I have a friend who has a house that I feel is second to none. He and his wife have not cut any corners when it comes to the finest decorations, they have the nicest furnishings, they also have the best taste in everything that they put into their home which makes it a lot of fun to see what they are up to on a regular basis. My wife and I always enjoy going to their house because we come back with some terrific ideas for what we might do with our house someday when the kids have moved out (which is still a long way away).

The last time we visited I went into his den and saw a new piece of furniture that I had not seen in a home before, any home. The beautiful handcrafted piece of furniture was a guitar display cabinet that allowed him to place up to 6 guitars in a cabinet. The cabinet had several advantages over a traditional music cabinet than keeping the guitars in their cases and extremely organized in the corner like he had them the last time I had visited his house. He said the advantage was that the guitar display cabinet was allowing the guitars to stay at a constant level of humidity (very cool) so the wood would actually last longer and the instruments would sound more like they had been initially built to sound rather than having a higher pitch as the wood dried. He went on to say that because the instrument display case was such a great addition to the room he found himself playing the guitar on a more regular basis. He even found himself playing his older guitars more regularly because they were much more accessible and he could put them back in the display case at a moment’s notice. He was very proud of his instrument display case.

That caused me to go look for other instrument display cases, in addition to the traditional sheet music cabinet that we see so often, that could be built for other instruments besides guitars. I have been able to find display cases for violins, trumpets, clarinets and many individual guitar display cases. As I researched the background of the cases I found that many individuals had purchased them from companies who make cases for museums and public displays. The items were cost prohibitive and always custom-made. There were no companies making them as products so that they could be produced as a product line and so that they could be made in a more affordable manner. As I made another round of phone calls I was able to find a few manufacturers who said they were interested in doing a line of products that could accommodate the part of the market who would want a high quality instrument display cabinet at an affordable price. All thanks to my friends who are trend-setters with their unique home furnishings. I have to have them over to our house next time.

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