Buy a Guitar It Extends Your Life

[Rich Cohen]

This just came over on my Instagram:

 

[HeyMikey]

See there, GAS is Good!

 

[silverfox103]

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but that is teenage boy humor. Someone has been had. What's the researchers name: Pat McGroin PHD? aka - Pat MeGroin. That guys been around since I've been a teenage boy, and that's a long time ago.

Tom

 

[Stuball48]

Rich:
I am a believer and have extended my life 18 times in the past five years.

 

[JohnW63]

Shhhh, Tom. Don't burst our bubble if we choose to believe the funny and not quite true clipping, put out by the independent luthiers guild.

 

[Bernie]

Does it really have to be a new and hand built guitar, what about selling or not selling an used one at the same time (or before/after) ? Could be too that buying a new guitar often means wealth, which is handy to last longer etc. ...
It's very good news yes, but I'd like to know a bit more about attached circumstances...
Guitar display next week-end in Toulouse (France), over 5O luthiers, and many hand made guitars under 4500 euros...Come along !

 

[RBSinTo]

A hockey bud's grandmother lived to 113, and didn't own a guitar.
A close friends mother is 103, and she hasn't got one either.
And my mother who died earlier this year was 100, and spent her entire life guitarless.
So using the same logic expressed in the original post, one could theorize that not buying a guitar will extend one's life.
RBSinTo

 

[Wilmywood]

A hockey bud's grandmother lived to 113, and didn't own a guitar.
A close friends mother is 103, and she hasn't got one either.
And my mother who died earlier this year was 100, and spent her entire life guitarless.
So using the same logic expressed in the original post, one could theorize that not buying a guitar will extend one's life.
RBSinTo

OR, imagine how much longer they could have all lived WITH a guitar

 

[GGJaguar]

For me it's a wash, the life extension brought to me by guitars is negated by life-shortening stress and ice cream (and yes, there is a correlation between increased ice cream consumption with a rise in stress levels).

 

[Uke]

using the same logic

When has buying a guitar EVER been about logic?

 

[Rich Cohen]

OR, imagine how much longer they could have all lived WITH a guitar

Thank you Will. I'm redeemed.

 

[Stagefright]

During times of high stress I will have either a guitar or chainsaw in my hand. Nothing calms the nerves like quiet time with an acoustic and a day in the woods with a chainsaw promises at least one night of great sleep. Waiting for a guitar purchased online probably negates at least one of those benefits.

 

[HeyMikey]

Ok, so we have yet another longevity controversy. I am going to err on the side of caution and continue to take vitamins and buy guitars.

teaser: NGD coming soon…

 

[Uke]

During times of high stress I will have either a guitar or chainsaw in my hand. Nothing calms the nerves like quiet time with an acoustic and a day in the woods with a chainsaw promises at least one night of great sleep. Waiting for a guitar purchased online probably negates at least one of those benefits.

Interesting. I never thought of a chain saw as a musical instrument, but I get how it could be music to some people's ears. However, here in Florida I associate the sound of a chainsaw with hurricanes that have just blown by.

 

[RBSinTo]

During times of high stress I will have either a guitar or chainsaw in my hand. Nothing calms the nerves like quiet time with an acoustic and a day in the woods with a chainsaw promises at least one night of great sleep. Waiting for a guitar purchased online probably negates at least one of those benefits.

Stagefright,
Hmmmm.
Interesting idea for a psychology experiment:
"Stress level changes induced during chainsaw use on guitars."
I suggest you begin working on a Grant Application.
RBSinTo

 

[GGJaguar]

teaser: NGD coming soon…

 

[HeyMikey]

It is a …

 

[Guildedagain]

If one guitar ads years to your life, some members here may be nearly immortal.

But what if you didn't want to live that long?

One day, you're happy, you want to go on, life seems too precious to give up. And who will get your guitars?

The next, life sucks, and you remember all the reasons why an exit will be a relief from worse things.

At any rate, there is no authority - yet - that will punish you for self destructive behavior, or simply neglect, to ward off old old age, the diaper stage.

I wish I could say I didn't have GAS, and that I wasn't always thinking about more guitars, but I tried it, and it was boring.

 

[Bernie]

As my post brought some interest it seems... www.les-ig.com/exposants
Many good luthiers, most acoustic guitars ranging from 3500 euros to 4000e among the advanced craftsmen last time I was there... Usually guitars are fully handmade...
Some are more expensive, others less... You could easily be condemned to 30 more years of good life according to starting post (if you are well-off enough) (Flamenco , Gipsy Jazz or Archtops - and more -)

 

[Stagefright]

Stagefright,
Hmmmm.
Interesting idea for a psychology experiment:
"Stress level changes induced during chainsaw use on guitars."
I suggest you begin working on a Grant Application.
RBSinTo

I could not bring myself to harm a guitar. I break out in a cold sweat thinking about the installation of a strap button.