Sneaking guitars into the house

Subject: Sneaking Guitars Into The House
From: Justa Picker
Date: 13 Jan 02 - 02:41 PM

Most of us into guitars and G.A.S. are fortunate to have understanding spouses (within limits of course) but here is an ingenious(?) method of integrating an ever increasing electric guitar collection. Could it be adapted for acoustic instruments? :-)

Subject: RE: Sneaking Guitars Into The House
From: Sorcha
Date: 13 Jan 02 - 02:48 PM

aaaahhhhaaaa!!!

Subject: RE: Sneaking Guitars Into The House
From: UB Ed
Date: 13 Jan 02 - 03:02 PM

That certainly sheds some light on the GAS issue...

Subject: RE: Sneaking Guitars Into The House
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 13 Jan 02 - 03:19 PM

Most amusing link today ;-)
Quack!
GtD
Now I wonder how to stop the Banjo's falling over like Kelly Dolls when the shade goes on!!!!!

Subject: RE: Sneaking Guitars Into The House
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 13 Jan 02 - 04:19 PM

OK, so you've got that D-45 into the house unnoticed, it's on the wall, and so far the spousal unit hasn't noticed that's it's replaced a fifty buck Aria. (showing that she never ACTUALLY paid attention to your nurd ramblings)

Now how the hell do you manage to explain why your VISA payments have jumped from 25 bucks a month to 250 bucks!

Rick

Subject: RE: Sneaking Guitars Into The House
From: Justa Picker
Date: 13 Jan 02 - 05:08 PM

Here's another option if you have enough lamps in your home.

Subject: RE: Sneaking Guitars Into The House
From: Deckman
Date: 13 Jan 02 - 05:33 PM

So far, these have been the BEST USE I've ever seen for an E L E C T R i C guitar (hee hee). CHEERS, Bob

Subject: RE: Sneaking Guitars Into The House
From: GUEST,misophist
Date: 13 Jan 02 - 06:09 PM

One other use; in the case of intruders, they make a dandy weapon.

Subject: RE: Sneaking Guitars Into The House
From: rangeroger
Date: 13 Jan 02 - 06:21 PM

If those were real Les Pauls disguised as lamps,I can only hope they are still easily converted back to playable instruments. Otherwise it's waste of a perfectly good guitar.

rr

Subject: RE: Sneaking Guitars Into The House
From: katlaughing
Date: 13 Jan 02 - 06:29 PM

So...ya don't get any sunshine up North and need extra lamps?**BG**

Subject: RE: Sneaking Guitars Into The House
From: Ebbie
Date: 13 Jan 02 - 06:34 PM

Talk about Trojan Guitars! After your spouse is used to the look of them in one area of the house, s/he won't be taken aback at seeing them in other rooms and configurations, like in your lap... lol

Subject: RE: Sneaking Guitars Into The House
From: 53
Date: 13 Jan 02 - 08:19 PM

yeh how do you explain the visa bill increase? BOB

Subject: RE: Sneaking Guitars Into The House
From: Ebbie
Date: 13 Jan 02 - 08:31 PM

A surcharge?

Subject: RE: Sneaking Guitars Into The House
From: Bobert
Date: 13 Jan 02 - 09:35 PM

My wife, P-Vine, doesn't have a clue how many guitars I own or even their makes but she does recognize charges on the credir cars so my advice is: money orders and SLUSH FUNDS...and have 'em shipped to your office. (Oh, Hi, Honey... Oh, nothing, just talking boring ol music and stuff.... Ya', love you, too. Sure, I'll be in in a while...) Danged, that was close. Whew!!!....

Subject: RE: Sneaking Guitars Into The House
From: Sorcha
Date: 13 Jan 02 - 09:38 PM

But what about FIDDLES????? I have a fiddle ashtray, a plaster fiddle for the wall (no, wait, I tossed that), a fiddle necklace charm, but what about REAL fiddles???? Help..............I only have 3 right now! 4 if the viola counts.

Subject: RE: Sneaking Guitars Into The House
From: 53
Date: 13 Jan 02 - 09:45 PM

sorcha, fiddles aren't as big as guitars, so you can find lots more hiding places for them. BOB

Subject: RE: Sneaking Guitars Into The House
From: Sorcha
Date: 13 Jan 02 - 09:52 PM

LOL! Too true, Bob, too true! But what do I say when I get it out to play and Himself says "Where did you get THAT???"

ummmm, "so and so gave it to me........" will only fly so often.

Subject: RE: Sneaking Guitars Into The House
From: JenEllen
Date: 13 Jan 02 - 10:41 PM

Wow. Well, I'll let you in on a little secret. Make guitars the better option!

All through school/work/etc, I was constantly bringing home animals. Not your normal cute and fuzzies, but amputees and burn victims and such. My SO had fits. When I started bringing instruments home, well, it wasn't nearly as bad as peg-legged pigeons and homeless hamsters.

Subject: RE: Sneaking Guitars Into The House
From: Sorcha
Date: 13 Jan 02 - 10:52 PM

We've done that, too, elle! When I was a kid, I used to collect all the stray cats in the neighborhood. I would keep them under one of those old fashioned, heavy mesh car top luggage carriers and my dad would "help me out" with them.

That stopped when I found out he was putting them in a paper sack with the top tied shut and using them for target practice..........one of the few things I have never forgiven him for. I still tend to do to many rescues, but I have learned to say NO! (well, sort of unless it's fiddles or dogs..........)

Subject: RE: Sneaking Guitars Into The House
From:
Date: 14 Jan 02 - 12:32 AM

Come home from Winnipeg Folk Fest a few years back, having just nicely broken in my handbuilt guitar, and informs herself that I bought a guitar @ Folk Fest. I let that sink in for a couple of milliseconds, then headed off the tirade by showing it ~ a little 3" lapel pin from Homemade Village, made by a luthier from actual tonewood offcuts and scraps. The look on herself's face for those milliseconds, though, was priceless. The bills are harder than ever to secrete, with online access to accounts. The instrument slush fund is my tactic, and that of most of my pickin' buddies. Anything we get from a gig ~ including gas money ~ goes into the instrument fund. JPicker: thx 4 the linx 2 the pix ~ lol

Subject: RE: Sneaking Guitars Into The House
From: Morticia
Date: 14 Jan 02 - 07:14 AM

You could always try telling the spousal unit ( love that phrase, Rick)that the extra's on your Visa are presents and dinners for your new mistress ( or male equivalent thereof)....that way, when they find it went on another guitar, they won't mind nearly so much.

Subject: RE: Sneaking Guitars Into The House
From: John Hardly
Date: 14 Jan 02 - 09:45 AM

Here you go Sorcha,

equal oportunity fiddle sneakage

Subject: RE: Sneaking Guitars Into The House
From: JenEllen
Date: 14 Jan 02 - 11:09 AM

LOL Mortee...have to remember that one....

Yeah, Sorch...Nothing like the look of sheer terror on spousal unit faces as you carry that box up the walk: "What do you have in there??" "Oh, nothing honey-pie, just an orphaned litter of tasmanian devils...It's only for a few weeks..." If you play your cards right, they'll give you money to go music shopping. *g*

Subject: RE: Sneaking Guitars Into The House
From: Melani
Date: 14 Jan 02 - 12:58 PM

I've only got three guitars--well, four, I forgot rescuing my mother's from her basement on Christmas day--but I only paid money for one of them; my dad made two. But I often sneak flutes and whistles into the house. I keep them in a jar in the kitchen, next to the wooden spoons, and he doesn't notice. Fortunately he never uses wooden spoons for cooking. Now I'm trying to figure out how to convince him that a dog is just a very large rat, to keep the two little rats company.

Subject: RE: Sneaking Guitars Into The House
From: Fortunato
Date: 14 Jan 02 - 02:08 PM

Wait a minute! Justa Picker where did you get those pictures. I actually like those tables. We even have a BC Rich Warlock to go in the damn thing. (Best use for it I can think of). Where can I get one? Really! We have a Fender Squier Strat just waiting! Thanks, Fortunato

Subject: RE: Sneaking Guitars Into The House
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 14 Jan 02 - 05:37 PM

Well, in the early days of a youthful marriage, I used guitar CASES (stacked) as furniture (coffee table). Oh, yeah, the guitars were IN them.

Linn

Subject: RE: Sneaking Guitars Into The House
From: rangeroger
Date: 15 Jan 02 - 01:13 AM

Can't you just say it followed you home and please can I keep it? Huh,pleeeease?

rr

Subject: RE: Sneaking Guitars Into The House
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 15 Jan 02 - 02:15 AM

Morty - if it means another bloody melodeon, then I think I'd rather swap the spousal unit! *BG* Melodeons don't make such good lamps, but as bookends they are pretty good. Even better for the rockery though.....

LTS

Subject: RE: Sneaking Guitars Into The House
From: 53
Date: 15 Jan 02 - 09:35 AM

when i hit number 7 glenda said that that was enough, but when i see one that i like, and that happens everytime that i walk into a music store, she says that we have enough, but if i find that treasure of a guitar that i just can't do without, we'll find a way to get it. BOB