Acoustic Soundboard: Why We Buy Multiple Guitars

These three OM models from Bourgeois, Collings, and Martin look very similar. All have Adirondack tops edged with herringbone and have nearly identical necks, pickguards, and other appointments, but the characteristic under-the-hood differences, such as interior bracing, result in guitars that sound quite different. Somehow describing such an urge to own several guitars seems like more than just G.A.S. (aka Guitar Acquisition Syndrome, a favorite code term in online forums). In talking to a Stanford professor who owns multiple guitars, I learned that the urge to buy yet another instrument similar to ones we already own might not be mere consumerism at all. Instead, the urge to compare similar instruments in detail is in our DNA. Learning how to discern differences in things that appear to be similar is an important part of human evolutionary development. So, rather than dialing the Wayback Machine to the dawn of rock ’n’ roll and eavesdropping on the development of Les Pauls and Telecasters, let’s go back another couple of hundred thousand years. Caveman Ben and Caveman Bob came back empty handed from the hunt, and are now gathering mushrooms since their respective families will be having soup for dinner instead of bison ribs....

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