Dear Patients,

I am so sorry to have been out of the surgery for some days but you must doubtless know how it is when the needy call you.

Dear Irma N. Goring,

It sounds as though you have made a really exxcellent deal! I must warn you, however, that there are unscrupulous "back-alley" guitar dealers that sometimes prey on persons such as your goodself who have ungone traumatic and emotional experience. What these people do is glue parts of different guitars together (or weld them in the case of steel guitars) and then try to pass these "hybrids" off as the genuine article.

In my long practice I have already encountered:

Eko Warriors
Manzer Seagull
Blade Running Dog
Gallaher & Lyle
A Bourgeois Lark in The Morning
A Froggy-Bottomed Taylor

and more recently, a

Martin Gibson

So, while I congratulate you on your exchange, do check to ensure that you have been given the genuine article!

Yours most sincerely,

Dr. Guitar