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Lowden O25 - a beautiful handmade acoustic, full-bodied, cedar-topped, rosewood back and sides, 5-piece neck and Abalone Pearl inlays, with gold fittings. A physical embodiment of Guitar Zen, if ever there was one, or one needed proof that it existed!
So, why Guitar Zen? The obvious zen answer is why not?
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1964 Gibson ES330TD - red-bodied and hand-carved with chrome pick-ups, handcut pearl inlays and white body binding.
Guitar Zen is more than the mere playing and possessing of the guitar. It is the moment when one becomes at one with Nature, embodied in the beauty of the sounds that emanate from the instrument. One achieves, in one's playing, the position of Mushin - or no-thought where one's responses to the Muse is to create one's music instinctively without the need for the thought process to encumber the smoothness of the oneness of oneself and one's instrument.
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Gibson Les Paul Classic Plus - a 1994 re-issue of the 1960 Les Paul Standard.
To be able to feel this state of Mushin is to be truly blessed because it enables one to become the Muse, and to live the creative process without inhibition. One is free to express and feel.
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1972 Fender Telecaster - canary yellow body (the scratch plate should be white).
Zen is the catalyst to the achievement of fulfilment, and Mushin is the avenue along which we may travel, if we are truly fortunate to have attained the highest pronouncement of our creative art.
Ergo - Guitar Zen!
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