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Guitar hanging location

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lincolnbluelincolnblue Frets: 263
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I have just had an extension built with two big velux windows, a big window on one end and one side has patio doors with narrow windows either side. It is a south-facing room so gets plenty of sunshine in the daytime.

I would like to hang a guitar in there but the only place would be on the wall opposite the patio doors and velux windows. Is is a bad idea to have a guitar hanging in direct line of the windows? 
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  • RandallFlaggRandallFlagg Frets: 13679
    edited November 2020
    I would say yes, not a good idea to have direct sun shining on a guitar, especially an acoustic. We're south facing and on a sunny day the heat through the windows can be fierce. I wouldn't want to put an acoustic guitar in line of that.


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  • ToneControlToneControl Frets: 11438
    the sun hits different walls through the year
    you need to avoid sun hitting the guitar
    also not above a radiator, or near an often-open window
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  • lincolnbluelincolnblue Frets: 263
    Thanks - I thought as much but reassured to hear it too. Shame as I would have wanted to have a guitar in there. I could have one on a stand in a corner but with young children it's not such a good idea!
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  • TheBigDipperTheBigDipper Frets: 4501
    It's pretty much how I bellied the top of a L'Arrivee in 2012 - three months in a sunny room on a stand in direct sunlight for a few hours a day. It still hasn't settled down, but I have the bridge lowered so it plays well enough, just no longer sings or projects as well as it used to. 

    Don't do it! 
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  • MudcrutchMudcrutch Frets: 323
    My main audio listening room is south facing with wall to wall large patio doors.
    It can get so hot in summer I don’t use it even with black Venetian blinds and black voils to keep the sun out.
    I wouldn’t hang any of my guitars in there because of temperatures and light.
    I do have a couple in rotation on floor stands out of the light but never the summer.
    Its one of the reasons I’ve built a studio in another room that’s north facing to keep my guitars in.

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  • ToneControlToneControl Frets: 11438
    Mudcrutch said:
    My main audio listening room is south facing with wall to wall large patio doors.
    It can get so hot in summer I don’t use it even with black Venetian blinds and black voils to keep the sun out.
    I wouldn’t hang any of my guitars in there because of temperatures and light.
    I do have a couple in rotation on floor stands out of the light but never the summer.
    Its one of the reasons I’ve built a studio in another room that’s north facing to keep my guitars in.

    you need to shelter the windows with screens or a canopy
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