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The demographic that played the guitar is getting old and dying off.

I agree with you. I am old but not dead yet.

I quit electric years ago but I still please a lot of people playing my Gibson Hummingbird.

In my 66 years I've taught a few people how to play. It's been fun so far...

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I quit electric years ago but I still please a lot of people playing my Gibson Hummingbird.

I played endlessly as a teenager, in bands and whatnot. I lived and breathed the electric guitar. I lost interest and gave it up when I was in college and wound up selling (mostly pawning) all my gear.

As I entered my mid 30s, I found myself with the disposable income to purchase all the stuff I coveted as a teen. Now at 48, I now have a nice collection of top-shelf American-made Gibson Les Pauls, Fenders, Martin acoustics, British Marshall tube amplifiers and on and on. It's a nice collection of beautiful instruments that I'm proud of.

I just don't really have the time to practice so much these days. The skills aren't what they used to be.

People look at my gear and ask if I play. "I'm not so great at playing guitars." I reply, "but I'm really good at buying them!"

I am 63. I play mostly progressive metal. Been playing instruments most of my life. Woodwinds, Keyboards, Violin, etc. Mostly classical training.

What I like about what I play is that it merges some of my favorite motifs. Bach, Miles Davis and Deep Purple to name a few. I keep 8 different guitars tuned to different keys to be able to switch styles on the fly. All of them hot-rodded.

I still suck as a player but have fun with it.