Iām German, as you probably know, and this expression is symbolically, havenāt found an English equivalent 
. Itās about the telling, that one can do only one thing at a time sucessfully. (I donāt think so)
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Hi Josh,
Just thought Iād throw my two pennāorth in
Iāve also got all three guitars, acoustic (my first baby), electric and classical (a Kremona - they are fabulous guitars). They are all out in my guitar corner in the lounge and I play them all. I have practise schedules for each one (although I donāt always stick to it. Sometimes I just play what I want or I have a jolly good sing song! 
). Some days I play them all, some days just one and some days two and some days I donāt play any. I always say my favourite is the one I am playing at any one time. Sometimes I get really into something and I will play one guitar for days. At the moment Iāve really got into some electric lead guitar stuff so Iāve been working on that for about 4 days now although this afternoon I picked up the classical for a bit. I just go with how I feel. I know Iām making progress but Iāve learnt to focus on the journey and enjoy that rather than on the end goals. Iād say donāt sell the classical unless you really have to. You never know what will grab you in the future. I started on acoustic in about 2008 and never thought Iād get into classical or electric! But I did. And I love them.
@Helen0609 You are a legend. Brilliant German sayings! Love them! " ā¦unlimited possibilities of playing guitarā¦indeed!" 
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I can relate. I did a fingerstyle trip with my acoustic a few months ago. Then, my interest suddenly shifted to learning rock songs with my electric. Both destinations are fun and enjoyable. And next year, Iāll probably want to switch things up again. To make progress, we need to make things fun too.
A few reasons to hang onto guitars that you are not playing muchā¦
- if you play some songs in alternate tunings, you can keep one guitar in that tuning
- you can experiment with other styles that require very different setups. For example, I dabbled with slide guitar on my acoustic many years ago, and put a ānut lifterā on it to drastically raise the action
- some people are interested in learning to maintain or modify their guitars, and having an old beater guitar to experiment on helps with that
There are probably others that I havenāt thought ofā¦
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To have one in different tuningā¦ that is a underestimated reason. Its a pain to tune down to drop D and back againā¦ that alone is a reasonā¦
I used to think this, too, but Iāve started working on a song in drop D and I can make the change now in like 15 seconds. Itās easier than I thought!
I donāt mind drop Dā¦
ā¦but open C, or some weird Soundgarden tuning? Much more likely to practice the song if you can just pick up the guitar, tweak it, and play.
Its more like 15 min when im doing it 
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I canāt do it that fast either.
Though, I noticed that it takes me longer to move from E standard tuning to D Standard tuning with my Fender Stratocaster than my other guitar. I wonder if the floating bridge design of the stratocaster has an impact on detuning.
I just pluck the D string and loosen the E string until my ear tells me itās an octave below the D string - takes a few seconds, as jwt says.
What are you doing?
Tuning down the E strings to D. Then that is done. The D and G string is out of tune. Its not that much to it. But i need to tune D and G as well when i drop down
My neck is not to happy with that tuning for some reasonā¦
Same goes for my strat toā¦ not to happy with drop D
Switching between tunings often may not be an issue for you, but the strings may not like it very much 
@tRONd When you change the tuning of a string (sharp or flat), it inevitably has an effect on neck relief and that can affect the other strings as well. If thereās a big difference to the starting point (e.g. tuning all strings down a tone), then you may need to adjust the truss rod and the action, too. When I take my guitars for a setup, the luthier always asks me what tuning Iād like, so the setup is done for that specific tuning.
Got it - puts the other strings out of tune.
I guess Iāve been lucky -none of the guitars Iāve owned over the years have done this.
Another GAS rationalization- need a guitar for each tuning!
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@Jozsef i had actually booked an set up for it. Got a 3 year old guitar couple of weeks ago. I felt that the action had to be lowered. But i swapped out strings on the guitar. It had never changed strings before on it. They were more or less Ā«deadĀ»
After new strings, the action was a lot better. So i decided to cancel the set up for now. But yes. You are probably right, it should have a proper set up and adjustment. But for now its a nice and comfy neck to play.
You heard of that before? Change strings helps with the action?
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Different gauges of strings have an effect on the neck, heavier strings need more tension to tune them to pitch so it has an extra āpullā on the neck so will usually make the action higher. And vice versa for lighter strings 
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Hmm. I am pretty sure i replaced them with same size stringsā¦ Mediums.
It can effect it but maybe the new strings being fresh just gave the feeling of playing better/easier
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Yep. That is absolutly a possibility
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Not all strings of the same gauge have the same tension.
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Hi Joshua, to provide my point of view about your minor existential crisis I would like to separate the guitar playing from the guitar owning.
I do not see harm in shifting focus from one set of guitar skills to another as far as you can keep developing at least one of them. If you were developing a set of skills following Justin Guitar lessons and your interest shifted to classical music, and you worked diligently with the classical exercises, and now your interest is moving back to Justin Guitar lessons you have probably won more than lost. I think you havenāt lost anything in the process, not even time. Most likely you can take now on the Justin Guitar lessons with renewed excitement and ears and later go back to the classical exercises the same way.
In my case working on several aspects, I call them guitar projects, while keeping a regular practice of some JG Beginner Course [Classic] Stage 9 exercises helps me both with skill development and motivation. I donāt feel stuck because Iāve been doing Stage 9 for a year now. At some point those exercises will sink in and I can move on. With the modules Justin does not ask you to work on a single exercise at the time but gives you several skills and exercises to work on for a period of time until you have reached the skill level recommended for each one. For absolute beginners focusing on a narrow set of skills can work the best but for more advanced players more could be put into the mix and still be productive (depending of how productive is measured).
I donāt think that owning a guitar but not using it during a certain period of time automatically means than a guitar player should get rid of it. I would see it as an option when someone have two similar guitars and he or she have space constraints or need to fund guitar or gear acquisition or it could be more useful to someone else. I have one electric and one acoustic. The acoustic is the one that is getting the more play time mostly because is the one than takes less time to have it ready for playing, but also is because it fits better the songs or pieces Iāve been working on. Still is good to have the electric around when I have time and Iām the mood to play something different or the same with other sound. In your case if you want or need to keep only one of the classical guitars you could go analytical or just by instinct. Alternating between both guitars which is the one at hand, as someone suggested above, sounds a good idea. You may end keeping both.