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Gypsy-style instruments, Dupont and Dell Arte.... I'm an incompetent Django Reinhardt / Bireli Lagrene wannabe.

Sometimes I plug an Ibanez George Benson with bebop strings into a nostalgic tweedy tube amp and drive my girlfriend from the room...miserable jazz/blues.

I think there's some kind of relationship between guitars and rangefinders.

Do you?
 
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washburn acoustic, cheap Les Paul (my sons), and a fiddle my great, great grandfather used to play. I never finish learning a song and always choose music that is imposible to learn with my feeble fingers (mostly thumbs). I would love to learn some bluegrass someday.


Todd
 
A natural-finish Telecaster (Mex. Standard, I assume, but they don't seem to come in natural?) through a Vox modelling amp. Not that what I do really qualifies as playing.
 
Epiphone PR5 electroacoustic, and incresingly a friends fender mexican strat 🙂
 
I had an Alvarez acoustic at my community college, and I played a squire P-bass, too...cameras take up too much of my money these days🙂. I'd kinda like to get back into playing bass though🙁...
 
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A connection? Maybe. I suck at guitar playing. And I want to improve my photography too. 🙂
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I do play guitar, but I don't currently have one. I think of getting back into it all the time, but I would have to cut my nails much shorter and build up the calluses. I guess it's a choice between vanity and music? 🙂

I do play piano and organ (including the pedals) but the only keyboard I have now is a several year old Yamaha portable keyboard, which actually sounds decent when it's played thru the stereo system. I'm still not that great at it.

Now as to vocal music I do stink! I learned the hard way not to try karaoke a while back. 🙂 🙁
 
fender 73 p bass
fender 75 jazz bass ri
fender mike dirnt p bass/ added j pup.
fender cs strat 62
martin dm acoustic.

many other instruments but you only asked for guitars. 🙂

always jamming. with a band or in the bedroom, doesn't matter.

billy.
 
I just took the old trombone out of the attic. I won a method book and instructional DVD on ebay. Time to learn again.

Can I mention the Trombone here?
 
I play on an Almansa 435 classical guitar, got a good copy, too, very warm, deep, rich, and surprisingly loud. Saving up for a custom, not sure who I'll have make it. Not into electric yet, hope to someday.. also would like to try a banjo, such a fun sound 🙂 short example 😛 Does anyone have samples of their music? 😀
 
I used to have a blonde Telecaster about 15 years ago, and a really cool Alvarez acoustic. It was the "Festival" model, had a rough natural finish and brass nut and bridge. I occasionaly search the internet for one but nobody's selling.
Right now all I have is a cheap acoustic. I also play tin whistle, but most people run away when I do that.
 
I play guitar, but i'm not that good, my fingers work very well, my teacher said iw as skilled, but i don't have enough patience...
But i enjoy playin it every ocne in a while 😀
 
Ooh, this is fun, but so wildly OT 😉

Acoustic: '99 Gibson J45 or a Larivee Cherub (pictured left) which gets used for travel, pub sessions and as an acoustic lap steel.

Electric: Fender Japen '52 Tele (possibly the nicest electric guitar I've ever owned), Fender Mexico '50's Classic Tele, Fender 94SE Stratocaster. Oh, and a no-brand lap steel that looks like junk but sounds fantastic that I have on permanent loan from the man whose headstock can just be seen in my avatar (that's a beautiful Martin 000-28H BTW).

Amps: '68 Fender Vibrolux Reverb, Fender Blues Junior (or Pocket Bassman as I like to think of it) and a Tech 21 Trademark 60 for when I need to keep the volume down.

Sorry, but I had to list the amps as I'm one of them weirdo amphead type guitarists.

I mainly play folk music (UK and US) with a little country and roots rock.

Mark
 
in descending order of competency

K Yairi steel string
Home made ( "ben-o-phonic" perhaps ? ) square neck dobro
'38 wood body National round neck
'70s Japanese mando
and way down the list... cheap and nasty student grade fiddle.

My SO suggests I get a banjo, so that's next. Although I fear she doesn't quite realise what someone learning to play the banjo sounds like.

Sold my bass rig recently to fund an M6 ( toys for toys as it were )
Ben
 
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