As I’ve said elsewhere, although I’m not a professional musician, I nonetheless bought two of his guitars at the auction… and I don’t (yet) play the guitar. I just wanted to have something that once belonged to the man who, along with his Steely Dan partner Donald Fagen, pursued a singular quest for musical perfection that brought me and many others such joy and carried us in our 1970s journey from adolescence to adulthood and beyond. At the end of the day, I somehow wanted my purchase to honor him… to recognize his excellence and attention to detail… to use his love for the craft as inspiration to learn a new instrument… to feel his presence as I strum his guitars. While I suspect that most of the bidders, both online and in-person, were professional musicians, I’m sure that there were others out there like me… I think Walter would have wanted it that way.