Well, people in the Eugene, Springfield area were not left out of the musically talented. Many people are apparently gifted when it comes to playing music on a guitar. It is inspiring to hear and see so many folks drifting in from the Art Walk, picking up a guitar and playing what in many cases was jaw dropping virtuosity. That kind of Thing is a damn good way to showcase my guitars as these not so rare folks make the instruments sound really good. On an entirely different subject, its so easy to type on a word processing machine, as mistakes are made to disappear by the touch of a back button. Remember the typewriters of old that had a white ribbon as well as black, so when one made a mistake, you could backspace to the offending letter, type over it with the white ribbon, and then proceed as though nothing bad had happened at all? TECHNOLOGY is both good and bad. Some guitar manufacturers pride themselves in the fact that their instruments are hardly touched by human hands during the whole building process. Is that truly good? Not for me. I actually like working wood and pearl with my HAND tools. The touch and feel of turning a few pieces of material into a thing capable of producing cool tones and visual gorgeousness is for me the way.