While I have quite a few instruments, I plan to pass on four items to my grandson, Bear. Two of the items are swords; both my Marine Corps Officers sword and my Father's Naval Officer sword (which has been used to cut the wedding cakes of every member of our family since it was first used by my Father at his wedding in 1945). Both are intricately engraved and mounted.

But there are two other instruments that go with them. One is a Larrivee Presentation D-72 guitar, with abalone purfling and Vine and Vase inlay down the entire fingerboard; and the other is a Wildwood Heirloom Soloist open back banjo with an abalone Tree of Life down the finger board and engraved hoop, brackets and tailpiece. I play them every day.

I will leave it to him to decide when to use any of them... or mount them on a wall.