The last thing I won was a L-O-N-G time ago. It was a raffle at the Old Town School Of Folk Music in Chicago. their store, the Old Town Folklore Center, had a guitar that was literally too expensive to sell---so the raffled it off. The 500 tickets were $3.00 each. I bought 3 of them--and I won. That guitar has been my main instrument ever since 1976. In recent years I just about destroyed it when I closed the trunk on it. Jan Burda did an amazing job putting it back together. It looks better than ever now. This was the guitar I converted from a 6-string guitar to a 9-string when my hands were going numb.

Oh, it was a bicentennial commmemorative limited edition Martin guitar. They made 1,976 of the D-76 model.

Art Thieme