You gotta have faith! although singing George Michael songs ain't going to get your beer bought for you....

As well as the fairly silly number (27) of guitars and single banjo, I appear to have amassed a banjo/ ukulele, banjolin, two mandolins, various gob irons including a chromatic one I gave up on, three violins, a viola, various whistles, two bodhrans and a dancing doll on a plank. Oh, and a broken rhythm pole.

Yet I usually just take the one guitar (Rainsong OM10) and occasionally the banjo out with me. I was classically trained on violin but broke my wrist and frustrated enough to hardly take them out. The viola is a better option for comfort but when you stretch the strings up to GDAE, you risk a sliced face.....

Just three guitars and the banjo are out on stands in my study. The rest are packed away in a box room. (Except for seven guitars, last seen in student digs in Liverpool Grrrr)

Fast considering letting some go, but for that, I'll have to stop buying the bloody things....