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Thread #77409   Message #2255875
Posted By: GUEST,Tony
07-Feb-08 - 09:23 AM
Thread Name: Kent Guitar
Subject: RE: Kent Guitar
I'm a collector of cheapo '60s guitars, because I love the tone and the microphonic screech. I usually take the bridge off and add something really GOOD, like a tune-o-matic or Gibson harmonica bridge, fix the intonation, adjust the truss rod and sometimes change the tuners. I've been wanting to get a three-pickup Kent for a long time, because Lou Reed and Sterling Morrison used them on the first Velvet Underground album (of course, Lou Reed and Sterling Morrison were desperately poor at the time)--I've already got my Silvertone 1484 to go with it. I don't know whether theirs was a Hagstrom-made Kent or not, though--I just know it was a three-pickup model made before 1967.