What guitar do you seem to be levitating to for most of your playing time?

Me I seem to go through phases but at this time it seems that I play the Telecaster's more and the American one the most.

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I had been playing my 08 Strat the majority of the time, but in the last few days, I picked up an 80's model Tele that has become my favorite "go to" guitar - especially after giving it a good set up - and im not even really a Tele guy at all - but I love this guitar!

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"Wait a minute, somethings wrong here!"

Usually it's my 98 MIA strat. Love that guitar more than anything.

Lately, I've been playing a lot of acoustic shows, so I'm playing my Taylor Blackwood L7. Amazing acoustic guitar, love that thing.

Hello Cvilleira,

Mosty I reach for my '62 hotrod Stratocaster.

Cheers.

I've been trying to spend time with the new baby, to get her used to the family - that's the LP Special.

Also, from playing Ball and Chain and then seeing Social Distortion live a few nights later, the LP+Bassman combination has been speaking to me...

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2002 LP Special Ebony Faded
2008 G-Dec
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DS 1
Gretsch 6120DS (on loan)

I get the feeling this post is for guitar players, But here goes mostly i play my AS P-Bass but one weekend a month I play my Gibson bass. Around the house I play my Epaphone Master Built Acoustic.

I've been playing my Strats so much that I've forgotten the meaning of "Les Paul".

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Well since I really cant play at all.What little time a week for the last 17 months has been totalyon my Beck strat due to the thickness of the neck I can get my thumb centered for about 20 minutes every few days without hitting the nerve.Well I have found the right doctor in N.Y who I hope will finally end the nightmare so I can play again.

Love, my Fender p-bass Squire model, Mexican made, red on red, maple maple rosewood, original pickups, wilkinson bridge, schaller tuning machines, string gauges: 130,100,85,65 eadg d'addario.

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you can save the world with your guitar one love song at a time it's just better, more fun, easier with a fender solid body electric guitar or electric bass guitar.

Well since i'm not much for electrics i play my Takamine Jasmine most of the time unless i want to plug in then it's my Takamine A/E EG334ce.

Hi cvilleira. I usually stand on my feet or sit on a stool when I play, having not yet mastered the art of levitation.

However, I do find myself gravitating toward my Jazzmaster more than my Strat these days. That's probably a function of the fact that I've been in a surfy mood lately. Or maybe I've been in a surfy mood because I've been playing my Jazzmaster. It's a chicken-and-egg thing.

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I really like all them "Aster" guitars. You know, like the Stratoc, Telec and Jazzm.

Hahaha! I just knew that if anyone was going to pick up on the levitation thing it would be russianracehorse...

Though given that we're talking about our guitar playing, I think it's an apt verb. Gravitate sounds so earthbound.

Hi CV: I play 'em all, but afterwards I pick up my Am Series Strat with it's modern neck and rolled fingerboard edges... And that's the one, I guess: that's my desert island guitar.

Cheers - C

I got to thinking about the masters I admired, and most of them were associatied with one guitar. While they did experiment with other guitars, Roy Buchanan and his Tele or Larry Carlton and his 335 are iconic pairings of player and instrument.

And I work with a lot of musician who don't play the guitar, all of whom find the idea of multiple insturments for different sounds somewhat risible. A sax player doesn't use one sax for "honk" and another for "smoov:" he learns to just play that way.

So over the past few years, I sold all my electric guitars save one. I find that it gets me out of the trap of simply cycling through guitars while playing the same stuff: when I get bored with the sounds I'm making, I can't just play the same licks through a set of P-90s and feel refreshed. I have to play some new stuff.

It's liberating, and a lot less work changing strings, too.

Can't argue with that logic. My one French horn handles everything within its realm of music. Good thing too, since it was $6000 retail. Paid $4500. If it took more than one I'd be in bad shape.

Hmm: I was following your point - till that bit. I've seen many sax players who come on stage with at least two instruments, if not three. Of all the examples you could pick, that was the one that didn't support your case!

There's been more than one concert pianist who travelled with two concert grands, as well. Horowitz was one such - in fact, I believe he sometimes dragged three grands around with him. On his famous return visit to Russia he took three pianos (and a row of staff including PAs, a tuner - and a chef).

Come to think of it, Yo-Yo Ma is well known for travelling with two cellos; James Gallway has a case full of flutes; and so on.

I do get what you're saying, of course. But...

Cheers - C