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Guitars July 17, 2025

I’ve been going through a lot of photos lately and I have a lot (really, a LOT) of pictures of musical instruments in various setting, so today I present you with various corners of various homes I’ve lived in.

Here’s my studio when we just moved in. (Before I got the leopard print rug)

A room with a green linolium floor. On it are a glockenspiel, a black violin, a viola, a classical guitar in an open case, a red trunk with a piano accordion on top. I three guitar rack holding two black flying Vs and a purple BC Rich (rack covered in animal print guitar straps) and a multi guitar rack holding a mandola, an acoustic guitar, a red electric bass, a black classical guitar, and you can just make out the edge of a banjo.

The corner of my bedroom in one of our tiny Montreal apartments during a handful of years that we didn’t rent a jam space.

A brightly lit corner with a 3 guitar rack holding 3 black guitars. (a classical, a flying V, and a strat shaped body.) Next to it is a 5 guitar rack holding an oud, a red electic bass, a classical, a steel string, and a mandola.

A shot I’ve always loved from the apartment we lived in in St. John’s Newfoundland before moving to Montreal. The Seagull and the Strat belong to my husband. The headstock with the leaf is a guitar my friend Daunt Lee built for me (I’m holding it on the New Shoes album cover) my trusty Epiphone flying V is there, and my Yairi Gakki classical that you see on all my live streams (and the Bloom & Grow album cover)

A room with dark red walls and a wooden floor. Close up on the head stocks of 5 guitars. One has a gorgeous leaf inlay on the head stock.

Then of course, my octopus holding my Jackson V. A black leather couch with a large red plush octopus with its tentacles wrapped around a shiny black Jackson Flying V electric guitar. There is a much smaller purple plush octopus snuggling with the bigger one.

And my BC Rich which has the most wonderful backstory that I’ll tell you some day, but here it is when I used it for a fun photoshoot.

A purple BC Rich Bich electric guitar in an open case in a muddy industrial outdoor space. It's a very 80s looking pointy metal looking guitar. Kyla's black wedge boot clad feet are in the shot.

— Kyla
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