Oh, oh, is it my turn?
I've got two guitars:
Ovation Celebrity that my dad got me on my sixteenth birthday. I wish it was one of the slim back designs because it's not the easiest thing to play standing up, but other than that, and the high action which is totally fixable but I'm lazy, I love it! It's about ten years old now, and it's served me well. I've done a few shows with it because my other guitar doesn't have a pickup...
Alvarez P90: Alvarez guitars have the most wonderfully warm, full sound. I sort of abused the hell out of mine because I like alternate tunings and was indiscriminate in my earlier experimentation. Now I keep her tuned down to a "standard" B, and took her to a luthier recently to have her set up properly for such a low tuning.
We also have a very, very old upright piano inherited from my husband's grandmother. Neither of us play yet, unless Chopsticks and a choppy version of Fir Elise count, but we're learning!
And the Piece de Resistance is my stand-up bass. Don't ask me what kind, 'cause I have no idea. I've been playing classically for about 15 years, but had to sell my first bass right after high school when I realized I didn't want to study music in college. I was working at a Sam Ash music store a few years ago, and everyone knew I was a bass player without an instrument. So one day, some idiot returned a perfectly good, brand spanking new stand up because the varnish was scratched on the backside. Instead of fixing it and reselling it as used, my managers concocted a silly sales floor competition that only I could win (literally, no one in that building had any chance of beating me!) and then when I inevitably won, they surprised me with the stand-up bass as the prize! Best management team ever, I tell you what.
Those are my babies. My husband is also an audio engineer, and we do a lot of recording around the house. We just moved into our first home, and he's even installing mic panels and running wires around the house to create a home studio. I'd give you more details, but I would just show my ignorance. I just plug and play, he does the technical stuff.
