Your most prized guitar

Subject: RE: Your most prized guitar
From: Midchuck
Date: 24 Mar 02 - 11:48 AM

My Collings D2H that I bought from Jack Lawrence over the flatpick list. It was played on every major concert stage in the country, when he appeared with Doc Watson, from about '93 through '99. Has a ding on the front where he ran it into a lavatory while guiding Doc into the bathroom backstage. If you have the "Doc and Dawg" video, you can see it.

It is not the one that gets played most, though. That's the 000-15S, at this point.

Peter.

Subject: RE: Your most prized guitar
From: DonMeixner
Date: 24 Mar 02 - 11:42 AM

1963 Guild F-30

1073 Martin 0-16NY

1973 Yamaha FG-180 Red Label

2001 Martin JC-16

On a scale of one to 10 there is only 1/100 of a point between any of them, the Guild being a 10.

Subject: RE: Your most prized guitar
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 24 Mar 02 - 11:36 AM

My first real guitar... my cedar top Seagull S6... I've had her now for 12 or 15 years at least... Cut my musical teeth on her... her frets are worn nearly flat... her face is scratched and worn and dinged, and I know where each and every one came from... I pulled the crappy "Shadow" magnetic pickup out of her and now she sits beside the sofa, tuned down a semi tone...

No guitar I've ever played sounds better than my old girl...

"I've got an old guitar won't ever stay in tune
I like the way it sounds in a dark and empty room"
--Stuff That Works--

Subject: RE: Your most prized guitar
From: Bullfrog Jones
Date: 24 Mar 02 - 11:30 AM

A 1963 Gretsch Chet Atkins Country Gentleman (picture George Harrison -- he had one at the time). Trouble is I rarely play it because I don't like taking it out to gigs!

Subject: RE: Your most prized guitar
From: Lane
Date: 24 Mar 02 - 12:06 AM

Well.... I own a Martin, a Guild and an old Yamaha FG-140.... the Yamaha is not the finest, but it is certainly the most prized to me because of the memories that it holds... years ago I was playing it while camping in the Oregon desert and lost a bridge peg in the sand... I replaced it with a piece of Juniper brush, which is still there today.... things like that. And, besides, it actually sounds almost as nice as the others!

Subject: RE: Your most prized guitar
From: 53
Date: 23 Mar 02 - 11:03 PM

Sorcha what's your most prized instrument?

Subject: RE: Your most prized guitar
From: Sorcha
Date: 23 Mar 02 - 11:00 PM

Sorry, BOB, but the answer is none. Our only guitar is a $3.00 yard sale Global classical style which has been strung with steels. It's hung on the wall for 20 years now. One broken tuning peg that needs pliers or vice grips to tune.

Have nylon strings, just have never bothered to change them or fix the peg because nobody here plays guitar.

Subject: Your most prized guitar
From: 53
Date: 23 Mar 02 - 10:21 PM

I have a Gibson J-40 that I bought brand new in 1979, and it is my most prized guitar, what are your thoughts on your most prized guitar?