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Gitarristen, Gitarrenbauer, Verstärkerhersteller, alles was in der Archtop-Szene Rang und Namen hat, ist dem Ruf von Peter Henriksen gefolgt: Bruce Forman, Frank Vignola, Jimmy Bruno, Rodney Jones, Jocelyn Gould, Beth Marlis, Ted Ludwig, you name them …

Die Gitarrenausstellung bot 27 Hersteller auf, darunter Zimnicky Guitars, Megan Wells, Benedetto, Sadowsky, und natürlich meine Wenigkeit.

In most circumstances, direct causality seems the obvious interpretative lens for the past and predictive lens for the future. We are most comfortable when we can draw clear circles around causes and thick lines between them and their consequences. We admire the “chess players” of society who can draw long chains of clear circles and thick lines; for most of us, the ability to mentally calculate chains of cause and effect is limited to only a few steps.

But certain systems involve a longer chain of lesser causes and effects that makes a focus on the individual steps unhelpful. Things like evolution, national economics, global warming, and terrorist motivations all need a systemic view to be properly understood. A focus on what the individual can prove themselves directly in these cases may well lead to bad choices. These systems are especially difficult for people with “just do it” attitudes, who find it hard to take “on faith” that they should act in a contrarian way because of a more extensive system that cannot be seen and computed in its entirety.