Re: "beater" mandos vs. case candy
Originally Posted by
!obey
... it's a generally pristine 40year-old instrument.
Right there you identified the REAL problem. To paraphrase an old bitter-love song: "The first scratch is the deepest!"
Trying not to sound superior but, if it were a pristine collector-grade instrument that you could readily swap out for a new car, well yeah, I'd be a bit paranoid too. But all of my better instruments (only talking a handful that are nicely into the 4-digit area) were bought used and somewhat pre-worn, so I enthusiastically USE them, sometimes to the extent of listening & grinning from across the room as someone ELSE gets to realize how good they are, while I play theirs.
That comment above about "life is short"? You bet! When I bought my first good acoustic, a well-worn Martin, it seemed old and was probably gonna be "temporary". At this point, I've owned it for 60% of its life and maybe 40% of mine, and it just gets more worn and better sounding every year. As will yours if you, as folks like to say around here, play the potatoes out of it.
FWIW, my only nylon-string guitar is also an Aria, lower-level but excellent-sounding, that seemed "old" when it was bought 40 years ago - a first-anniversary present from my wife!
- Ed
"Then one day we weren't as young as before
Our mistakes weren't quite so easy to undo
But by all those roads, my friend, we've travelled down
I'm a better man for just the knowin' of you."
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