4 bass guitars
2 amps
2 cabs
1 mixer (sold another mixer, amp, mains)
gig bag full o stuff
3 soft cases
2 hard cases
mic stand, various guitar stands....
yeah, I feel your pain. I just haven’t bought my own mic yet :)
Once had a harmonica player that played with our band regularly.. he had a special case for his harps and would NOT let anyone else touch or carry it. A lot of $$$$ invested.
You can get a custom tuned and tweeked Seydel diatonic out of Belgium for about $160. I am sure there are more expensive instruments but I am not sure there are better. If you take the major/minor keys in standard turning that is 17 instruments I believe. You add in country turning and what’s called Paddy Richter tuning and you can get another 25 to 35. That doesn’t even begin to get into the Chromatics which go from 200 to 2000. Then you have the orchestral that a blues player has no need of and you get downright stupid in cost for an instrument that needs an overhaul by an environmental surgeon about every 300th hour of playing or maybe throw it away and just buy a new one.
If you forget and put it in your pocket in a moment of haste, bang a bit of pocket lint just ruined it blocking one of 20 reeds.
Yet, a good musician can get by with a $35 dollar instrument for a dozen songs if need be.
Its like great photographers can take an outstanding picture with a dime store throwaway camera and I am digging in my Nikon bag trying to assemble equipment for another three hours.
I think I told you when we got together in 2013 but my son plays the bass as his passion away from teaching science. He also plays some blues tuned viola.