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Pollik

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How do you carry your guitar safely and still keep it where you will play it? (If I keep it in its case in the garage, I know I will play it less.)





Polly
 
I don't play guitar, sadly. I'm trying to find a way of taking the piano with me, though... :dance:
 
Pollik said:
How do you carry your guitar safely and still keep it where you will play it? (If I keep it in its case in the garage, I know I will play it less.)





Polly
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Not a good idea to leave your guitar, even if it is in a case in the garage, unless, it is at room temperature or there abouts. Possibility of the guitar casing warping due to fluctuations in the atmosphere. A cool dry place is best in the house.
 
guitar/piano

Hi
Its best to keep it inside where you live. As other people have said it will warp the neck if it gets too cold then damp. I wouldnt leave it in the camper unless well out of sight, and not for long periods of time. As far as pianos go there is a new portable yamaha grand out at the mo that runs off 240 or 12v NP 30 compact grand only weighs 5 kilo mesures 4 inch x 10 inch x 52. I just got bought one for £90 from cash convertors. A fantastic bit of kit all sampled from a real yamaha grand piano, my best buy for years.Ideal for taking away with me in the camper.It has a headphone socket so i dont annoy people with my les dawson style of playing.
regards terry
 
Jenny has carried a guitar around with us ever since we started this nomadic life about 10 years ago. During the day it lives on the bed; during the night it moves to the dining table. In the morning it moves back to the bed - and so on. It is the only exercise it gets. She hasn't actually played the bloody thing for years! :fun:
 
John H said:
Jenny has carried a guitar around with us ever since we started this nomadic life about 10 years ago. During the day it lives on the bed; during the night it moves to the dining table. In the morning it moves back to the bed - and so on. It is the only exercise it gets. She hasn't actually played the bloody thing for years! :fun:
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Never know when it might come in handy, though! :)
 
I never really saw the garage as an option, but I was hoping someone might have a good solution for hanging it somewhere but safely.

So...the bed it will have to be.

Just a bit worried about it falling off (as things are prone to do in the Bessecarr...I find it hard to leave my Formula 1 days behind)


Thanks for the tips.


Polly
 
My Tenor Banjo stands in a gig bag in the shower when we're on weekends away or short trips.

I tend not to take it on longer trips but somehow the shower still gets filled with other stuff.
 
Pollik said:
I never really saw the garage as an option, but I was hoping someone might have a good solution for hanging it somewhere but safely.

So...the bed it will have to be.

Just a bit worried about it falling off (as things are prone to do in the Bessecarr...I find it hard to leave my Formula 1 days behind)


Thanks for the tips.


Polly
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Can't you just tie it to something up there? A window handle or something? The chap who had my bus before I did made a full-length hardboard 'fence' to put across the bed opening to prevent him from falling out! I don't use it, but it's handy if I'm storing stuff up there.
 
As others have said the guitar lays on the overhead bed during the day, usually wedged with bed guard and some pillows to stop it moving about and at night sits on the drivers seat. The mandolin stays on top of the overhead cupboards day and night gawd only knows where the bass is going to go :rolleyes2:
 
If your hubby bothers you, forget the frying pan, one way of playing it, coming off his noggin.☺☺☺ PS. I have learnt a lot off British slang in the 7 years I have been in England) not bad, eh !!!! ☺☺☺
 
I can't really justify storing my guitar in my van. So I take a tin whistle to play instead...it's one of the more portable of instruments!
 
If you are uncomfortable your guitar is uncomfortable right ?


The acoustic I acquired on my travels seems a hardy soul ...Yamaha ...bloody clever the Japs...

Mine goes from bed to the dinette in an evening other than breaking strings no prob .....Just wish I could play the bloody thing better than I do.

I did refrain from brining my Charvel 475 dlx along complete with line 6 amp And Gibson wannabe , However I could have made a few quid in the summer......sending kids to sleep that sort of thing :mad1:
Channa
 
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My guitar nearly gets lashed our of the window many a time ...when things arn't going great :mad2:!!!!!!!.........Some days it's kind to me and sounds fabulous and other days it lets me down.
 
I have travelled thousands of miles with my guitar carefully placed under a quilt on the bed to stop slipping. I also have a small stand, so during the day it tends to be placed on that so I can play when I wish to, then back into the case at night and usually put under the slide out bed.

The stand cost me £3.00 from a car boot sale!
 
Firefox said:
I can't really justify storing my guitar in my van. So I take a tin whistle to play instead...it's one of the more portable of instruments!
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Another vote for tin whistle. I carry 2 in my MH so I have a choice of brass or plastic, I could take about 30 or 40 with me before they took up the space of a single guitar.
Air guitar is another great space saver and as it operates on imagination the sound is pretty good too. I don't know if Yamaha do one.
 
Duckrow said:
it operates on imagination the sound is pretty good too. I don't know if Yamaha do one.
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Naggh Gibson do Slash sweet child of mine , Fender have an imaginatary guitar too ...close your eyes count to three next thing plucking away like a certain Mr Hendrix :tongue: ( i wish )

Channa
 
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