A new addition to the family

Last month in October, it was my birthday, and I came home with one of my favourite guitars. There's a new guitar shop directly around the corner from my house, so it's a perfect deal if I need new pedals, cables, straps, leads or cleaning equipment and / or cases, so I ended up going over there with my guitar to see how much I could get for it.

I wasn't actually planning on selling it that day, but I ended up finding a Fender Duo-Sonic in surf pearl that caught my eye. I've been after a Duo-Sonic for a while now, and I've always wanted to play one. Is it would have it, the previous time I came to the shop, I played the same one I ended up buying, but I got it for a discounted price than what they usually go for, which is in the £450 - £500 range. I was given an appraisal on my guitar and I was offered a trade price to go towards the Duo-Sonic.

The guitar which I traded was a Squier Vintage Modified Mustang in Fiesta Red, which is a beautiful guitar was a lovely, crisp and clean tone. It's a guitar best suited for rock, but it has the perfect tone for blues and almost any other genre except for metal. I loved that guitar to the absolute death because I remember telling my grandmother how much I was dying to get one, so she surprisingly gave me a little bit of money to go towards it. For that reason, because of my grandma's place in my life, and because I ended up getting the Duo-Sonic for a trade in, I feel sad.

Don't get me wrong, the Duo-Sonic is a brilliant guitar with the perfect scale and feel for my personal requirements, and it's the easiest and most-do-able guitar I've ever had, but I really just want my Mustang back. It was my main guitar out of the six that I owned at the time, and it's the one that I used to write and play all of my earliest songs. One of my fears as owning guitars and knowing I'll sell one or two in the future is that I don't know who will get it or if they'll appreciate it and respect it. Last thing I want to know is that the person who got my guitar trashed it or completely ruined the paintwork and tore out all the electrics.

But I'm stuck with the Duo-Sonic for now, and that means that I'll have to get used to it. Not going to be a smooth process in the long run, but it should serve me well, and I hope that whoever got my Mustang (considering it sold already) treats it with the kind of love and respect that I did. I kept telling my dad, who went with me, that I felt like I ''just gave away one of my children for adoption'', and anybody who plays guitar or who has owned a lot and sold them will only understand how it feels. You can't pick between your babies and choose a single favourite; you love them equally so.

(Do I seem too attached to my instruments? )

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