Melissa ~ sorry to hear your sad story. Sounds weird, and raises even further questions, but I won't ask.

Major thread drift:

Mention of the Guild guitar with similar model-numbers reminds me that I'll be playing a very nice old Guild acoustic, one retrofitted with a pickup, this coming Thursday evening as one of many guest-artists/duet-partners at Spencer Bohren's annual Christmas revue. Spencer won't "allow" any of us to use our own instruments if they have to be miked ~ the logistics of getting 20+ guests on and off stage without individual sound checks, tunings-up, etc., are just too daunting. Spencer has a half-dozen or so of his own guitars (lap-steel electrics as well as regular acoustics, set up in various different tunings), and I get to use his very nice Guild, which will be the designated stardard-tuned guitar for the evening's guests.

I'll sing one Dylan cover in G with Spencer's accompaniment on one of his lap-steels in open G (either Paint My Masterpiece or Lot to Laugh, Train to Cry), and then a medley of Mississippi John Hurt key-of-C numbers, with me capo-ed up two frets to allow Spencer to play along on his trusty acoustic 1951 Gibson in open-D.

It has definitely occurred to me that the Guild I'll be playing might very well be the same model used by one of my idols, someone I'll be "channelling" to the best of my ability ~ John Hurt himself. At least, it looks pretty much like what I've seem in MJH photos...