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Don Firth Ever heard of this guitar (103* d) RE: Ever heard of this guitar 18 Aug 15

Back in the 1950s, a big music store here in Seattle started importing Goya classics. I checked out a lot of models and lusted after one. Nice instruments!

Then a friend of mine in the Seattle Classic Guitar Society, who made yearly trips to Spain, set me up with a young luthier in Madrid (Arcangel Fernandez) who made me a flamenco guitar. Outrageously good instrument. $120 at the time—now been appraised at $18,000!! But I wouldn't part with it!

So I let the Goyas go. But they were very nice instruments, and I had a couple of students who had them.

Nancy Quensé, a long-time friend, walked into one of Seattle's coffeehouses in 1960 with a Goya G-20 classic and she's still using it. Still singing folk songs, and also sings in the Medieval Women's Choir.

Nice, well made instrument and Nancy seems pretty contented with it.

Don Firth

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