A question for the guitarists

[ericcoleman]

I am sitting here at a very cool cafe in Des Moines waiting for the other folks for the old time jam. I stopped at a friends and couldnt stay because I wanted my guitar to have a chance to warm up a bit, since he's been in the trunk all morning.

So there is the question. I call him a He. Both of my guitars I refer to as He.

Do your guitars have a gender, do they have a name?

Just curious.

I refer to the Martin as Martin. He's a regular guy, a working guy. He's got a manly sort of voice and attitude.

I refer to the Takamine as Prince Tisanne (and a winky button to anyone who can come up with the logic that led me to that name). He's showier, more flamboyant..

Comments

[freeimprov.livejournal.com]

My guitars don't have genders or names, except for Kallisti, which is a she.

An old bandmate once told me that naming your guitar is like naming your dick. :P

[ericcoleman]

I have never named my own dick, but it has been named by others. Everything else is on a need to know basis, and well ...

[mplsfish.livejournal.com]

My mother told me not to trust a guy who didn't name it. That guy isn't properly acknowledging that it has it's own personality and goals.

[freeimprov.livejournal.com]

I don't need the name to acknowledge its independence. I just remember a quote from the movie "Used Cars"... "Don't let the little head do the thinking for the big head".

[the2wittybird.livejournal.com]

Mine's gonna be female I'm pretty sure and will most likely end up being named Kali. But I can't name her yet. i don't think i've given her so much as an hour a month since I got her last year and her name won't properly crystalize till she's had some proper bonding time. Plus I don't wanna bring down the wrath of Goddess Kali by then ignoring one of Her namesakes.

[liana]

Tachyon, flamboyant? Nah, you must be thinking of that other alien from the planet Takis....

;)

[ericcoleman]

now I have to find a damn winky button

You are the only one to ever get it ...

[liana]

Nobody else has read that series? Huh.

Though I admit it started tanking after about book 5 (or was it 6?).

[ericcoleman]

apparently of the folks I know ... no ...

and yeah ...that was about when it started losing me too, although I read the rest. I blame Melissa Snodgrass mostly ... it seemed that it was her ideas that crapped things up. But I could be wrong

The 3 book series that came later was quite good I thought though ...

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

Hey, I read it! Still have them all, somewhere (okay, I gave up after the first series ended). Good stuff.

guitar genders

[weirdchic862.livejournal.com]

My guitar is a she, but I havn't given her a name yet...

[daisy-knotwise.livejournal.com]

We have, at last count, 12 guitars and a ukelele in the house. Most of the ones that get played have names. I named them. Roper is not a namer. The named ones have genders. All but one are male. The lone female is Gracie. She is the lovely little Sigma that Roper bought me because Roger was too big for me to get my arm around. Roger is my Yamaha. He is too big for me. My other guitar is a claiscal that I inherated from my mother. His name is Gas because he is not electric.

Of Roper's guitars, the Guild 12 is Guild. (Lots of imagination there...)
The Guild 6 is mostly nameless. The big Taylor is (guess what!) Taylor. The new Taylor with the electronics s Steve Austen. The Baby Taylor is Sweet Baby James. But my favorite is Frankenbass. It is the baratone guitar that was put together by grafting an long thick neck onto a Telecaster body. Roper doesn't play it nearly as often as he should.

GHR

Names

[medtronicofborg.livejournal.com]

Hey dude thanks for the great music at SACC party! And congrats on being on the same CD with Weird Al. See if you can figure out who this is. Woha hah ah a

Re: Names

[ericcoleman]

heh ... like it's difficult ..

you say where you live in your user info ... hi ...

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

I never named any of my other guitars, but my Tacoma is Tiger (male). Somehow it just seemed that way.

[wylderwolf.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that my Fender is a he, but he doesn't have a name as of yet.

[tlunquist.livejournal.com]

Three guitars, no names, no genders. I used to name my cars but got out of the habit after Eikoku-Jin (my 1984 Honda Accord that was stoic like an Englishwoman yet of definite Japanese origin (hence Eikoku-Jin, Japanese for Englishwoman).

I think I might have named the '95 Civic, but promptly forgot what, and never bothered with the 2003 Matrix.

My guitars have never really expressed enough "personality" to warrant gender or name. If I were going to name them, the Yamaha would be "Scout" because it is small, nimble, and willing to go camping. The Rick would probably just be "Rick" and the Fender 12 would need a name consistent with what it did for me, which was unlock the vault of music I had inside all along but was unaware previous to the Fender's arrival.

[cyohtee.livejournal.com]

I have never named any of my guitars over the years (do not even currently own one, and would be so rusty I wouldn't want anyone near me when I tried to play one either at this point), but I have felt that all of them had genders, and not all of them were the same. My old beater, the original nylon accoustic I had was male, and not a young male either. My Gibson Les Paul electric was definitely male as well. My Yamaha accoustic 12 string was a female all the way, as well as the last guitar I had, a cheap little Epiphone nylon accoustic that my step son ran off to Florida with a couple of years ago. I also had at one point a cute little casio guitar synthesizer (it had strings you strummed and picked to make the music, just like a guitar, but it was a full range synthesizer) that I am positive was a hermaphrodite. :)

[hardly-angelic.livejournal.com]

My Les Paul Custom is the Raven. My Strat's name is Rachel, and my Washburn Idol is Butter. My Ovation 12 string is called "I'm not playing it until someone else restrings and tunes the SOB for me because I'm really lazy."

Names and genders

[markiv1111.livejournal.com]

Most of my guitars are named and are female, but George (a left-handed Yamaha classic currently on loan to Bodi_Kat) is male. My classical guitar, which I usually take with me to cons, is Rainbow. The steel-string Guild acoustic that was my usual con guitar until about six years ago is Goldilocks (after the character in Little Fuzzy, but also a play on gold/Guild). I have a cherry-red Ibanez electric named Cherry, and a white Ibanez electric named Whitey; my Godin electric is Godchild; the guitar Louie and I bought from Gordy Dickson's estate (a lovely 1952 Martin 00-18) is just Gordy's guitar. My stage bass is Blue Fox. There are a few others where I don't use the name consistently, and therefore may as well not have it. Occasionally I've named cars, but the one Louie and I currently drive is unnamed.

Nate Bucklin

Re: Names and genders

[ericcoleman]

Gordy Dickson's estate (a lovely 1952 Martin 00-18)

oooh ... oooh ... now that is a guitar that I want to meet (for two reasons even)

Re: Names and genders

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

What he said. Totally.