Following musicians on the bond with their instruments, here are some stories from readers on their own relationships
Pearl, my Epiphone FT- 150 jumbo steel string guitar is what I’d rescue first from a fire. She’s the only instrument, among dozens, that’s allowed to live outside a case between sessions. I fell in love with her at first sight. I took my entire building society account, (in which Saturday job savings had carefully been stowed) and sold a classical guitar cheap to amass the sum of £43 for her. She had neither strings nor case, and I carried her home wrapped in brown paper and string – walking, as I had no bus fare. I was 14. Freespeechoneeach