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Guitars with temperaments of their own?

brianluxbrianlux Posts: 42,016
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Without getting too metaphysical about it, it sure seems to me that sometimes guitars have a mind or moods of their own. I'm sure most of the time it has more to do with my playing and/or temperature, humidity, spacial factors etc., but sometimes it just seems like (especially with two of my guitars) that they have their own mood swings. At their worst, they can be impossible to coax anything more than rudimentary sound out of and at best are completely forgiving of my limited talents and produce sounds way beyond what I can normally play on an average day.

Anybody else have experiences like that?
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  • 2-feign-reluctance2-feign-reluctance Posts: 23,301
    brianlux said:

    Without getting too metaphysical about it, it sure seems to me that sometimes guitars have a mind or moods of their own. I'm sure most of the time it has more to do with my playing and/or temperature, humidity, spacial factors etc., but sometimes it just seems like (especially with two of my guitars) that they have their own mood swings. At their worst, they can be impossible to coax anything more than rudimentary sound out of and at best are completely forgiving of my limited talents and produce sounds way beyond what I can normally play on an average day.

    Anybody else have experiences like that?

    My Les Paul has moods. Sometimes the stupid B string just doesn't stay in tune right. Sometimes she feels super heavy and lethargic. Other times she makes sounds that I've yet to duplicate....
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  • brianluxbrianlux Posts: 42,016
    2-feign-reluctance said:

    brianlux said:

    Without getting too metaphysical about it, it sure seems to me that sometimes guitars have a mind or moods of their own. I'm sure most of the time it has more to do with my playing and/or temperature, humidity, spacial factors etc., but sometimes it just seems like (especially with two of my guitars) that they have their own mood swings. At their worst, they can be impossible to coax anything more than rudimentary sound out of and at best are completely forgiving of my limited talents and produce sounds way beyond what I can normally play on an average day.

    Anybody else have experiences like that?

    My Les Paul has moods. Sometimes the stupid B string just doesn't stay in tune right. Sometimes she feels super heavy and lethargic. Other times she makes sounds that I've yet to duplicate....
    I have the same problem with the G string on my Martin DX1R. Sometimes it just won't quite tune right. I just let her rest for a while!
    “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
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  • ehbaconehbacon Posts: 1,971
    edited May 2016
    2-feign-reluctance said:

    brianlux said:

    Without getting too metaphysical about it, it sure seems to me that sometimes guitars have a mind or moods of their own. I'm sure most of the time it has more to do with my playing and/or temperature, humidity, spacial factors etc., but sometimes it just seems like (especially with two of my guitars) that they have their own mood swings. At their worst, they can be impossible to coax anything more than rudimentary sound out of and at best are completely forgiving of my limited talents and produce sounds way beyond what I can normally play on an average day.

    Anybody else have experiences like that?

    My Les Paul has moods. Sometimes the stupid B string just doesn't stay in tune right. Sometimes she feels super heavy and lethargic. Other times she makes sounds that I've yet to duplicate....
    same with mine and the G string, have to retune usually after 3 songs :pensive:
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  • SomethingCreativeSomethingCreative Posts: 3,374
    My tele plays fine but occasionally tells me to burn things
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  • mfc2006mfc2006 Posts: 37,438
    SomethingCreative said:

    My tele plays fine but occasionally tells me to burn things

    haha!!!

    My Strat is a bit tempermental at times....
    so I put it in time out.
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  • i_lov_iti_lov_it Posts: 4,007
    edited May 2016
    My Bass Guitar has a mind of it's own sometimes :tongue: lol
  • rollingsrollings Posts: 7,124
    brianlux said:

    Without getting too metaphysical about it, it sure seems to me that sometimes guitars have a mind or moods of their own. I'm sure most of the time it has more to do with my playing and/or temperature, humidity, spacial factors etc., but sometimes it just seems like (especially with two of my guitars) that they have their own mood swings. At their worst, they can be impossible to coax anything more than rudimentary sound out of and at best are completely forgiving of my limited talents and produce sounds way beyond what I can normally play on an average day.

    Anybody else have experiences like that?

    no
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