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The Dancing Toddler

21st-Jul-2008 11:23 pm

Katie has, of late, taken to demanding that I open up the guitar case upstairs, pull out the guitar, and play for her before she goes to bed. She then says, "Up!" So I assist her way onto the bed where she strums at the guitar and then starts dancing all over the bed while I play Midnight Girl for her. This is occasionally a hazard for Julie, but

daisy_knotwise does a pretty good job of protecting her from her older sister.

This is all the more entertaining, because my expectation is that I will someday give that guitar to Katie. It's my first Taylor that I bought with some of the money that we inherited from Gretchen's mom.

Giving that guitar to Katie leaves open the question of what I intend to do for Julie about getting her a guitar. Of course, neither girl will be getting a guitar at that level for some years. In fact, by the time that I get around to passing along the first Taylor, good guitar wood will be getting quite scarce.

"The best thing for me to do", I remarked idly to Gretchen, "would be for me to go buy another appropriate Taylor for Julie while it's still possible to buy a fine wooden guitar for a reasonable sum."

This got me The Look^TM.

Well, I was only kidding, as I explained to Gretchen.

Mostly.

Tags:guitar, kids, musings

Comments

22nd-Jul-2008 04:49 am (UTC)

robin_june

You could always buy a Martin instead (grin, duck, & run!)

Seriously, you could buy a new Martin, put it in her name, and she'll have the Lifetime Original Owner Warranty that will save her from ever paying for a neck reset, fret job, bridge lifting, (or even, I think, older sisters putting a foot through the soundboard).

22nd-Jul-2008 05:05 am (UTC)

jcw_da_dmg

It's not an unreasonable concern. Sitka spruce gets rarer all the time.

22nd-Jul-2008 10:52 am (UTC)

the_magician

Buy her a Lowden!

I'm thinking about my friends who bought shares in a barrel of "new" whisky, so that years later (12, 18 or whatever) they would get bottles once it had aged nicely ...

... what you want to do is buy shares in a tree that will be felled, dried, aged and then made into a guitar when Julie gets to 18 or 21 or whatever ... (or maybe a violin or a bouzouki or a mandolin depending on what she decides is her instrument of choice).

Though I don't know of any way of doing that :-)

But big grin to the rest of the story!

22nd-Jul-2008 11:06 am (UTC)

madfilkentist

What if they rebel and decide they only want to play the theremin? :)

22nd-Jul-2008 02:53 pm (UTC)

billroper

I'm fairly sure that there won't be a theremin shortage. :)

23rd-Jul-2008 03:36 am (UTC)

daisy_knotwise

If nothing else, Uncle Jeff could build her one.

GHR

22nd-Jul-2008 12:28 pm (UTC)

mbcrui

Something will come up. Either you'll acquire another guitar or Julie will want something else that you treasure.

22nd-Jul-2008 12:33 pm (UTC) - It's entirely possible

capplor

that she'll choose a DIFFERENT instrument. Tammy shows all signs of having more potential with some kind of brass, but for that she'll have to wait for school band, as Fred & I between us can only go "blat" with one of those.

22nd-Jul-2008 02:07 pm (UTC)

bosswriter

Just wait for the next "go to the store and get whatever we need" moment and voila! We need another Taylor.

Worked for surround sound right?

23rd-Jul-2008 03:51 am (UTC)

billroper

I think Gretchen has expunged that phrase from her vocabulary. :)

22nd-Jul-2008 08:35 pm (UTC)

andpuff

So you're saying I should go buy a Taylor now? *g*

Actually, given the number of your friends without kids but with guitars... If Gretchen holds firm we've probably got Julie covered.

23rd-Jul-2008 03:50 am (UTC)

billroper

On the first point, it's always the right time to buy a Taylor. :) (Actually, that's not quite true. My measure for when you should buy a new guitar is when you can tell the difference and can afford it.)

On the second point, well, that's true, but I'd hate to presume...

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