I am not surprised to hear this. But I am saddened. Guitar Center is filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy. This has many implications and ramifications.

Guitar Center Chapter 11

Many of us who appreciate actual non-digital musical instruments and can afford to buy them are aging. (I'm mostly thinking acoustic guitars, here. But other instruments, too.) Many of us have enough of whatever instruments we want. Fewer younger folks are as interested or can afford them.

So it seems to me (he said without Internet verification) that the guitar market has been or will be softening in the next several years. Add to that the pandemic which has curtailed much walk-in-possible-purchase traffic.

So I'm not surprised. And extrapolating, I can see a time when the younger folks, who are not that interested in out instruments as well as a lot of other of our "stuff" end up giving away or even outright trashing (as in: throwing them on the trash heap) many of these instruments.


Saul