Guitars per capita

[cjsmith]

"The goal of higher income is not just bigger piles of money. The goal of longer lives is not just extra time. [...] Culture and freedom, the goals of development, can be hard to measure, but guitars per capita is a good proxy."

--Hans Rosling, in Factfulness

Comments

[wcg]

Three guitars per this capita.

[cjsmith]

Nice! Why three? Different needs, electric / acoustic / other?

I had one for a long time, sold it as part of downsizing for one of the moves for vettie stuff, and have been toying with the idea of getting another. I do not play well at all. I sort of pick some semi musical noises out, reminiscent of a child walking along the length of a piano keyboard. Had once had dreams of learning.

[wcg]

All three of mine are acoustic. Two are six strings, and one's a twelve string. I got the 12-string when I was stationed on Okinawa in early 1979. It's a Yamaha FG-630, which is modeled on the 1936 Martin 12-string. Both six strings were gifts. One is a Hondo H-18, which was the first mass marketed guitar sold in the US. It's an awfully good guitar considering its origins. The other is a B. C. Rico jazz guitar made around 1958. When I got it the poor thing was in awful shape, but a local luthier restored it for me (and would have been happy to keep it if I didn't want it).

I play mostly folk music at local coffee houses and song swaps. Though these days I'm much more likely to be dancing than playing.

[cjsmith]

Wow, that is really nifty! I didn't even know there were such things as twelve string guitars...

I think it's cool that you play, and play well enough to play for local coffee houses and suchlike. :)