I have one pretty nice acoustic guitar and that is enough for me. After all, I can even play that quarter decent. I also have an acoustic bass guitar and an octave mandolin but no immediate plans to expand the collection. I mostly know people in the folk scene and it isn't so much 'how many guitars', though they may have several, but how many types of instruments. I know guitarists who also play mando and uke or mando and banjo, fiddlers who play mando and guitar (and one that plays double bass) etc. One bloke seems to have examples of every type of string instrument known (though not really as he doesn't have sitar or any Asian instruments). He doesn't have cases for all of them as he wouldn't have the space, rather he has a selection of cases and puts the instruments he is taking out tonight in a matching case.
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