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No Medication Days
Observations
On The Move
Rants and Moans
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Techno Twaddle
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| When old and beat-up is good |
07/10/2009
Filed under: My Music, Observations |
A Rittenhouse Guitar (courtesy of the Rittenhouse Facebook photo page)
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I love guitars. To my eye, some are works of art as well as musical instruments. Guitars are probably one of the few design icons that defy the passage of time. What makes that an even more remarkable fact is that they are part of a culture which is always striving for new ideas and images. So you see the likes of the lass in the Ting Tings sporting a Fender Strat, a guitar designed and produced (like me) in the 1950's. There seems also to be a resurgence in popularity of the Fender Telecaster and the Gibson Les Paul Junior with new and up-and-coming bands. The lean, purposeful and mean look is back!
Another quite remarkable thing about guitars is that they are also coveted when they are well and truly worn out looking. I came across Rittenhouse Guitars on their Facebook page and discovered that they build custom reliced classic design guitars like the one shown above and are giving one away. While I drool at the sight of a shiny new guitar there is something about a reliced guitar that makes them even more desirable.
So when I look at myself in the mirror on a morning I just think about those beat-up old guitars - and hope that the world sees me in the same way! :-)
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