What does your spouse/partner think of your playing/buying guitars?

[awdxtc]

My wife is super supportive of my playing. I will echo several other members and say that it helps for us both to be supportive of each other's hobbies. My wife is an equestrian fan and we travel to horse shows with her horse at least one weekend a month.

Because I am supportive it helps her to be supportive of my hobby and passion. So much so that she has purchased a GS mini for me and will be giving it to me on our 1st anniversary which is Monday. We travel a lot together doing short term mission work and she is so excited that I have a guitar to bring along now! I'm pretty sure God knew what He was doing when He brought us together

Now this is what life and relationships are all about, two people feeding off each other to form one strong unity.

[TaylorGirl]

My husband does whatever he can to help me deal with my Acoustic Acquisition Disease.  He's very supportive, not just of my interest in guitar, but all the other instruments as well.  His latest act of kindness and support was a surprise gift of a brand new GS Mini.  He had boughten me a Baby Taylor in 2000, but thought I needed the most current version of the Taylor Travel Guitar.  He suprised me with it last Easter.  He loves to sit and listen to me play, whether it is guitar, dulcimer, uke, or whatever.  I knew he was the right one for me, when we met in 1984, but didn't realize at the time just how great he'd be.  He's my best friend. 

He also built me a custom, solid oak cabinet to house all my instruments.  It's beautiful!  Then, he built me a wood cabinet for the closet in the motorhome to safely transport instruments to festivals.  It's awesome and so is he. 

[Tayzalor]

My husband does whatever he can to help me deal with my Acoustic Acquisition Disease.  He's very supportive, not just of my interest in guitar, but all the other instruments as well.  His latest act of kindness and support was a surprise gift of a brand new GS Mini.  He had boughten me a Baby Taylor in 2000, but thought I needed the most current version of the Taylor Travel Guitar.  He suprised me with it last Easter.  He loves to sit and listen to me play, whether it is guitar, dulcimer, uke, or whatever.  I knew he was the right one for me, when we met in 1984, but didn't realize at the time just how great he'd be.  He's my best friend. 

He also built me a custom, solid oak cabinet to house all my instruments.  It's beautiful!  Then, he built me a wood cabinet for the closet in the motorhome to safely transport instruments to festivals.  It's awesome and so is he. 

Wow! I love the idea of a custom cabinet for my instruments.  I'm not so sure DH would like any more additions to the honey-do list, though.

[michaelw]

My husband does whatever he can to help me deal with my Acoustic Acquisition Disease.  He's very supportive, not just of my interest in guitar, but all the other instruments as well.  His latest act of kindness and support was a surprise gift of a brand new GS Mini.  He had boughten me a Baby Taylor in 2000, but thought I needed the most current version of the Taylor Travel Guitar.  He suprised me with it last Easter.  He loves to sit and listen to me play, whether it is guitar, dulcimer, uke, or whatever.  I knew he was the right one for me, when we met in 1984, but didn't realize at the time just how great he'd be.  He's my best friend. 

He also built me a custom, solid oak cabinet to house all my instruments.  It's beautiful!  Then, he built me a wood cabinet for the closet in the motorhome to safely transport instruments to festivals.  It's awesome and so is he. 

thank you for sharing this

[gitgal]

My husband is supportive of all my interests over the 24 years we've been married.  He enjoys golf and TV.  I enjoy sewing and music. I just purchased an amp.  Last night, as I was practicing guitar, my husband came in the room and asked me what that "thing" was and how "it" worked.  I turned it on and handed him my daughter's Fender A/E that was plugged into it.  He sat on the sofa and goofed off with it for a while.  I think he subconsciously wants to take up guitar playing.  He's picked up one of my guitars more than once and tried to play.

[flaggerphil]

My wife has bought most of my guitars.

 

Not much more I can say about that.

 

[basalt beach]

Wow!...Five weeks ago, the answer would be different than it is today...the better half was supportive but did not understand why a person may want more than 1 or 2 guitars (total).  At the time, I wanted put the GC 8 up for sale, to purchase another guitar, which ended up to be a Bourgeois OO from Redwood Acoustic which arrived while I still had the GC 8 for sale here.  Then when I received the Bourgeois OO, we A/B'd the two. We first put new EJ's16 on the GC 8 to make a fair comparison.  We both preferred the OO, but the better half still liked the GC 8 which sounded great with the new strings, and wanted to keep it.    I said we really need to let one go, so then I heard "I want to play guitar too".   Well, the GC 8 has a new owner like I thought it would, but the owner is in house.   Now, the better half has a half dozen chords learned and is playing "Still the Same" (easy chord version), and reading one hard cover book on guitar and one iPad book on guitar theory.    Also, I received 50% of the cost of the Bourgeois OO as a gift. 

Now, the better half who used to say they all sound good but could tell no real difference in sound between the guitars, now describes the differences between my Taylor 810 Walnut/Cedar, GC 8 (their GC , Northwood OOO and Bourgeois, & the Collings C-10 Deluxe and comments on the sound differences qualities and even string suggestions. 

Life is good, I am blessed....and I gotta feeling Christmas & Birthdays will be a lot more interesting! Whoa!

[michaelw]

Wow!...Five weeks ago, the answer would be different than it is today...the better half was supportive but did understand why a person may want more than 1 or 2 guitars (total).  At the time, I wanted put the GC 8 up for sale, to purchase another guitar, which ended up to be a Bourgeois OO from Redwood Acoustic which arrived while I still had the GC 8 for sale here.  Then when I received the Bourgeois OO, we A/B'd the two. We first put new EJ's16 on the GC 8 to make a fair comparison.  We both preferred the OO, but the better half still liked the GC 8 which sounded great with the new strings, and wanted to keep it.    I said we really need to let one go, so then I heard "I want to play guitar too".   Well, the GC 8 has a new owner like I thought it would, but the owner is in house.   Now, the better half has a half dozen chords learned and is playing "Still the Same" (easy chord version), and reading one hard cover book on guitar and one iPad book on guitar theory.    Also, I received 50% of the cost of the Bourgeois OO as a gift. 

Now, the better half who used to say they all sound good but could tell no real difference in sound between the guitars, now describes the differences between my Taylor 810 Walnut/Cedar, GC 8 (their GC , Northwood OOO and Bourgeois, & the Collings C-10 Deluxe and comments on the sound differences qualities and even string suggestions. 

Life is good, I am blessed....and I gotta feeling Christmas & Birthdays will be a lot more interesting! Whoa!

nice
thanks for sharing this
very cool

[cigarfan]

Wow!...Five weeks ago, the answer would be different than it is today...the better half was supportive but did not understand why a person may want more than 1 or 2 guitars (total).  At the time, I wanted put the GC 8 up for sale, to purchase another guitar, which ended up to be a Bourgeois OO from Redwood Acoustic which arrived while I still had the GC 8 for sale here.  Then when I received the Bourgeois OO, we A/B'd the two. We first put new EJ's16 on the GC 8 to make a fair comparison.  We both preferred the OO, but the better half still liked the GC 8 which sounded great with the new strings, and wanted to keep it.    I said we really need to let one go, so then I heard "I want to play guitar too".   Well, the GC 8 has a new owner like I thought it would, but the owner is in house.   Now, the better half has a half dozen chords learned and is playing "Still the Same" (easy chord version), and reading one hard cover book on guitar and one iPad book on guitar theory.    Also, I received 50% of the cost of the Bourgeois OO as a gift. 

Now, the better half who used to say they all sound good but could tell no real difference in sound between the guitars, now describes the differences between my Taylor 810 Walnut/Cedar, GC 8 (their GC , Northwood OOO and Bourgeois, & the Collings C-10 Deluxe and comments on the sound differences qualities and even string suggestions. 

Life is good, I am blessed....and I gotta feeling Christmas & Birthdays will be a lot more interesting! Whoa!

Oh what I would give to be in your situation. That is really special!

[zaskar1]

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my wife is not very supportive as she thinks i am not a very good guitar player.
thats ok, as she is probably correct.
i was taking this classical guitar class at the local JC, and made some comments like, some of the kids
in the class are accomplished musicians and are much better guitarists than me.
she enthusiastically agreed with me.

however, i am constantly trying to improve, so perhaps one day she will appreciate my capabilities.

also, she thinks aquiring new guitars is a waste of time and resources.
she told me, you have a few guitars, why do you need more? you only can play one at a time.

being the stubborn old guy that i am, i really dont listen to her, but retreat to my little space,
and play my guitars!

z

2012 Taylor 814ce
very old Goya G-10
Fender Telecaster

[Scriptor]

My wife is an accomplished pianist so she understands the love of music ... however, she definitely does not understand my needing more than one guitar and several other instruments ... when we were first married, we lived in a small appartment ... there really wasn't much room for my musical stuff so she "encouraged" me to sell off all but one acoustic guitar ... all my electric guitars, amps, pedals got sold off ... flash forward to the last 10 years or so, I have come back into music strongly, re-acquired some quality instruments, amps and pedals, learned some other instruments I had always wanted to ... at most these days, she tolerates my musical purchases and we don't have many "discussions" about them like we used to ...  I don't have any other expensive hobbies and it helps when she buys 2 or 3 expensive keyboards because those "beasts" cost as much as 2+ high-end acoustics ...

[bigb]

Great stories!

I'd say my wife is, patient.
As a noodler with little discipline and little talent, I can tend to run over the same things too often which can be tiresome for her. Especially when I'm competing with the TV.
She is very encouraging though when I've put something new together and will then suggest I start recording my "songs".

On the buying front, I've been a very infrequent buyer. Just a mim strat in '02, a 314 in '04, and my BTO last year. She's always been very open when I talk about new guitars, even if I don't pull the trigger much (maybe that's why?). I always explain my rationale but I know her lack of resistance on a new purchasing (been recently considering a change on the electric) will probably translate to another purchase by and for her, which is fair enough.

[e8n]

My wife also plays (more electric than acoustic).  For our 25th last year I offered to get her a big ring or a custom Taylor.  She chose the Taylor and couldn't be happier.  The only place we have differences is I'm willing to move guitars on and get something else.  She is emotionally attached to every guitar she owns.

-Dave

[Steve]

My wife's cool with it but, to be honest, I haven't really put it to the test lately. I simply don't play guitar too much anymore. A little here, a little there, but maybe only an hour or two a month at this point, and that's being generous.

Now, if this question had to do with photography and photo gear, well, that'd be a completely different story...

 

[dcarey]

Well, let's see...she bought me a Lowden O12, a Taylor XXX-RS, and a Taylor K12.  I guess she likes my playing, but I really don't have to worry about buying.

I am truly blessed! She's a Keeper!

Dan