Mission accomplished......
Went early to the storage unit to excavate the classical guitar out. Storage units are strange things....you wouldn't believe the amount of dust & dirt that gets inside- not at the floor level where one would expect-but deep inside & as high as the tallest stack of boxes. Like a whirlwind comes in & just blows the stuff everywhere. It's a lot like exploring a tomb-we go once a year,maybe,look at all the forgotten stuff and talk about how we need to empty the thing out-it's costing big bucks annually to keep items that both my father & I have forgotten that we even have,for the most part. I see books thru plastic storage containers that have served their purpose but are no longer needed. I'll need to get them another time & auction them off.
In a sense I realise it's slightly depressing for me to go there-it was rented after I returned home in haste after mom passed & I found myself suddenly without a place to call home. It was my Dad who came to my rescue and took me in.
Julia Cameron once wrote about how some unseen Deity of creativity looks after ones' abandoned instruments or other tools of creating until the creative returns to them. I think she's right. I wondered what shape the guitar was in after 5 years or more of being shut up in a case. Would there be cracks? Would the neck be warped? Loose bracings? I needn't have worried. Aside from the fretboard needing a healthy dose of "Lizard Spit" (a moisturizer/conditioner) it's in perfect shape. So for now I'm letting it soak up the conditioner,and waiting for the strings to arrive in the mail. I'll need to make room for the family member come home. amazing how ones memory fades-I can't recall the name of the music store where I picked it up at-I do recall it was a sale after the Northridge quake-every music store in the Valley was having one- it's amazing how a light scuff or scrape can discount an otherwise new instrument. What I paid for it I can't recall either. I think it was 1/2 off or something. An Oscar Schmidt/Washburn model.