to think that 7 guitars

[ModreB]

2 keyboards, a saxaphone and various other musical equipment is too much for a small house containing 4 people, only 2 of whom can actually play an instrument?

[TakeLovingChances]

YANBU....

Unless the person is using the instruments to make money, in which case YABU.

[upahill]

No I don't as long as they are regularly used by the people that can play.

[ModreB]

My point is, how many guitars can you play at one time?

[trumpton]

2 guitars,3 concertinas, 1 piano accordian,1 button accordian, 1 electric piano, 1 victorian parlour piano, too many whistles to count. Various world music instruments that I don't the words for. ( Can you tell I am not musical ?)

I don,t play anything and it's only DH and me here ....Oh no sorry ....he is out at choir. Happy Saturday night to me and hello to a bottle of wine.

Ps He is not a profesional, he loves music and I love him.

[DragonMamiCooksWelshCakes]

We have 8 guitars, a piano, double bass, 2 mandolins, a violin & a drumkit as well as other random bits of percussion. DiddyDragon has her own little keyboard too. And don't get me started on the amps.

I think musical instruments split like amoebas & breed while you're not looking. Sheet music does this too & before you know where you are you're tripping over great piles of the stuff.

It's just a side effect of being musical.

[Pixel]

We've got 9 guitars, 1 keyboard and 1 sax, plus amps etc, and only 2 musical people in our small house. I feel your pain so YANBU.

[usualsuspect]

My ds has 4 guitars 3 amps and 2 wah wah pedals plus 4 miles of various leads ..hes saving up for a new guitar ..he does play them all though

[HumphreyCobbler]

it is usually the guitars that multiply though

you don't tend to get a flute player with nine different flutes

[upahill]

Well quite clearly you can only play one guitar at one time OP but different guitars have different sounds obviously.

My Dh asks how many rucksacs do I need? Again I can only use one at a time but all seven have different uses.

[ModreB]

It's not just the guitars, it's the amps, foot pedals, leads and various other crap that comes with them. We no longer have room in the coat cupboard for coats, as it is full of guitar stuff I cant even get to the coat hooks. I have had to move my ironing board, to make space to put a guitar in the corner.

Oh, and I also stabbed myself in the foot with a bit of wire that had been snipped off after a string change.

I am sure that they are breeding at night.

[libelulle]

4 clarinets, 1 violin, 2 pianos (one acoustic one electric), 1 cello and 1 guitar, plus various recorders/tin whistles/triangles etc. And that's before we've have the chance to interest foist our obsessions on our two children. Wish instruments did breed in the night. Would a cello/violin coupling give birth to a viola or a double bass?

[musicposy]

2 pianos, 1 full sized keyboard (about to get a second), 1 guitar, 1 violin, 1 harp, 1 ukelele, 2 clarinets, loads of recorders (probably near to a dozen), and about to buy a huge drum kit for DD2. That's not to mention music stands, keyboard stands, cupboards and cupboards full of music, etc etc. Oh, and only me and DD2 play properly. I'm currently toying with the idea of getting rid of the dining table to fit in a grand piano...

Sorry, but musical people tend to do this. Your house gets overtaken by instruments that mysteriously multiply. Because however small your house is, there's always room for one more!

[upahill]

'I am sure that they are breeding at night.'

My DH says excatly the same about the number of rucsacks I have

[Meow75]

Not musical instruments, but GW models that do regularly get played with outside our home thankfully - but by god, they take up some room. Not bad considering they are only about 5 or 6 cm high!!!!

[EccentricaGallumbits]

2 classical guitars, 1 electric guitar with amp. 2 flutes, 1 violin., assorted recorders, a keyboard and a djembe. 4 people - 2 musical ones. i quite fancy a piano but have no room

[Snobear4000]

SHould not have hooked up with a musician if you don't like instruments. You had better chuck them all out in a car boot sale and wait about, oh, five seconds for your DP to leave you. Horrid horrid person.

We have dozens of instruments in the house, some belong to DS. Wouldn't trade them for anything. Not even a big fuck-off telly.

[SeaTrek]

YANBU...

We [DH} are worse. I cannot even list all the stuff...it starts with 13 guitars (not enough, apparently), 2 drum kits and goes on and on...

[SeaTrek]

I should add that I secretly love them... . But, really, does he need ANOTHER when he moans about me spending x amount of a new bib?

[5Foot5]

Here we have:

• a trombone,
  
• a trumpet,
  
• a cornet,
  
• a tenor saxophone,
  
• four violins,
  
• a guitar,
  
• a piano accordian,
  
• a concertina,
  
• at least four recorders of varying sizes,
  
• a tin whistle,
  
• a harmonica,
  
• an ocarina,
  
• a small keyboard
  
• and a bowed psaltery.
  

There are three of us. What's the problem?

[Snobear4000]

Imagine someone saying of their bookworm wife, "honestly, how many books can you read at once?"

Once again, don't hook up with a musician unless you like music, musical instruments, and value the wonderful escapist gift that making music is. Regardless of any monetary gain.

[AgentProvocateur]

We have a room full of instruments. Numerous guitars, piano, keyboard, drums, clarinet, flute, oboe, mandolin etc etc, and more amps than you can shake a stick at.

It's fine, because it's all contained in one room. In fact, one of the reasons we moved house was so to get a music rooms, and so that DH and DS1 could make as much noise as they wanted without disturbing any neighbours.

DS2 and I are not musical, but I see how much pleasure the others get from their instruments, and I sometimes wish I had something that I was so passionate about.

[DragonMamiCooksWelshCakes]

"Wish instruments did breed in the night. Would a cello/violin coupling give birth to a viola or a double bass?"

It probably depends on whether it's a male cello & female violin or vice versa. Like ligers & tigrons. :)

[musicposy]

Eccentrica, there's always room for a piano! I have a yamaha clavinova in the bedroom (we only have a small terraced house) and it's very compact. I love it because I can tinker around at night without disturbing anyone (mmm, turn of phrase there not great but still ).

5foot5, I think you have beaten me!

[Littlefish]

5foot5 - what is a "bowed psaltery"?

[musicposy]

Is it a type of old fashioned harp? (making a stab at it as I play the harp and I think I have heard of it). Presumably you can play it with a bow?