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Too many of us ‘listen’ with our eyes. We hear what we see. What, wonders Dave burrluck, would we do if we based our judgements solely on what we heard and what we felt with our hands?

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Recently, I was playing a gig and an old friend, who just so happens to be an excellent guitarist, was in the audience. I was playing a new Japanese made bolt-on with a pair of humbuckers and a clearly non-Fender shape. For the fourth number in the set, as planned, I switched to an original series Fender Road Worn ’60s Strat; halfway through I caught my friend’s eye and he was giving me a big thumbs-up. Chatting between sets he said that when I’d picked up the Strat it sounded really classic – just right. “What’s that other guitar you’re playing?” he then asked.

It made me wonder whether my friend was making his judgement on sound or looks. Possibly both. A non-classic looking guitar is never going to sound