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Dear Guitarist, many thanks for your excellent piece on the 50th anniversary of The Dark Side of the Moon – where did all that time go? – it was a worthy tribute indeed. However, reading about the numerous modifications to Gilmour’s famous black Strat brought a smile to my face, and as an ex-philosophy teacher I was reminded of ‘The Ship of Theseus’ – a thought-experiment about whether an object that has had its original components replaced remains the same object. And I wonder whether Mod Man Marten has a view on the matter? Keep up the great work!
David Hughes
Thanks, David – we’ve consulted widely among the team – including our esteemed modding colleagues Dave Burrluck and Neville Marten – and we confess we’ve failed to identify a watertight definition of when a guitar has changed into another. But it feels safe to say if the body and the neck have been changed, a bit like an axe that has had a new haft and head, it is a different guitar. But maybe, more philosophically, it’s really all in the fingers and thus, like
