Ed Sheeran once gave Myles Smith a guitar – here’s the bizarre item he got in return
How many guitarists get to say they’ve been personally gifted an instrument by one of the world’s most renowned artists? British singer-songwriter Myles Smith can count himself among this probably-very-tiny group, as one of his most treasured guitars, a Lowden S34C+ made its way into his collection as a gift from none other than Ed Sheeran.
Smith received the gift after attending a football match with Sheeran to watch their respective clubs, Arsenal and Ipswich Town, go head to head. “He invited me down to the game, and we won, of course,” he tells Guitar.com in the latest episode of My Guitars & Me.
“We became friends really quickly. “We had a lot in common, and so not long after meeting him, I went to his house, gave him a pair of custom trainers, and in return he gave me a guitar worth far more than a pair of custom trainers!”
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Describing the guitar as the “first reason I fell in love with Lowden”, Smith goes on to explain why it’s such an important part of his studio and stage arsenal (no pun intended).
“For me this guitar plays a big part of both my recording and live,” he says. “Mainly live, because the guitar is lightweight, it’s got the resonance and the body that makes running around on stage a lot of fun. It just suits how I play.”
He goes on: “I think, for me, the reason why this guitar stood out [compared] to other guitars is just the way that it reacts to your playing. It could be really intimate and really loud all at the sound time. And you don’t often find that with guitars… It’s the perfect fun instrument. You can’t go wrong with it. You can’t overplay it and you can’t underplay it. And it just carries itself so well.
“For me, with the low action of the guitar and its playability, it’s just really fun, and it makes the guitar something that you don’t have to think about when you’re trying to play to thousands of people.”
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