My father had an Orlando 305, he bought it in 1969 from a shop in Seattle by UW. He said he paid $400 for it then, the shop owner was very fond of this particular guitar. He recalled that "Paul Simon played an Orlando..." I haven't verified this, but its a fun story. He said the back and sides are solid Rosewood, I bet the top is too. There are no brand markings on the guitar other than a simple identification sticker visible through the sound hole. He recalled being directed to the small shop by the wife of the pastor who married him and my mom. The pastors wife was apparently a guitar player, and quite good. He bought the guitar from a girl who worked at the shop named Miriam, who "as I recall, was jewish, and a phenomenal guitar player."

My inspection of the guitar shows no flaws, it has some wear from age. The inside is very clean. My dad thought the top was Ash, but I feel it may be spruce... not sure though. The top is a really nice piece of wood. Rosewood fingerboard, peghead overlay with a "zipper" style inlay down the middle of the slotted headstock. The original tuners are silver with white tuning buttons, facing backwards from the front of the headstock. I believe the binding is rosewood as well. The rosette is simple, maybe a decal... but hard to be 100% sure of that, the finish appears to raise only by 100ths of an inch over the inlay/decal. It looks very nice, regardless. The bridge is rosewood with a small amount of inlay decorating it to match the sound hole and peghead.

I'll never sell this guitar. But sometimes it is the story behind the instrument that makes it special. Maybe helpful to someone, maybe not.