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Welcome to the AGF! Nothing wrong with taking your guitar to day long jams, that's what they're meant for.
Guessing you don't leave your guitar in car where the inside temp exceeds 100 degrees? That would be negligent. |
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2 hygrometers ordered one for inside one for outside. Thanks for all the comments and advice. Stay tuned! 😉
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You're near Chicago, I'm near STL. There are plenty of bluegrass festivals or weekend jams within a reasonable drive from you. Back 40 bluegrass fest and Bill Monroe Bluegrass Festival come to mind. You could probably jam even longer than that if you wanted
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Guitars are meant to be played, so I wouldn't take an expensive instrument outside if I knew rain was expected without having a really good case handy, and I'd be wary of playing in hot sun. But I have an Ovation that's well suited to wet / hot conditions. |
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Welcome aboard, BeYou.
I think you’re using your guitar as it was intended. The winters where you are may be an issue if your heat is dry. Never leave it in a hot car for a long time—or in a dark case in the bright sun for hours in the summer.
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My Martin was played outside, along with a Taylor 510 and a Collings koa SJ, for over 2 hours not 200 yards from the ocean on breezy, partly cloudy, 45°F Easter Sunday. All of these instruments were built to make music, not to be coveted.
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I know its not popular to assert this, but I keep my guitars out so that they're easily playable. They're on stands in inner rooms, no windows and completely climate controlled. I'm not worried about anything beyond fret-sprout, and that's a minor inconvenience. I can't imagine that guitar owners in the 70s and 80s did much more than that.
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Am I negligent?
I’m right up the road from you in Mayodan, and I’ve generally kept my instruments, including a 20’s Gibson that spent several decades in a tobacco barn, and a 50’s J-50 that I owned for a while, out in my house with 0 issues. I keep my Huss and Dalton cased with a Humidipak when not in use, but that’s more of a “protect it from everything else” in the house, rather than humidity.
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Unless you don't care if it cracks one day, keep it in the ideal range of humidity at all times.
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There’s a lot of what I consider to be paranoia on this topic on the AGF.
Unless the environment your guitar is in has frequent or long term temperature and/or extreme changes in humidity, don’t worry about it. That’s my advice, take it or leave it. Have a great day and enjoy your guitar!
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And I'm pretty attentive to all of my instruments; care, maintenance, keep them tuned and played.. Last edited by FingahPickah; 04-22-2022 at 07:04 AM. |
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Well, I used to keep my former laminates on cheap stands.
Then, came my first solid wood with attentionate care and pauses in OHSC when not played. With the building of a herd of solid wood acoustics came the "fill the sponges" weekly job... I got fed up with. I now humidify the whole room and have one or two acoustics hung by their neck on a stand at a time : Why not ? Not worse than lying in a gigbag, is it ? And now, I dream of a wall with two rows of nicely hung acoustics. And I cannot believe I DO dream of that !
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Gonna have to look those up
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Like humans, guitars vary in their fragility. The changes take place slowly, perhaps unnoticed, until.....
When you want to play it, play it, for just as long as you like. But when the outside humidity levels are way off from the 45-55% range, then, when not being played, I'd case it with proper humidity control. Here in upstate NY, I leave mine out much of the year - during the warmer months. But in the winter when the home gets very dry, they are cased and humidified when not being played.
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