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  I recently, on you tube, caught an old interview with James Taylor where he went into his climate controlled vault and showed off some of his old guitars. He made a statement that these guitars had worn out ,that they eventually get to a point where they don't sound good anymore.( this was a while ago and I can't remember exactly why he felt they wore out ,just that he doesn't play them anymore)

     I have a lot of time for James Taylor, and anything he has to say about guitars I'm going to listen to.  My immediate reaction however was to scratch  my head  as I fix old guitars all the time, and it seems to me that the older they get the better they sound. (yes they need frets and neck resets etc). he obviously can afford to pay a luthier, there must be something else at play here

  Now James plays a lot, he's a working musician, putting many more hours on a guitar than many,

    Can anybody shed any light on this comment ( then perhaps I'll write to him and offer to start fixing  his guitars)

Ciao

Peter

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