allright then...first of all thank you David.  And every other guitar player here for giving me advice.  It's why I asked.  I have to be honest though, when he died, I was very young (5 or 6?) and the guitar was way too big for me then.  I didn't give it much thought until I was in my 20's and even then I just kind of revered it because it was his and I didn't want to damage the only thing I had from him.  So I never touched it and treated it like some piece of art.  But it's not.  In fact it's actually kinda cheap looking.  I think it's an FG-180?  does that sound right?  He had a house full of instruments though and he left something for everyone.  That's just what I got.  And I don't fault him for that choice.  He didn't really know me.

But now that I'm getting kinda long in the tooth I think I ought to at least spend some of my time trying to know what he knew.  And maybe that will give me a connection of some sort to my past.   I wonder why I didn't start so much earlier though?

I will say that I can play a harmonica by ear pretty well (Neil Young's Harvest album got me money's worth) but I can't read music for shit.  I guess maybe it's time for me to learn though, if for nobody else but myself.