June 30, 2019 Share Posted June 30, 2019 I just know that I am proud and happy to count Pippy and Merciful Evans among my guitar-owning, guitar-playing friends. 🙂 PS Oh, and I came home from a long weekend drive to and from a Wedding with another guitar, a copy of a Fender 12-string electric Strat-body. Photos tomorrow. 😞 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zigzag Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 (edited) Edited July 1, 2019 by zigzag Admit it. This is what you think of when you think of a ukule.le Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bill Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 (edited) 7 minutes ago, zigzag said: This is how I always seen them! Sorry. 🙂 Tim kind of looks like a young Jimmy Page. Edited July 1, 2019 by Big Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rct Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 Tim's wife Vicki used to dance right next to me, Club Mardi Gras, Westville NJ. Good times indeed. rct Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparquelito Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 I lived on the North Shore of Oahu for a few years. Surfed a lot. Chased some wanton wahines. We played the ukulele. It was a thing. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merciful-evans Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 uke: My 1st thought is not Tiny Tim, by George Formby. 😖 Its a hard image to overcome. Though I would quite like a uke to add a little contrast in some recordings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cougar Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 On 6/21/2019 at 4:57 PM, TheLeadFlatpick said: How many guitars have you owned? 27, not counting the odd guitar I had over 20 or 30 years ago. I now have 8. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelT Posted July 3, 2019 Share Posted July 3, 2019 I couldn't tell you how many guitars I've owned over the years. Maybe 30 or so. I have 12 right now. My Gibsons are 4 Les Pauls and 3 Flying V's. Others owned are a Dixon V, Ibanez Jiva, Fender American Pro Strat, Oscar Schmidt classical and Conrad parlor guitar. I rotate my electrics out for different gigs, usually taking at least two with me in case of a string break or other issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fidalgo Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 (edited) Including hollownecks and reso's, I have owned 46. I have three right now (Gibson J35 Fuller's, Collings D1T, Blueridge BR240A) and no plans to change that other than possibly getting a Lake Placid Blue Tele with a wide neck. Edited July 15, 2019 by Fidalgo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobouz Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 Seems like about five years ago when I tried to figure out how many guitars I'd owned up to that point, it was around 125. Some have come & gone since then, and currently it stands at 31 guitars & 2 mandolins. I feel fortunate to own the variety of acoustics & electrics that I have, and find it tonally inspiring to switch from one guitar to another. It's all good! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mutha Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 I have twelve, only eight I would regard as worth having, the others are my first purchases. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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