: Does dust hurt acoustic guitar? I usually play guitar regularly, and I always put it on its stand but sometimes due to college work I can't play for a few weeks in between. And what happens is a layer of dust accumulates

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No - a bit of dust is not one of the things that will damage the guitar or affect the sound. Even if you left it sitting in a dusty house for years, and built up a thick layer of dust, I'd still be more concerned about humidity changes, temperatures, sunlight as @Tim mentioned etc.

Most of my guitars are not in cases (I do not have enough room to store them all in cases, so they are all on stands or hanging on walls) and all I do is brush off the dust if I come to play one I haven't picked up for a few weeks.