Guitarists- Parting With an Axe Stories

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Best bud sold me his acoustic for the price Gruhn Guitars was offering in trade for a D-28. Really nice 70's Yairi, one of those that people always remark about. Flash forward 20 years and he's bought a 40 foot Catalina and hesitant to bring along an even newer Gold Age Vintage something another; so on his birthday ... you got it returned it to him as gift... and his jaw dropped. And now it's got a new home that we both can enjoy.

What a good feeling.

There are about a half dozen guitars out there from my past that part of me would like to have back. But truth be told, I value more what they taught me about hanging on to the guitars that matter more than I miss said MIAs.

I teach the young players that come in my shop who ooh and ah at some of the jewels they encounter on the shop walls ... you are going to come across 6 to 12 guitars in your playing lifetime that are PERFECT for YOU in every aspect. And you know it the minute you pick them up in both your head and your heart.

The trick is to not only acquire those lifers but to hang on to them through thick and thin and GAS attacks ... so you DON'T have those regretful "one that got away" stories.

Got a really good deal on a Yamaha classical when I was younger. I started to get frustrated playing it so it went to a good home. That thing sounded absolutely amazing and I miss it, but the guy I sold it to got a lot more out of it than I ever could.