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Tony - that is surely one of the funniest posts I have ever seen. Thanks brother - I needed a good laugh!

I hear your pain. There are times when I can only squeeze in 10 minutes of playing each day. I do that. It works well enough for me, I enjoy playing for myself and find it "good enough" to feel the guitar, strum a few chords, maybe sing. The important thing to me is to do it each day, even if its only for 5 or 10 minutes. Keeps me connected. Clark

I've gotten better. When I try out guitars at the shops nowadays, it's only the impolite salespeople who ask me to put down the instrument and leave immediately.

Well, not really, but, guitars are kind of like Jell-o. There's always room for more! When I was 15 I promised my folks that "this guitar" was definitely going to be the last one I'd ever need - it was a Japanese copy of an ES335... By rough estimation, in the 35 years since, I've probably owned an average of 6-8 guitars at any given time. Countless dozens of guitars have come and gone since then, yet no...

Right now I have two - a Greven and A New Era. I am fascinated by many more that I don 't have, including many Martins, that I'd love to get my hands on for at least a little while...'too many' is a totally subjective term that of course no-one but you could ever hope to answer for yourself. The question that I ask myself instead of 'how much is too many?' is 'isn't it time to play some more?'

Ky-san has an unfair advantage -- he's from Kentucky and every Kentucky boy gets an acoustic guitar/singin' combo chip installed at birth... :- ) So the guy that started this mess... how about posting some of your stuff? Can't wait to hear it!

"Down by the Bay"...easy to sing...just 'echo' the lead singer. Plus, the kids can add their own rhyming lines. Great fun every time! --Dee

Instrumental...gotta be Little Martha by Duane Allmann W/Vocal...Have to say "Heart of Gold" by Neil Young