annathepiper | A thought (Reply)

solarbird and I have had the pleasure a couple of times now of jamming with

stealthcello at her place. As part of that experience, Betsy graciously allowed me to handle her new guitar, a loverly loverly thing that's not much bigger than Rags, actually, yet which has an astonishingly full sound. It's got a carbon-fiber body and it's just generally gorgeous. It and its various cousins live here, specifically the Cargo model.

As I have already resolved to get myself a guitar capable of holding its own against fair and crowd noise if Dara and I busk at Folklife next summer, this particular guitar model is calling my name. VERY LOUDLY. Especially the green Cargo. But oh my ack the price tag.

I am flirting with the very silly idea of, on Faerie Blood's release date, issuing the challenge that if I sell enough copies of the book to buy me one of those guitars, I will post video of myself playing it. As a backup plan, I could aim lower for one of the less spectacularly pretty but nonetheless severely kickass Seagull guitars, after having seen both

auntmonkey and

radarrider play them.

What do you think, folks? Sound like fun?