One of the words I both love and hate: "luthier". Literally, someone who makes a lute; but in the centuries since its original usage, expanded to anyone who makes or repairs instruments with a neck and sound cavity. Lutes, of course, but also guitars, mandolins, ukuleles; violins, violas, basses, cellos...
I hate it because of the inaccuracy. And I love it because it's grown to become "yeah, a luthier _could_ work on these things". Squint and you can see the similarities between a violin and a guitar, though they are, for all practical purposes, wildly different instruments. They both have necks, but only one has frets; they both have strings, but only one is typically plucked. Then there's the body: sound hole vs f-holes, an open cavity vs soundposts. Fixed bridge vs adjustable. Every variable changing the soul of the instrument.
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I'm taking a couple weeks to spend time with friends and family. I'll be back in the new year. Reader, I hope you get a chance to take a break, whatever that looks like. I hope you can take some time for yourself, spend time with the people and things you love. To 2024; to continuing to make things. ♥