John_Reality said:
My two cents are that seperating instruments that look almost completely identical is a little silly, I think instead of having it be a case of being stuck between psychederhythm_psychomaster or fender_jazzmaster we should instead split things into company tags for when it can be uniquely identified plus a tag for the general model of the guitar so I would have:
- A Psychederrhytem tag for the company to be applied to their jazzmaster (and any other guitars they make should that become relevant).
- Renaming the Fender Jazzmaster to simply Jazzmaster, and the same for any other model names (like the Fender Stratocaster and Fender Telecaster etc)
This would let people searching for Jazzmasters see posts with the Psychederhythm Psychomaster while retaining the ability to exclusively search for those alone with a search like jazzmaster + psychederrhytem.
It would also solve the awkwardness in tagging posts like post #6665770 (Tagged gibson_flying_v) with that has the shape of a Flying V but can you really be sure it's a Gibson or a Jackson or any other generally V shaped guitar?
I quite like the sound of that, although I'm not knowledgeable enough to know how exactly to go about implementing it. My main concern with the proposted "it's all a Jazzmaster" approach it's just throwing away information, and probably prone to making the tag bloated as well. Being able to find a model and it's clones/variations sounds good though.