How many do you need?

[Bradock PI]

Just looking at all the folks with loads of guitars and I am wondering how many you need? How many do you actually have to have before you can cover all the tones and styles you want. Then if you have more is it

A) A disease I just cant help myself I have bad GAS

B) A collection I always wanted X,Y,Z and I am going to have them

C) An investment this is my pension pot and it beats bricks and morter hands down

D) What do you mean have more than I need I NEED every single one

E) I have to have a range of colours and styles to match my shoes and shirt I can't possibly be seen with a guitar that clashes

Please indicate current number of guitars along with number you need.

/nosey

[MDV]

I have 11 guitars

You can have as many as you want, for whatever reason you want. Case closed. NEXT!

[sgmypod]

A bit of A,B and D......10 guitars, 1 bass, 1 mandolin think I only had my SG, 12 string accoustic, classical and 6 string accoustic for years..then kinda went mad, then sold, traded etc until I got here.

You havn't mentioned amps..ahh A, B and D again

[WezV]

the number varies quite a lot, i have just sold off 3 from the collection to make way for at least 2 more - thats my version of streamlining

D is the only answer, even for people like me who dont play much anymore

[Jonny]

B or D, I think. (Just realised I put C, lol..)

I usually have guitars for different tunings but also for string through, Floyd, different bridges, number of strings, different pickup configs, woods.

But if I love a guitar, I'll pull a Twinfan.

[MDV]

A bit of A,B and D......10 guitars, 1 bass, 1 mandolin think I only had my SG, 12 string accoustic, classical and 6 string accoustic for years..then kinda went mad, then sold, traded etc until I got here.

You havn't mentioned amps..ahh A, B and D again

Are we not counting non-6 electrics as guitars?

Ok
7 x 6 string electric
1 x 7 string electric
1 x 6 (steel) string accoustic
2 x 4 string bass

Currently want
- my next custom to be finished (6 string electric)
- Nylon string accoustic
- Steel string accoustic with cutaway
- 5 string bass

Oh, and no one NEEDS to play guitar in the first place. Hate to get semi-philosophical on you but a 'need' is just something you want to facilitate something else you want. Need = 2nd order want.

For example, I need to eat = I want to not be hungry, therefore I need to eat.

I need a new guitar = I want a guitar that has/can do/comes with/doesnt has/etc so I can use other tuning/have trem/no trem/more frets/less frets/different pickup config/different tone/different shape/be smug/brag on internet/subjugate n00bs

[38thBeatle]

D for me. I have 3 acoustics-all tuned differently. 3 Electrics all used very often plus a bass that I use a lot when I get asked to record or play with a few mates.

[WezV]

be smug

i would just need to know how to spell acoustic for that :P ;)





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I really shouldnt mock peoples spelling, mine is very poor sometimes, but the misspelling of acoustic is a really common one and does bug me.  typing accoustic into ebay just got 80 results!! :)

[Philly Q]

A and B definitely. 

D.... hmmmm, not really, the number of guitars I need is precisely ZERO.  But I feel like I need them.

I currently have 25-ish, including several in-progess projects and a few which are past saving.

If I didn't have more than one of any particular type of guitar, I guess I could theoretically get it down to 7 or 8.  But it ain't gonna happen!  :?

[Bradock PI]

Was a time when some folks that didn't want acoustic did want a koo stark(sp)

Oh, and no one NEEDS to play guitar in the first place. Hate to get semi-philosophical on you but a 'need' is just something you want to facilitate something else you want. Need = 2nd order want.

For example, I need to eat = I want to not be hungry, therefore I need to eat.

I need a new guitar = I want a guitar that has/can do/comes with/doesnt has/etc so I can use other tuning/have trem/no trem/more frets/less frets/different pickup config/different tone/different shape/be smug/brag on internet/subjugate n00bs

The term need was qualified with the requirement of tones and styles wanted therefore was a subset need generated by a want and identified implicitly in the statement, having already stipulated the process of choice the term need is entirely applicable.

[MDV]

be smug

i would just need to know how to spell acoustic for that :P ;)





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I really shouldnt mock peoples spelling, mine is very poor sometimes, but the misspelling of acoustic is a really common one and does bug me.  typing accoustic into ebay just got 80 results!! :)

Meh. My spellings terrible, and I know it. Ergo, I am immune to any derogatory comments about it!

[Denim n Leather]

EVERYONE knows you need at least one more than you currently have. PDT_008

[MDV]

Was a time when some folks that didn't want acoustic did want a koo stark(sp)

Oh, and no one NEEDS to play guitar in the first place. Hate to get semi-philosophical on you but a 'need' is just something you want to facilitate something else you want. Need = 2nd order want.

For example, I need to eat = I want to not be hungry, therefore I need to eat.

I need a new guitar = I want a guitar that has/can do/comes with/doesnt has/etc so I can use other tuning/have trem/no trem/more frets/less frets/different pickup config/different tone/different shape/be smug/brag on internet/subjugate n00bs

The term need was qualified with the requirement of tones and styles wanted therefore was a subset need generated by a want and identified implicitly in the statement, having already stipulated the process of choice the term need is entirely applicable.

The original enquiry proposed 'need' as being the selection of a guitar by an apriori or conditional justification leading to the aquisition of a guitar. I put it to you that in place of this requirement for rational underpinning of accumulation of guitars, a need in general is an abstract and misleading concept whereby one fails to consider the underlying desires that drive all needs. Need is therefore means to fulfilment of desire or aversion of undesired consequence. In light of this modification to the original stipulation of a (limited) selection process all guitar purchase decisions (as, ultimately, with everything else) may be reduced to

"I have it because I wanted it, so I got it".  

[Afghan Dave]

Was a time when some folks that didn't want acoustic did want a koo stark(sp)

Oh, and no one NEEDS to play guitar in the first place. Hate to get semi-philosophical on you but a 'need' is just something you want to facilitate something else you want. Need = 2nd order want.

For example, I need to eat = I want to not be hungry, therefore I need to eat.

I need a new guitar = I want a guitar that has/can do/comes with/doesnt has/etc so I can use other tuning/have trem/no trem/more frets/less frets/different pickup config/different tone/different shape/be smug/brag on internet/subjugate n00bs

The term need was qualified with the requirement of tones and styles wanted therefore was a subset need generated by a want and identified implicitly in the statement, having already stipulated the process of choice the term need is entirely applicable.

The original enquiry proposed 'need' as being the selection of a guitar by an apriori or conditional justification leading to the aquisition of a guitar. I put it to you that in place of this requirement for rational underpinning of accumulation of guitars, a need in general is an abstract and misleading concept whereby one fails to consider the underlying desires that drive all needs. Need is therefore means to fulfilment of desire or aversion of undesired consequence. In light of this modification to the original stipulation of a (limited) selection process all guitar purchase decisions (as, ultimately, with everything else) may be reduced to

"I have it because I wanted it, so I got it".  

Pure sophistry.

Sorry MDV... But it is and you know it..

Let's not get into a philosophy debate over GAS.  PDT_038  PDT_019

[Bradock PI]

The original enquiry proposed 'need' as being the selection of a guitar by an apriori or conditional justification leading to the aquisition of a guitar. I put it to you that in place of this requirement for rational underpinning of accumulation of guitars, a need in general is an abstract and misleading concept whereby one fails to consider the underlying desires that drive all needs. Need is therefore means to fulfilment of desire or aversion of undesired consequence. In light of this modification to the original stipulation of a (limited) selection process all guitar purchase decisions (as, ultimately, with everything else) may be reduced to

"I have it because I wanted it, so I got it".  

The qualification was based on the designation of the primary function of a guitar, its purpose for existance namely the production of musical sounds. The identification of need was qualified with the "want" to produce a particulary range of musical styles or tones having made the decision to produce those sounds then there is now the need to have the capable instrument. Instruments procured outside of this scope would not be fulfilling the need with respect to the primary function.

It is need in the same way that a cyclist in order to cycle needs a bike, The cyclist that wants to race on a track needs a track bike and a cyclist that wants to compete in down hill  needs a mountain bike. The need in this case is produced by the specific subset requirements of the particular activity.