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I think they do get jealous... Once, in junior high school, I had a favorite diva- er, guitar. An Aria. Chimey, narrow-waisted and bejangled with 12 strings, she went with me everywhere... to parties, to school, to university, even to family dinners. We were inseperable (as my mother pointed out more than once).

Then one day I found a new love. She was dark (sunburst), exotic and German. I called her "Framus". We became inseperable, and poor Aria wound up spending weeks, then months alone in her case, unattended.

One day, my German pet was at the salon getting some minor work done (shhh- she thought I didn't know, but she was older, and it took the odd salon-slash-spa day to rejuvenate her dark good looks) and I needed a guitar to play, so I took my old friend Aria.

Well, old Aria threw a fit, broke three of her barely two year old strings in the first ten minutes, then sealed her fate by shattering a bridge pin when I tried to replace one of the broken strings.. Maybe I was in too much of a hurry. Maybe I treated Aria too roughly, I don't know, but she she let me know her displeasure that day.

We parted company soon after that. Sadly, Framus -my dark German beauty- was stolen away by another (unknown to me) less than three months later. If I had still had Aria, she would have become my Number One again, but alas, she was with someone new by then... I found a new Aria, kept her for nearly a decade, but she wasn't the same as the first one.. and you DO always remember your first...

True story.

The 360/12 that I had many moons ago if played regularly would play like a charm but would do the strangest things if you put it away for a bit, I never played it enough to keep it behaving so I eventually sold it. One day when I have the funds and the right one comes along I would like to get another Rickenbacker 12. A 80s 330/12 player sounds good to me........

I have an early-90's 330/12 and am very attached to it. Great string-spacing and nice jangle, especially now that I've replaced the hi gains with toasters.

Folkie wrote:I have an early-90's 330/12 and am very attached to it. Great string-spacing and nice jangle, especially now that I've replaced the hi gains with toasters.

But did those hi-gains get jealous?

Sorry, gotta return this thread to its original inanity

The hi gains didn't object too much, although the Texas Specials on my Strat seem to think I'm overusing the toaster tops on my Rics!

I don't know about guitars, but my E-type convertible was definitely jealous when I started dating my wife. Every time we would go out, the car would do something (as is want for all old British tin, but only when my wife and I would go out? Hmm.), but not otherwise. So one bright warm Saturday before we got married I had her come over and help me wash, wax and detail it. After that, the car never gave even a moment's trouble when we were in it. Yes, it has had it's share of other mechanical issues since, but never with her riding in it after she helped wash, wax & detail it that one time!