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Post by JamesP on Apr 10, 2018 13:59:07 GMT -5
I remember the day my first guitar came. It was a beautiful Harmony archtop ordered from Sears Roebuck catalog. Back then we didn't have a guitar store in town so it was ordered sight unseen.
The postman left a card in the mailbox advising me to go to the Post office to pick up the parcel. Man, was I excited. A shiny, new guitar in a case with a guitar chord book.
I had a ukelele and knew a little about strings, frets, tuners, etc.
Still have it after 70 years.
What's your story?
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Post by jbone on Apr 11, 2018 18:29:06 GMT -5
I don't play but I did buy a guitar in the 80's because I wanted to try and learn. It was a Hofner from the 60's, similar in looks to what Willie has played for years. I had a roomie who was a guitarist then and he tried it out. It had issues. I took it to the premier guitar shop in Dallas, and was quoted 3 times what I'd paid for it to get it corrected. Bracing, neck work, new tuners. I kept it for a few years and then gave it away.
Jo took over the family guitar when she was a kid. Learned from a Joan Baez songbook, then left it alone for years, decades. In her 50's along came me and she got a new old guitar, a Fender Concord acoustic. Her first very own guitar.
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