The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #60077 Message #1799426
Posted By: Tattie Bogle
01-Aug-06 - 09:27 PM
Thread Name: Lending instruments especially in Pubs
Subject: RE: Lending instruments especially in Pubs
In one late night session in Girvan, I renamed my guitar the "communal instrument" as I think about 6 different people played it. If they can all play guitar, why don't they bring their own? As it happens, they all treated it with respect, and they all used different styles which made the one instrument sound like 6 different ones. It doesn't have a scratch plate and I use light strings so my main worry (apart from it getting dropped or bashed) is the "big strum" guys who thrash the casing in their "follow-through" and break the strings.
Oh........... and on another subject, am I the only person in the world who carries spare strings or am I just soft? I seem to be forever giving them away to people who have broken one, and I never get any back - even the cheaper ones are now over a £ a string!