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RE: how many guitars do you have? (in reply to Erik van Goch)
Well being a lady myself I have given my guitar a masculine name however the more I play the more I think my guitar is a girl and we are fast brcoming good friends??? Does that make my guitar transgender? Lol
RE: how many guitars do you have? (in reply to Erik van Goch)
A Freudian view point of a guitar would have wide hips, a sensual hole or two, and long neck it would be female. But then how many guitar swinging rock players (not all of course but you've seen them) can wear the guitar low and nasty and it becomes in effect a kind of penis extension device.
The guitar has both male and female attributes, yet in the languages like Spanish that express nouns with genders, the guitar is female in gender.
Then there is the old rhyme about Freudian relationships between an objects shapes and its inherent sexuality: Whether concave or convex, everything leads to sex.
I think of the guitar non anthropomorphic and non gendered. It is an inanimate instrument like a surgical tool is an object.
But my point of view on gender does not matter, guitar owners like boat owners will continue to give guitars cutie pie names. What I really think should be solved is what do you call a group of guitars?
A herd, a bevy, a unit, a pack, a gaggle, a brace, a pod, a flight, a school....
RE: how many guitars do you have? (in reply to Erik van Goch)
In England in the days of court musicians a group of viols could have been called a "chest of viols" because they were kept in things that would look like clothes chests.
RE: how many guitars do you have? (in reply to estebanana)
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ORIGINAL: estebanana
A Freudian view point of a guitar would have wide hips, a sensual hole or two, and long neck it would be female.....
What I really think should be solved is what do you call a group of guitars?
A herd, a bevy, a unit, a pack, a gaggle, a brace, a pod, a flight, a school....
What is group of guitars to be called?
Depending on how you store them one might consider a "bunch" or a "stack".....
but you can also grade them on function and value: two of diamonds (a set of useless guitars), * of a kind, a street, a full house (like blanca,negra,strat,12 string and classical), a royal flush (basically a full house but at fleta level), a quarter-pack (13 guitars) a half-pack (26 guitars) and a full-pack (52 excl. the jokers)....when the last 3 mega-groups represent some higher plan (rather than being a random group of 13, 26 or 52 guitars) one might call it a quarter-half-full/set.
From a Freudian point of view however one should probably just call them a "harem" :-)
RE: how many guitars do you have? (in reply to estebanana)
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ORIGINAL: estebanana
I kind of like the poker hand analogy. Aces wild could mean you have a hand with a cheapo Valencia and a Dammann in the same hand.
Or Five Condes' would be a hand of jokers. Are there that many in one deck?
In my original setup one could argue if it should be called 5 of a kind (which i.m.o. is allowed in a guitars group hug) or maybe should be divided in 2 groups like pair of blancas/3 negras..... the jokers i planned for the useless guitars and if you indeed consider those Condes to be a useless guitars by nature this group should be called 2 of diamonds :-)
RE: how many guitars do you have? (in reply to callistoluna)
I read Paco had around 30 guitars back in 1986. Conde, Ramirez and some Japanese guitar... Any information about what happened to Paco's guitars after his death?
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