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I'm Jeff Parrott. What matters most? The instrument or the musician who plays it? I have a vivid memory of being confronted with that very question as a teenager perusing the walls of a guitar store in Kansas

City. I was totally stunned by the different options of guitars on the wall. All of the distinct

designs, colors, and sounds, it was so much to take in. The only thing as overwhelming as the

array of choices was the astounding cost of the guitars

that looked and sounded the best to me. The sticker shock was a major red light that I could

not turn green with the modest adolescent income I had. I must have worn a depressed expression

on my face because the guitar store employee approached me with a

message I'll never forget. He said, you know, you could take that expensive guitar up there and give

it to a new and clumsy musician and it would sound like a new and clumsy musician. But at the same time,

you could take that cheap entry-level guitar over there, and if it was in the hands of a

legend like Eric Clapton, it would sound exactly like Eric Clapton. The message was clear.

Every instrument has a distinct sound, but the thing that matters most is who's holding the

instrument.

Now, that observation seems so obvious, but to a teenager obsessed with becoming as good as possible,

as quickly as possible, it landed in my psyche like a front page story in the newspaper.

Not only did that guitar store employee save me a lot of money that day, He saved me the heartache of imagining that the instrument can control the music more than the musician who holds it. Of course,

the instrument matters. Every guitar, every instrument carries its own distinct and significant sound,

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