DSK wrote:

Accoustic? Do you get any problems with moisture?

Yes. The strings rust a lot faster than at home, but it's only a small
problem. I'm sure the salt & humidity don't help the guitar's
structure either. However I don't take expensive guitars cruising. My
"main" cruising guitar (an Alvarez copy of a Gibson J-200 arch-top
jumbo) lasted about 15 years, after which it still was imminently
playable and sounded great. ...

That sounds like a pretty good on-board working life.


... I gave it to a Russian mechanic. It was a
minor pain in the neck because it was so big. I now have a small
bodied Canadian folk guitar which stows much easier and has gone for
about 5 years.

I have a 3/4 size classical which is quite handy for messing about on. I
normally play electric or a dreadnought accoustic - the little classical has
a similar neck width, so it's easy to adapt to. It was also very cheap, so I
might end up taking it on the boat sometime.


The real problem with guitars & cruising is that I keep meeting much
better guitar players than myself, and cannot remember all the music
material I should be learning from them.

The trick is to 'remember' the good bits... ;-)


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