Members ggm1960 Posted October 12, 2011 Members Share Posted October 12, 2011 I've had my GoldTop LP for so long and it's still my number one all time favorite guitar I've been thinking I should have it put in my coffin when I die. Anyone else have similar feelings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vito Corleone Posted October 12, 2011 Members Share Posted October 12, 2011 Considering I'm pretty adamant about wanting to be cremated as opposed to letting my corpse being pumped full of formaldehyde and then left to slowly rot and be eaten by worms...no...I haven't had similar feelings. And...I don't have any big attachment to any musical instrument...but I think if I did I'd want that instrument to "live on" in the hands of somebody else. I'd probably will it to somebody I either really want to see play it or leave it to my kid and hope she respects it in my memory. I read recently that Bernard Edwards left his classic Music Man bass to John Taylor of Duran Duran. I thought that was a pretty cool story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SLScott86 Posted October 12, 2011 Members Share Posted October 12, 2011 I guess you could. Is there a loved one that it would mean more to? My grandfather gave me his road warrior 62 strat, with a date book of every place he'd played with it just before he passed. It might be the most special moment of my life, and if you can do that for someone else, I would strongly, strongly advise doing so. It will mean more to them than it will to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ggm1960 Posted October 12, 2011 Author Members Share Posted October 12, 2011 I'd want that instrument to "live on" in the hands of somebody else. Yeah, that's the thing isn't it. It sorta seems like it would be selfish and greedy to take such a nice instrument to the grave. Perhaps though it would be like a time capsule that someone would dig up in a 1000 years! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SLScott86 Posted October 12, 2011 Members Share Posted October 12, 2011 Whatever you decide to do, get something in writing. If God forbid something were to happen, you don't want it to be a point of contention, which people's most prized possessions sometimes can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chaff67 Posted October 12, 2011 Members Share Posted October 12, 2011 As much as I am attached to my guitars, I would not want to see them go to waste in a grave. I agree with Guido and SLScott, I would rather that someone else have it and get as much joy from the instrument as it brought me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ggm1960 Posted October 12, 2011 Author Members Share Posted October 12, 2011 Is there a loved one that it would mean more to? My grandfather gave me his road warrior 62 strat, with a date book of every place he'd played with it just before he passed. It might be the most special moment of my life, and if you can do that for someone else, I would strongly, strongly advise doing so. It will mean more to them than it will to you. It's not the oldest, or most valuable guitar, I have. My only offspring is a daughter (currently 18 and in college) who doesn't seem to have any interest in playing instruments. Regardless, she'll be left with everything else I own including several other valuable instruments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vito Corleone Posted October 12, 2011 Members Share Posted October 12, 2011 Yeah, that's the thing isn't it. It sorta seems like it would be selfish and greedy to take such a nice instrument to the grave. Perhaps though it would be like a time capsule that someone would dig up in a 1000 years! Nah. More likely it would just get bulldozed over for a new shopping center in a couple of hundred years and nobody remembers who is in that cemetary anymore. You have a kid(s) right? I can't imagine not loving to have my dad's favorite guitar if he were a player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Crustee Posted October 12, 2011 Members Share Posted October 12, 2011 I've had my GoldTop LP for so long and it's still my number one all time favorite guitar I've been thinking I should have it put in my coffin when I die. Anyone else have similar feelings? Dumb and selfish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SLScott86 Posted October 12, 2011 Members Share Posted October 12, 2011 It's not the oldest, or most valuable guitar, I have. My only offspring is a daughter (currently 18 and in college) who doesn't seem to have any interest in playing instruments. Regardless, she'll be left with everything else I own including several other valuable instruments. I would ask her. Regardless of value, the one you loved most will have the most sentimental value. If she isn't a musician, she might just as soon you take it with you. Funerals and burials are solely for the living. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SLScott86 Posted October 12, 2011 Members Share Posted October 12, 2011 Can we have the coordinates of your burial lot? Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pickinatit Posted October 12, 2011 Members Share Posted October 12, 2011 Sentimental appreciation by your loved one or not....even if they only sell it off wouldn't you rather see the living derive SOME kind of benefit from the fruits/tools of your labor ? I think to take anything of value to your grave is a somewhat selfish and foolish act. I wouldn't blame any relative/loved one for disregarding that burial request. Just my opinion though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vito Corleone Posted October 12, 2011 Members Share Posted October 12, 2011 Sentimental appreciation by your loved one or not....even if they only sell it off wouldn't you rather see the living derive SOME kind of benefit from the fruits/tools of your labor ? I think to take anything of value to your grave is a somewhat selfish and foolish act. I wouldn't blame any relative/loved one for disregarding that burial request. Just my opinion though. As they say, you can't take it with you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ggm1960 Posted October 12, 2011 Author Members Share Posted October 12, 2011 Can we have the coordinates of your burial lot? Thanks in advance. I have a plot out in the little graveyard where my dad is buried. It's really out in the sticks though, I'm not even sure that I could find it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vito Corleone Posted October 12, 2011 Members Share Posted October 12, 2011 I gotta ask--what's the basis for the feeling of wanting to be buried with it? A sense that somehow you and the guitar will be attached together for eternity if it's buried with your body? A sense that you don't want anyone else to ever play something that was always YOURS? That it might just be cool for people to say "he was buried with his guitar"? Or something else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ggm1960 Posted October 12, 2011 Author Members Share Posted October 12, 2011 I gotta ask--what's the basis for the feeling of wanting to be buried with it?A sense that somehow you and the guitar will be attached together for eternity if it's buried with your body?A sense that you don't want anyone else to ever play something that was always YOURS?That it might just be cool for people to say "he was buried with his guitar"?Or something else? That's a tough question to answer, probably mostly the idea that I'm the only one who's ever owned it and it just feels like such a part of me after having spent so many years learning to play it, taking care of it and using it. It was even stolen once but was returned after applying some.....um....coercion. Sure it's a nice guitar but again it's not the oldest, or most valuable one I have. God willing I live for a while yet I'm sure to acquire more valuable instruments. My daughter will be left with a great deal of valuable assets upon my demise even without this one guitar. More than I was left with to be sure! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SLScott86 Posted October 12, 2011 Members Share Posted October 12, 2011 That's a tough question to answer, probably mostly the idea that I'm the only one who's ever owned it and it just feels like such a part of me after having spent so many years learning to play it, taking care of it and using it. It was even stolen once but was returned after applying some.....um....coercion.Sure it's a nice guitar but again it's not the oldest, or most valuable one I have. God willing I live for a while yet I'm sure to acquire more valuable instruments. My daughter will be left with a great deal of valuable assets upon my demise even without this one guitar. More than I was left with to be sure! If your parent had something like that, wouldn't you cherish it for a little more than the cash value? I mean, imagine when she has kids. Would you rather her tell her kids about that guitar? Or show them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members Vito Corleone Posted October 12, 2011 Members Share Posted October 12, 2011 Sure it's a nice guitar but again it's not the oldest, or most valuable one I have. God willing I live for a while yet I'm sure to acquire more valuable instruments. My daughter will be left with a great deal of valuable assets upon my demise even without this one guitar. More than I was left with to be sure! Read what you're saying here. You sound like you think your daughter will only be interested in the monetary value of what you leave her. She just might cherish your beloved guitar above the other stuff worth more money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gspointer Posted October 12, 2011 Members Share Posted October 12, 2011 Nothing at all wrong with it. It is yours to do with what you want. The reason doesn't matter either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ggm1960 Posted October 12, 2011 Author Members Share Posted October 12, 2011 If your parent had something like that, wouldn't you cherish it for a little more than the cash value?I mean, imagine when she has kids. Would you rather her tell her kids about that guitar? Or show them? That's a good point. Hopefully I'll be around long enough to know a grandchild or two, could change my whole way of thinking. In fact I could even meet a non-family member that I'd eventually feel was worthy of the instrument but that's just not the case at the current time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Kramerguy Posted October 12, 2011 Members Share Posted October 12, 2011 what an odd topic lol I agree there's no sense in getting buried with it. I disagree with giving it to your daughter if she has no real interest in music / instruments. She most likely would never 'tell stories' to the grandkids while using the guitar as a show-and-tell prop, considering the other guitars and assets, I'd bet she might just closet them and eventually CL or yard-sale them (maybe years down the road), or even her kids grow up to inherit the instrument but not the sentimental values and sell or pawn them. IMO, you would do well to find a young player worthy of a gift upon your death.. I know it sounds a little crass toward the immediate family, but I find that my immediate family has no interest either, and I plan to be cremated.. so what to do? for now, I teach a 12 year old girl who has that same youthful lust to learn and grow on the instrument that I had at that age.. so she's the front runner. Not all assets are required to go to immediate family, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members FitchFY Posted October 12, 2011 Members Share Posted October 12, 2011 Beats me, but I better have a pair of drum sticks with me when I get cremated! Or when my car blows up. Whatever happens first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Nobody Told Me Posted October 12, 2011 Members Share Posted October 12, 2011 It's pretty easy for any musician to understand the sentimental attachment to a favorite instrument, but it seems to me it would be a shame for that instrument to never get a chance to vibrate again. Btw, contrary to popular belief, burial vaults leak, and decomposing bodies outgass. Your LP would be a soggy, slimy mess in short order. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted October 12, 2011 Moderators Share Posted October 12, 2011 ...burial vaults leak, and decomposing bodies outgass. Your LP would be a soggy, slimy mess in short order. That is so rock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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