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Worth noting that just because I have one doesn't mean I can play it very well. Working on it!
Crestwood ST920 electric guitar
Bought: I want to say late 90s or early 2000s, given what little I've found online.
Specs:
- Color: Transparent blue (sparkly!)
- Frets: 22
- Scale length: 25.5"
- Body materials: Wood
How it came into my possession: I got it in late 2019 as a gift from a former friend since I was interested in learning guitar. It was her older brother's; he left it at their house when he moved out.
Condition/defects: This boy came from the same house as the eMachines Box, and unlike that, I've never cleaned it or even bothered to restring it. It might have dead frets, I might just suck at playing it. It really needs a setup, but it's a cheap Strat clone and might not deserve that. I haven't bothered to practice with it in some time.
Fender Squier PJ Bass and Rumble 40 amp
Bought: November 2025.
Specs:
- Color: Lake Placid Blue (pretty!)
- Frets: 20
- Scale length: 34"
- Body materials: Poplar for the body, Indian laurel for the fretboard
How it came into my possession: Man, I have wanted a bass for forever. The thing I always pay attention to when I listen to music is the rhythm section, weird sounding drums, and basslines. I figured the time was right, having paid off my student loans and Christmas coming up, and you can't just get an electric bass without an amp, so I grabbed a nice, new Rumble 40 (the cheapest still-good practice amp you can get new, or so people have told me) to go with it.
Condition/defects: None! It's still basically like new. I unfortunately had to put it aside while I finished up some marfGH custom disc stuff, which I know sounds funny, trading the real thing for a plastic controller version, but still. I will learn and play this thing, I swear.
KORG Volca Bass
Bought: Christmas 2023 along with the Volca Beats.
How it came into my possession: Christmas gift. No big story here, just a thing I wanted and got.
Condition/defects: I admittedly have much less luck programming the Volca Bass than I do the Beats, but it puts out some cool sounds, and I'd certainly like to play with it more.
KORG Volca Beats
Bought: Christmas 2023 along with the Volca Bass.
How it came into my possession: Christmas gift. No big story here, just a thing I wanted and got.
Condition/defects: This is the Volca I'm much more attached to. It is so effortless for me to just pick it up and start dinking around with it, honestly without a musical aim in sight. That's why I love it so much. I've used it as a metronome while practicing bass, I've put some (unreleased) songs to it, and it's even gotten me out of bed a few times. I just learned about the Active Step function so you can get it to play in 3/4 (or 6/8 or 7/8, depending how you count it). Sickest shit ever.
Yamaha PSR-E243
Bought: 2014 as a Christmas gift to my sister.
Specs:
- Keys: 61
- Voices: 385 (including gunshots)
How it came into my possession: Another thing of my little sister's that she never used and I pilfered. My equivalent gift that year was a MIDI drumkit I used to play way too much Phase Shift until it broke roughly twenty minutes after FCing "Beethoven's Cunt". This one's survived, though, thanks to the lack of need to hit it with sticks.
Condition/defects: Nope, complete and in good shape! The original sustain pedal is long gone, sadly. I used a Rock Band drum pedal as one for a bit, ironically, until I snapped that too. Now mine for occasional musical use. I think I last made use of it, again with Phase Shift, to play some Pro Keys charts from Rock Band 3, but that was fairly short-lived. I took a tiny bit of piano in high school, and yet I never got much further than Medium, and only Easy for some songs.
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