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The Guitar Hanger
If you are a guitar enthusiast, you may be interested in the extremely functional, uncluttered, and organized storage solution known as The Guitar Hanger:
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I would only consider these if you regularly play your guitar. A case is the best storage option if you only play your guitar every once in awhile and prefer a long-term storage solution. For our household, though, these would be perfect for freeing up some floor space.
(Images from The Guitar Hanger website.)
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24 comments posted
Posted by Neal - 03/09/2010
This seems like a good idea but could be a disaster if you don’t humidify your entire house, or at least the room where your guitars (or other wooden instruments) are.
Leaving instruments out in a heated house leaves them vulnerable to damage from drying out- all wooden instruments need some humidity during the winter and that’s best achieved by leaving them in their cases with a humidifying device, unless you humidify the entire room or house.
Don’t take my word for it. Google it or check out the Taylor guitars (I have no connection to them) website for just one example of a major manufacturer warning guitar owners about this:
http://www.taylorguitars.com/g.....idity.aspx
Posted by JC - 03/09/2010
I have a friend who owns/plays many guitars. They are hung on one wall in the music area as storage/decor. I think the coolest thing they did was reuse an old wooden sideboard with wine bottle cubbies for the equipment. The foot peddle thingies are all nice and neat inside the cubbies. (Yes, my jargon leaves much to be desired.)
Posted by Tammy - 03/09/2010
I wonder if these would work for our guitar hero guitars? I have been trying to find a way to get them out of my living room.
Posted by Sarah - 03/09/2010
The first thing I did when I moved in with my husband was hang his stringed instruments (banjo, mandolin, and a Croatian folk instrument) on the wall for display. (Prior to that they lived on the floor. Like everything else…)
Posted by hair bow girl - 03/09/2010
Nice! We have rock band guitars. Do those count?
Posted by Mike - 03/09/2010
Definitely do this for your plastic video game guitars. There is no worry about the neck warping and the guitar losing intonation.
Keep guitars in their cases. Rack them when it’s time for practice or performance. Guitar Center hangs their inventory on such hooks, but they also have very particular climate control in their store, and a separate room for wooden Dreadnought-class acoustics that need finer humidity control.
Posted by Simone - 03/09/2010
Heh, yep, they do hold Rock Band guitars! They’ve got pics at the site. Another reason I need to get an Xbox and Rock Band for myself…
Posted by Louise - 03/09/2010
I wish this would work for me, but since we live full-time in our motorhome, the walls obviously move. I’ve had to jury-rig a way to hold my guitar and ukulele to keep them safe and displayed.
The safest storage, obviously, is in the case, but I have found that I play the instruments much less often if they are put away. To me, a guitar in a safe case, but not played, is clutter. Better to be out and mildly at risk of damage.
@Neal: You’re correct that changes in humidity are hard on the instruments, and inside a vehicle that travels across time zones and climates regularly is particularly bad. However, having no guitar or one that is so carefully stored that it isn’t used is worse. Musical instruments live when they are played. Saving them to keep them pristine can defeat their entire purpose!
Posted by themusiclivez - 03/09/2010
That seems really cool! Right now my guitar is in its case leaning against a piece of furniture in my bedroom. I’d prefer to have it hanging in the closet so I don’t have to open the case everytime I want to play.
Posted by C Bennett - 03/09/2010
You can use a Damp-It to protect your instrument while it is out in the environment. Violinists and other strings players use them all the time. (BTW, I am a public-school music teacher with a room of 12 guitars I keep for my classes).
With this set-up, I can see someone jostling one of the guitars and the whole thing turning into a pendulum of destruction. If you can drill into your walls, much better to hang them all on neck-holders on the wall where they can’t crash together if jostled. That way they’re out and about, and with some Damp-Its you can minimize risk of climate damage, too.
I have a floor stand for my ‘cello, and my dog recently knocked it over and snapped the neck!! Any good ideas for cello storage?
Posted by Robin J - 03/09/2010
Brilliant idea. I’ve tried to get my husband to warm up to this idea or to hanging guitars on the wall. But they are his babies, and we live in earthquake territory, so they stay in their cases, leaning against the computer desk. Oh, well.
Posted by Cathy - 03/09/2010
Ooh, my brother needs one of these! I recently helped him go through his room, and his poor guitars were crammed into every corner. He uses them all, but he’s forever having to dig for them.
Posted by Mark - 03/09/2010
Yikes. I keep my acoustic in it’s hard shell case all the time, but I’ve never given second thought to leaving my electrics out (and right next to the baseboard at that). :-/ How does one keep an electric guitar properly humidified?
Posted by Kimberly - 03/09/2010
We currently have our guitars on regular stage stands, resting on the floor, similar to this one:
http://accessories.musiciansfr.....=211052238
I would like to eventually hang them on wall hangers, anchored to the wall, similar to how they are in music stores. I have found, like other commenters, that if the guitars are “properly” stowed away in their cases, I don’t play them as often. I agree with Louise that if an instrument is not played, it’s clutter. To each their own, but I don’t understand people who collect high-end guitars, hang them on their walls, and then never play them. To me, it’s like having a garage full of classic cars that hardly ever see the light of day–beautiful, yes, but not really fulfilling the purpose for which they were created. I’d rather own a guitar for the sound it can produce more than how it looks. I have one classical, one acoustic, and one electric, and for right now, that’s enough. I dream of owning a nice Martin for recording and playing live, but for now my low-end guitars will have to do. They’re perfect for impromptu jam sessions, general practicing, and writing new material. But if I did own a nice Martin, I would definitely do my best to preserve its tone by keeping it in the case, and only getting it out to record or perform.
Posted by julia - 03/09/2010
Hmmm…can you say Unitasker?
Admittedly, probably a good one – but a unitasker nevertheless…
Posted by Neal - 03/09/2010
Hi again. Listen folks, I’m not kidding here, I just about ruined a nice Gibson acoustic by not humidifying it. I’m not talking about keeping guitars pristine, I’m talking about not damaging them, which is entirely different. It’s basic science: wood absorbs moisture. Wood shrinks when it’s dry. The wood top, sides and back of a decent guitar are glued on the edges and if the top or back shrinks due to dryness it can crack, since the glued edges leave no room for shrinkage to happen.
I love my guitars (and mandolins) with lots of wear and tear from playing them- I’m not a collector.
Don’t believe me. Just google “guitar” and “humidification” or a similar set of terms.
Posted by Noelle - 03/10/2010
I’m not a guitar owner and can’t speak to the humidity issue, but I did enjoy the video and the enthusiasm of the announcer. :~)
Posted by Michael Moncur - 03/11/2010
I have one of these and it works as advertised.
I just tried a Rock Band guitar on it and it works fine – probably a great way to organize video game guitars.
As for humidity, it’s not as cut-and-dry as Neal makes it sound. Solid-body guitars have almost no need for humidity – I can tell a slight difference on mine in the winter, but no permanent damage. And I’m in Utah where the winters and summers are brutal.
The only guitar I worry about humidifying is my nice solid-top acoustic. I keep the electrics out on hangers, and I even keep my nylon-string acoustic out on a stand. They would last a bit longer if they were in cases with humidifiers, but I’m far more concerned with making sure I play guitar every day.
Incidentally, if you have a closet handy, these hangers would be a great way to make sure you DO humidify the guitars – put a humidifier in the closet. The guitars are still a bit easier to grab and play than if they were in cases.
Posted by Tom MacWright - 03/11/2010
A Hercules hanger is really the place to go if you want to hang your guitars. I’m notoriously paranoid but have always felt comfortable with hanging my nice acoustic on it. However, hangers really *aren’t* the way to do this. Humidity kills guitars, and cracked mine. What we really need (and nobody seems to make) is a case that’s designed to be opened…
Hmm. Ideas.
Posted by Jon - 03/12/2010
This is a very cool idea. I only play electrics so humidity isn’t as big of a deal. Great idea to keep them organized looking but available for a quick rock out.
Posted by Jen - 03/15/2010
Not sure I see how this saves on space even if you play regularly, unless you have more guitars than cases. My husband plays his bass very regularly, but it still gets dusty if stored out… even if you’re playing every day, there are parts that will collect dust. Neat idea, but we’ll stick to the storage cases.
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Posted by Leszek Cyfer - 04/07/2010
Reading through the comments the neat solution would be a wall hanging solution for a guitar case – one that would allow for easy case opening while still hanging, to remove the guitar would be very welcome indeed
Posted by Nat - 06/08/2010
Great idea, I might have to get a few of these for my darling husband, because the system he has now collects dust bunnies, and the vacuum can’t get under it…
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