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A murder of crows, a flock of sheep, a cuddle of poodles, a thicket of idiots.... A [what] of guitars?

How can it be possible that there's no collective noun for a bunch of guitars? The link below lists collective nouns for all manner if things. ... But zilch for guitars. Trumpets have one; a flourish of trumpets. Tubas have one; a tumult of tubs.Why not guitars?

Outrageous! We must remedy this. So bring them on.


What do you think a group of guitars should be called? Put your thinking caps on!

Besides 'mine, all mine, oh my lovely preciousesssseses' .


https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Append ... by_subject

Wiley - you'll be very happy to know that a group of poker players is called a 'stud'. Hilarious, a stud of poker players. Sounds like wishful thinking to me.

Perhaps we need a 'very important question of the day' section on the new forum.

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A band of guitars?

Ahhh yes, the conventional band. But... Surely we can come up with something a bit more exciting.

Like a thunder of basses (I don't know if basses have a collective noun).

Or a Thrash of guitars, or a ....

A tree-full of guitars

A pluckfest of guitars....

'Pluckfest' nice one

A tree-full. I see where you're going with that Willem. How many guitars fit in a tree?



How about a hayseed of banjos.

A strum of ukuleles. Hmmm ... Too boring.

A twang of guitars.

dennisg wrote:

A twang of guitars.

Inspired! I love it.

A gas of guitars

A 'gas' excellent! A few of us defintiely have a gas of guitars.

Going with the axe theme, how about a 'hack of guitars' or 'thwack of guitars' ?