The Strangest Orchestra...

[waitingman]

A quiet day, mostly at home, except for a brief visit to my old schoolfriend & his son - who is my only guitar student... not so much of a student any more though... the kid's damned good!

I went mainly to collect 4 guitar stands they were getting rid of, as the prodigy now has a rack that can hold his growing collection. I used to have a similar rack until I changed the configuration of the Computer Room/Music Room/Spare Room/Man Cave & the rack didn't fit any more. So I'm happy to return to individual stands & certainly happy to get them for nothing...



So how many is too many? Here we have my '83 Telecaster, my '97 Maton acoustic, an Irish Bouzouki/Mandola, bass, Cigar-box guitar, a djembe & an African slit-drum, my small-but-LOUD Vox amplifier sitting on my big-&-LOUDER Roland amplifier, the digital piano & up the back is a classical guitar, with a mandolin & ukulele in a box. Not shown are the melodica, kalimba, electric kazoo, Indonesian gong & prayer cymbals

Who has time to go back to work when there's all this stuff to play!?!?

Comments

[paserbyp]

Wow! How about trade of this kind of staff?

[waitingman]

What do you have?!?

[paserbyp]

Nothing and I just have no clue about this staff, but with you expertise maybe good idea to start sell and buy? What do you thing?

[waitingman]

The days of being able to walk into a pawn shop & find a rare guitar at a bargain price are, unfortunately, long gone - pawn shop owners now know almost as much about guitars as the guys who sell or make new ones... sometimes more!!

That said, I'm sure it's still possible to buy an instrument relatively cheaply, clean it up a bit & put it up for sale online at a profit. Instead of looking for the well-known brands like Fender, Gibson, Martin, Rickenbacker etc... look for the lesser-known & sometimes quite unique, or unusual ones. There are some older Japanese guitars, with brand names you've never heard of, that were once considered cheap copies of American models, but are now doing good trade online, mainly because they're actually quite good guitars!

If you know a guitar player (of any standard - doesn't have to be Joe Satriani!), maybe take him/her on a tour of 2nd-hand stores & see what you can find. And don't forget to keep an eye out for the unusual instruments as well - cheap keyboards, drums... If it makes an interesting noise, someone will be interested in it!!

[paserbyp]

I see...