Just out of wild, screaming curiosity, did the classic Giannini's look anything like THIS?

Sometime in the Fifties, Walt Robertson had loaned his Martin 000-28 to some female and was having difficulty getting it back, his Carbone 12-string was back in Carbone's shop for repairs, and he found himself guitarless. A quick cruise of the pawn shops on Seattle's 1st Avenue turned up a neat little classic ($35.00 used). The label was partly obscured, but one could read that it was made in Sao Paolo, Brazil. Very nice guitar. Walt played it for several years, until one day he forgot to latch the case, it flopped open, and the guitar made its way down a flight of concrete steps. Kindling. We all mourned. Anyway, that's it, in the photo on Walt's album cover, taken a few months before disaster struck.

We never did know who had made the guitar. Several of us wanted to get hold of one like it.

Don Firth