Tuesday Tidbits: What Day is it?
I would be amiss if I neglected to mention it is National Guitar Day today.
I still have and play (not as often as I should) my Matsuoka classical guitar that I bought in 1986 which looks like this one:
Nothing fancy, but it still sounds good.
My first electric was a Hondo, and if that doesn’t sound familiar, I’m not surprised. I ordered it in 1982 from the Radio Shack dealer in town who also sold records and chocolate bars. I was well on my way to be a rock star.
I sold it a few years later, and in a patriotic episode, spurned on by the far future threats of US tariffs, I purchased a Canadian made Lado electric guitar that over the years became a Franken-guitar as I replaced parts in an attempt to do I don’t know what. Eventually, there was more solder in the wiring than actual wire, an annoying buzz in the Seymore-Duncan humbucker double-rail pickup, and the Floyd Rose whammy bar was losing it’s whammy. So it wound up in the curb for free give-away weekend.
I still have my 2001 Takamine acoustic guitar similar to this one, which like the classical guitar, needs to be played more often:
My dream guitar that I never got?
That would be a Paul Reed Smith guitar. I played one once and it was the most beautiful instrument to play, but it was cost prohibitive for me to buy.
What’s the most expensive guitar? Kurt Cobain’s Martin acoustic sold for 6 million. (Side note: My dream acoustic would be a Martin…but not that one.)
-Leon
Leon Stevens is a multi-genre author, composer, guitarist, songwriter, and an artist, with a Bachelor of Music and Education. He published his first book of poetry, Lines by Leon: Poems, Prose, and Pictures in January 2020, followed by a book of original classical guitar compositions, Journeys, and a short story collection of science fiction/post-apocalyptic tales called The Knot at the End of the Rope and Other Short Stories. His newest publications are the novella trilogy, The View from Here, which is a continuation of one of his short stories, a new collection of poetry titled, A Wonder of Words, and his latest sci-fi mystery, Euphrates Vanished.
My new book page: http://books.linesbyleon.com/
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