It’s About Time

Recently sold two of my Ovation guitars (Custom Legend 117 & Country Artist 1124-4) due to space constraints and to downsize my “maintenance cost” not necessarily in monetary terms.

I’ve also listed my Yamaha FG-512II for sale in ad but no response thus far. Most people I think doesn’t like 12 strings guitar. Besides many of the younger players prefer acoustic-electric so that they can plug into amp to play.

I’m not active shopper in the market but I do notice from chatting with store managers it appears that the contemporary Christian music scene (mega churches’ praise worship style) helped fuel the demand for electric as well as acoustic-electric guitars. Recent years saw the emergence of higher end guitar shops peddling Taylor, Goodall, etc. in the past, Gibson,, Fender and Martin are the exclusive brands locally. Yamaha was the mid-range priced guitars.

Anyway, now I’ve got two left: Concert Classic 1116 and the ’97 Collectors Edition Parlor. I will likely keep them for a long while. Should the 12 strings be sold then I might consider adding an intermed priced acoustic guitar (Yamaha?) for variety sake. Will see.