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How many basses & guitars to do you have?

How many stringed instruments to you have?

  • <4

    Votes: 153 29.1%
  • 5-10

    Votes: 237 45.1%
  • 11-15

    Votes: 73 13.9%
  • 16-20

    Votes: 25 4.8%
  • 21-25

    Votes: 13 2.5%
  • >25

    Votes: 24 4.6%

  • Total voters
    525
5 basses (and growing):
-2002 (?) Rob Allen MB-2 5-string
-1980 Music Man Cutlass string-thru natural finish
-1986 Ibanez Musician fretless neck-thru natural body/ebony board (MC2924?)
-1970 Frankenjazz (1983 Phil Kubicki P-bass neck, EMGs, Shaller bridge); was a college project; never had the original neck
-Ibanez SR505

3 electric guitars
-1978 Ibanez 2630 Artist (like ES-335, pretty desirable)
-2005 Strat Amer. Dlx maple board, tobacco burst
-PRS Custom 22 20th Anniv. w/trem.
(just sold my 1960 slab-board Strat and my 1991 Valley Arts Telecaster Custom Pro)

3 acoustic guitars
-Taylor 514C no pickup
-Lowden nylon-string with cutaway (forget the model, but gorgeous sound)
-Gianinni classical (my first guitar that Dad bought me at age 7 or 8 over 30 years ago; not a student-size)
 
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BASSES
-Fender Standard Jazz Bass w/ BAII bridge
-Squier P-Bass (now with black PG)

GUITARS
-Parts Strat
-Squier Mini Acoustic (for free)

OTHER (not pictured)
-Vintage Harmony Mandolin
-Vintage Violin
-Piano (it has strings, lol)
 
7 basses, 2 guitars, 1 cello, 1 mandolin, 1 banjo

Basically, too much stuff. I only use 3 of the basses with any consistency, the guitars are rarely touched, the cello gets used about once a month and the mando & banjo just collect dust .... :hmm:

I definitely need to get rid of some stuff ......
 
Six basses, and three guitars.

BASSES:
Fender Am. Ser. Jazz
Fender Am. Ser. Precision
Fender MIM/A project fretless Precision
G&L L-1500
G&L SB-2
DiPinto Belvedere Standard

GUITARS:
Fender Am. Ser. Stratocaster (SSS with Lace Sensor Hot Gold pickups)
Fender Am. Ser. Stratocaster (HH, with stock Seymour Duncan humbuckers)
Washburn acoustic
 
  • 4 banjos: 1 bluegrass (Deering), 2 openback (Deering, Gold Tone), 1 old one (selling to a friend for 3 bottles of corn whiskey)
  • 3 basses: 1 Shen SB-100; 1 Barker upright electric (don't play it much these days, but a very high quality instrument); 1 Morgan Monroe acoustic electric (excellent for practicing unplugged & sitting down)
  • 2 guitars: 1 Taylor big baby; 1 Martin backpacker (don't play much guitar these days).
  • 1 Celtic harp (4 octaves...don't play it at all, but looks decorative in my living room)
 
Great thread - some of y'all have a bunch of really cool toys.

Here's my list:
1 upright bass - an Englehart
1 5-string bass - L-2500 Tribby
1 4-string bass - Fender jazz
1 5-string open-back banjo (no-name)
1 tenor banjo
5 acoustic six-stringers (a Larrivee, a Seagull and a few others)
1 acoustic six-string, a Recording King - a two-point, mando body style, probably made by Kay in the 1940's.
1 Fender Strat
1 cool National archtop (1954 and barely a scratch)
1 DeArmond T-400 (poor-man's Gretch)
1 mando


Rob K.