Alric chuckles at the observation, considering Yuui's question for a moment.

"Ah... well, I'm not so sure the two are entirely separate. I certainly saw my music tutors less over the years, although that, I suppose, was due as much to a greater need to focus on other studies as it was to my own greater musical independence."

He smiled to himself, glancing aside and tilting his head a little.

"But yes, there are those who wound find the guitar... gaudy, perhaps, in a word. Showy, yet common. The sort of people who consider 'common' something at which they ought to turn up their noses."