SMASH THE SUCKER!!!!I am 100% behind Beau's original impulse -- my musical experience was hampered for years by bad guitars, first a bad cheap one, and then a bad expensive one. You cannot help thinking it is your fault, and it blocks you, CRIPPLES YOU. I think that smashing an instrument to free yourself -- if that is what it takes -- is terrific. It takes courage -- I salute the courage that took you to that bonfire!!!

Your freedom is more important than any instrument (sorry -- boy am I going to be in trouble for this one, Jesus)!

Wait!! If I could chop up that damned piano with my old piano teacher still in it, and I could get away with it, that would be a 2 for 1 bonus!!

But I think that Beau is actually drawn to guitars, in spite of it all. All this other stuff is just circling around to get back to the original guitar of his young dreams, and do it right finally.

yours, Peter T.