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Right then - how DO you get a plectrum out from inside an acoustic?

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DiscoStuDiscoStu Frets: 5261
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I've had a plectrum rattling around inside my acoustic for weeks and no amount of shaking will get it to fall out!

Let's have your tried and tested methods.
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  • HeelHeel Frets: 270
    Flip. Hold up in the air. Look in soundhole. Jiggle guitar and watch for plectrum. 
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  • FuengiFuengi Frets: 2843
    Get it under the sound hole. Grab a pencil, push it into the hole and push down on the pick. Turn the guitar upside down. Release the pencil. Bingo! 
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  • Winny_PoohWinny_Pooh Frets: 7202
    I jiggle till it's under the soundhole and the guitar is flat. I then turn the guitar over and out it pops. 
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  • phil_bphil_b Frets: 2009

    cut a large square hole in the back and it will come out easily

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  • PhilW1PhilW1 Frets: 931
    Jigsaw.
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  • VimFuegoVimFuego Frets: 14862
    I believe the correct order is put a spider in there, then a bird to get the spider, and so on. 

    I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.

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  • merlinmerlin Frets: 6199
    edited September 2019
    Get a space craft. Fly into space. Nuke Earth and offending instrument. If you can't afford a space craft and nuke then the pencil trick is good. Attach a blob of blutack is a good option too. 
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  • prowlaprowla Frets: 4680
    Just get a plectrum magnet.
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  • munckeemunckee Frets: 11457
    Pencil with blue tack on the end. 
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  • HeelHeel Frets: 270
    munckee said:
    Pencil with blue tack on the end. 
    Clever. 
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  • KilgoreKilgore Frets: 8107
    The pick will have damaged the guitar beyond repair, buy a new and better guitar. 
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  • LestratcasterLestratcaster Frets: 1024
    Play fingerstyle.

    Haha.
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  • KilgoreKilgore Frets: 8107
    Fuengi said:
    Get it under the sound hole. Grab a pencil, push it into the hole and push down on the pick. Turn the guitar upside down. Release the pencil. Bingo! 
    This works well for picks but is a bit time consuming if your kid's dropped a handful of Lego inside. 
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  • JezWyndJezWynd Frets: 5837
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  • droflufdrofluf Frets: 3144
    Fill the guitar with water, hopefully the plectrum will float to the top and you’ll be able to reach it more easily. 

    This method is only effective for buoyant plectrums. 
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  • prowlaprowla Frets: 4680
    Use a vacuum cleaner.

    Either in suck mode or blow (don't forget to empty the bag first).
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  • Jez6345789Jez6345789 Frets: 1652
    Small children they say the wire hurts but it builds character I say
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  • FreebirdFreebird Frets: 5819
    Shake, rattle and roll.
    If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
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  • DiscoStuDiscoStu Frets: 5261
    Top ideas! It finally came out after shoogle #38 but the pencil/blu tack idea is sound and is noted for future lazy finger moments.
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  • merlinmerlin Frets: 6199
    edited September 2019
    Heel said:
    munckee said:
    Pencil with blue tack on the end. 
    Clever. 
    Hmmm. I'm going to sulk. I mentioned blu tack on a pencil two posts before munckee but I didn't get a WIS nor a "clever". Petulant and sitting in the corner face is now on.

      
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  • BodBod Frets: 1206
    edited September 2019
    I jiggle till it's under the soundhole and the guitar is flat. I then turn the guitar over and out it pops. 
    +1, but I jiggle the guitar.

    Trading Feedback thread - https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/59198/
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  • RolandRoland Frets: 8108
    More interestingly, how do you get a plectrum out of an F hole jazz box in the middle of a gig?Stick your fingers through the upper hole, hold the guitar top side down and shake to bring the plectrum to that side, then slowly rotate the guitar until the plectrum slides onto your fingers. Withdraw fingers, hold up plectrum, and smile at the audience. 
    Tree recycler, and guitarist with  https://www.undercoversband.com/.
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  • Caffeine_VampireCaffeine_Vampire Frets: 3475
    Use the force 
    'Vot eva happened to the Transylvanian Tvist?'
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  • tone1tone1 Frets: 4930
    edited September 2019
    I feel a Dragon’s Den idea forming.......I could invent the impossible.... or just use a pick larger than the sound hole, or have you considered finger style 
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  • VimFuegoVimFuego Frets: 14862
    people keep saying fingerstyle like it's a solution, but wait till you lose them inside a guitar!!!

    I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.

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  • LewyLewy Frets: 3795
    Leave it in there and tell people it's a rattle snake rattler given to you by a stranger at some sort of traffic intersection.
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