The Martin tenor I believe is an OO-17, nickp...

I've owned n' played tenor geetars going back into the 60's... I've had the spectrum (rhymes with pletum...) of the little sumabichs...

Yeah, I've had the 00-17 Martin, I've had a 30's Gibson, Harmony arch tops, a Gibson archie but never had one as nice as the one I own now which is a mid 30"s Dobro built resonator tenor...

Now, with that said... A few years back I was in Fredricksburg, Va. at "Picker Supply" and Bran Dillard, the owner, who loves to tempt me brought out canvas bag and inside was a hardsheel case and inside it was a perfect 30's National S-type tricone tenor... I eman it was the purdiest geeter I ever saw and he let me play it there in the middle of his geetra shop... Lotta folks gathered 'round and wondered at the sound of this very unusal geeter... I was purdy amazed myself...

"Okay, Bran, how much", I asked...

"Thirt five hundred", he said...

Well $3500 is a bunch of money so I figured that it was way outta reach for this ol' hillbilly... Then later that night it started botherin' me and it bothered me fir the next couple weeks... I couldn't get that geeter outta my head...

So I go to the P-Vine and asks her if we could go get a loan fir it and she, like women will do when they know they got you made me promise to do this and that for the reat of our lives, which I gladly agreed to do so I called up Bran and he said...

..."Sorry, Bob, we sold it..."

Sniff...

Well, nevermind... I love my Dobro reso tenor... I even recorded one song on my CD with it...

Bobert